Re: [MiNT] [Atari-coldfire] VBCC issues

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On torstai 15 marraskuu 2012, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Could you refresh my memory, what's wrong with the current VBCC when it
> comes to Atari support?

It wasn't self supporting, but required GCC + MiNTlib to build.

(Not all of MiNTlib licenses are compatible with how VBCC toolchain
was distributed (= without sources), but I guess nobody probably
checked whether any conflicting sources got built into it.)

VBCC built with VBCC had several issues on TOS like newline, path
separator & extended argument handling and missing system() call.


> I definitely used it for Starstruck port and it
> obviously runs on Atari :) I even remember supporting a.out target so you
> could mix object files from gcc and vbcc. Basically, that's what all the
> work on VBCC was about -- to make it run on Atari (I did the port in the
> same time so I had a perfect test case as the demo was coded in VBCC and
> VASM).

Did you ever test any VBCC built code on ColdFire?

(Frank would be interested to hear about that as he
doesn't have ColdFire himself.)


	- Eero