Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:37:55 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lcc: anyone wants another C compiler? Message-ID: <20021229193755.16086.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E0F3743.90904@yahoo.com>
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The Homepage (http://www.openwatcom.org/) mentions that Linux and FreeBSD ports are planned. cheers, Pedro. --- John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> ha scritto: > I have no opinion on devel/lcc . . . :) > > However, it is interesting to note: > > 1) OpenWatcom's binary patch 11.0c was released 24 > December 2002; > 2) After downloading it for my OS/2 system, I > discovered that WLINK and > associated tools are now ELF enabled and now default > to DWARF debugging > format instead of WATCOM's proprietary format; > > Since the sources have evolved from a respected > commercial compiler with > a reputation for code quality, this looks like an > interesting project. > I think it would involve: > > 1) making the compiler itself truly turnout ELF > objects (don't know how > well it does that now); > 2) convert the build to ELF native; > 3) merge the libc's; > 4) build compatibility stub programs to call the > OpenWatcom utilities > with *NIX switches; > 5) release the result as a port; > > jmc > ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Cellulari: scarica i loghi e le suonerie per le tue feste! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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