17-May-00 09:28 you wrote:
I was wondering if it was possible to get gpc to compile for the palmos.
Probably.
I have downloaded the gcc to compile for the palmos. I have absolutely no knowledge of gcc, I.E. how it works.
I know that gpc should run on any machine where gcc runs on. Is this correct for all intense purposes? So in theory I should be able to compile gpc to to run on windows and compile the code into a palmos format. I have read and sort of understood the documentation.
GPC and GCC have common backend. So yes, if GCC can create code for some platform GPC also should. If you'll not trigger bug in backend, that is :-)
The problems that I face are the following. Where do I get the source code for gcc (The palm version only gives the updated source files)
Not even patches but updates files ??? Quite silly. Anyway. gcc is available from http://gcc.gnu.org/ ...
I have found what seem to be the files for gcc. But the file names mean nothing to me. Confusion rules here for me????
Not much. In *nix-world you just need to follow instructions from INSTALL file. For Windows... I'm not know how to compile gcc and gpc there...
Which files do I need, and which don't I. The same for gpc. Where do I get the latest source for gpc. I have searched but to no avail. The exe's are easy enough to find.
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/
You need latest ALPHA (not beta) for gcc 2.95.x
How do I then compile gpc to create palmos files.
I use windows and my platform for development.
I have a good knowledge of pascal, and I am able to convert the palmos headers to pascal. But this is ofcourse to no avail if I can't get the compiler to compile these sources.
I have noticed that gpc itself is quite old. Is this correct. If so, is gpc still been maintained?
It is. Latest alpha works quite nice for but there are enough glitches (thus alpha status) :-/
Any help would be appreciated.