[MiNT] SV: FreeMiNT binaries and CPU specific versions

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

> From: Vincent Rivière [vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr]
> Sent: 2011-07-14 21:26:37 MEST
> To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT binaries and CPU specific versions
> 
> Changing the architecture is almost a nonsense, but testing a newer beta 
> kernel is very common. Ideally, the daily built kernel archive should be 
> droppable somewhere then runnable from a menu item.

That would require some changes to the way MiNT locates it's sysfolder. Personally I'd like to pass the path to SYSFOLDER on mint.prg's commandline. Then you can run MiNT from "anywhere".

I've made a small tool that scans c:\mint and it's subdirectories for occurances of "mint*.pr?" and presents these in a crude menu. I then put mint.prg inside it's sysfolder and use this little tool from the autofolder to choose which kernel to run.

The problem with this approach is that there is only one 1-18-cur. I always use the latest stable *-CUR, so my little menu is of no practical use to me. Passing sysdir on mint.prg's commandline would fix this.

Jo Even