[Z88dk-users] Creating a calc loadable program

[jchristof (<jch...@gm...>]

So I've been using devpac8x.com to convert the bin output of zcc to a calc loadable file. This has been working fine. However, tonight I wanted to set up a makefile for building the examples. 

I don't know why, but calling devpac8x.com from make doesn't work (make issues an error that "binary could not be opened.") For the moment, I'm assuming that it's because devpac8x is a .com and not a .exe file, but I haven't fully investigated this yet.

In the meantime, I thought I'd use the -create-app command for zcc. When I use this command I do get an .8xp file as a product of the build, but after verifying on several of the z88dk ticalc examples, the .8xp files appear to be invalid (ti transfer refuses to send them to the calculator or the debugger refuses to load them.) I've also tried appmake externally where -make-app is on the zcc command line and appmake +ti8x -b $(OUTPUT).bin is called as a separate part of the make process. Same invalid .8xp.

Could anyone advise me on this?

Thanks.