[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT for 21st century

Mark Duckworth mduckworth at atari-source.org
Thu Jan 12 17:40:09 MSK 2017


I actually build freemint on an atari TT for what it's worth ;)

Thanks,
Mark


On 01/12/2017 09:07 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Den 12.01.2017 14:38, skrev Vincent Rivière:
> 
>> My dream was to automatic rebuilds of the whole FreeMiNT distribution,
>> including kernel, MiNTLib, bash, coreutils, etc. when anything is
>> updated. Then automatically produce a hard drive image ready to be used
>> with an emulator, or to be written on a real disk. Thanks to your work,
> 
> I'm actually doing this with VanillaMiNT (in the "soon" to be released 
> version). But the implementation is very crude, I have just created a 
> script that builds each individual component (since the makefile does 
> not allow me to compile modules and tools for a specific CPU), and then 
> another script that builds a complete distribution. This distribution is 
> then either zipped or copied to an empty image file, depending on 
> target.
> 
>> I wish that we abandon the old CVS stuff and enter modernity.
> 
> Since we're already past the point were it was possible to compile 
> FreeMiNT on an actual Atari we could just as well migrate to git. And 
> someone (that's not me!) could create a Linux VM with all dev-tools set 
> up and correctly configured :)
> 


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