Re: [ooc-compiler] Im new here and need 1st help

[Stewart G. <sgr...@ip...>]

Ulrich Schmidt wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Greenhill" <sgr...@ip...>
> Cc: <ooc...@li...>
> > > oo2c compiles oo2c.  There are no other options ;-)
> > gcc? ;-)
> > You can compile oo2c under win98 using the cygnus tools
> > (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/). Once you've bootstrapped oo2c with
> the
> > C compiler, it will compile itself.
> Thanks for the tip.  I will try it.
> 
> > But of course, you can target almost any CPU with the C back end and the
> > appropriate C compiler. However, oo2c does not cross-compile in its
> > standard configuration.
> My goal is, to compile ooc to run directly under epoc on the ARM7100.
> but there is no c compiler on this tool. There is only a Psion-SDK. which
> runs on win9x for cross compiling epoc binarys. I am dreaming a convinient
> 1 step, fire and forget compiler running on epoc itself (like turbo pascal
> under
> dos). Thats why i try to create the ARM7xxx backend.

Do you really want to run a compiler on a PDA? I would have thought that
the lack of a reasonable screen, keyboard, mouse, file-system, etc. would
make it quite hard to use as a development platform.

Cheers,
  Stewart