Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:32:24 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lcc: anyone wants another C compiler? Message-ID: <3E0F77F8.6000304@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20021229193755.16086.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021229193755.16086.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>
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Yes, FreeBSD and Linux ports are necessary for more efficient development of SciTech's SDD (SciTech Display Doctor) for X universal video adapter driver to get off the ground. The "nucleus" of the driver is a PE excutable that is the same across all platforms. The rest of the driver infrastructure is designed to load the PE excutable and use it's code to operate the video adapter. Currently, this works well only for OS/2 and WinDoze because WATCOM already works on these two platforms. SciTech is involved in the OpenWatcom Project to keep their prefered compiler going and simplify their tool chains. The same is also true for SciTech's MGL graphics library. jmc Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >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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