AW: [Sdcc-user] Newest versions and Makefiles on win

[<MSoegtrop@Michael-Soegtrop.de>]

Dear all,

If you like, i would voulunteer to make and maintain the changes
required to make SDCC compilable under cygwin with MSVC as C-compiler,
so that for running the resulting SDCC, no cygwin/mingw is required. For
compiling SDCC, cygwin might still be required, but maybe it is even
possible to compile SDCC without using cygwin (e.g. just with nmake).
For GCC this does not work, because the make files make extensive use of
the unix shell, but it works fine to comile GCC using cygwin and MSVC as
C-compiler, so that the resulting gcc runs on plain windows. I think
this would help a lot of the useres that have to use Windows.

The only thing required in the makefiles is to put the extension of
object files (usually .o but .obj with MSVC) and executables (usually
empty but .exe with MSVC) in shell variables, so that this can easily be
switched. This does not make the make files nicer, (e.g. you have
file.%OX% instead of file.o everywhere) but it works. Besides this,
usually some minor changes in C header file names or folders are
required. For the resuling code, i never had problems. In the end C is
an ANSI standard and for non GUI applications it is usually not reuired
to use system specific functions. An alternative is to use
sed/awk/perl/shell scripts to transform the makefiles and sources
accordingly. For GCC this is my prefered method, but is a bit akward to
maintain.

What do you think ?

Best regards,

Michael

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> > > I'm at a win98SE machine with cygwin and mingw32-sdcc, if I use my
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