That is awesome news! Brian-in-ohio
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 2:59 PM Mark Roth <cablegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello AmForth. It has been some time and quite weird things since last I've > been here. I am still using AmForth with my trusty atmega1284p and learning > the language as time permits. I remember having heard talk that avra had > gotten (almost) to the point of being able to compile the source tree here. > First I tried with 1.3 I think and it failed miserably. Then I found a repo > on github (Ro5bert/avra) that seemed to almost but not quite do it. I was > getting a pile of errors for macro calls. So looking into the issues I saw > that someone had forked that repo and fixed the issue. Something to do with > not having a space between the opening parenthesis and the macro name. So I > tracked down the fix branch (srtlg/avra -b development-issue54 if I > remember correctly) and built that locally. Then substituted that avra > version with the wine one I had been using to build. > It still didn't build. Very almost, but not quite. > However, the issue was with errors in /avr8/words/d-lesszero.asm about the > Y register not being declared and/or able to be used for the adiw call. > Looking into the source tree I found other usages of y in those calls but > they were all in lower case. > Yeah, that did fix it. I'm not sure that I can flash my controller here > since I'm on summer break but it does seem promising. Or maybe I did pack > my programmer and can give it a go. The file sizes are the same or similar > but there are differences. Granted, I've made changes that may not be > represented in my working project and it may just be that. > Time will tell but it would be great to get rid of the need to use wine to > build AmForth here. > Well well well. It appears to have worked. I make install'd the whole thing > (since for some reason I did pack my usbasp and could try it out. I'm sure > more testing is needed but this really is pretty cool. > > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel > _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
