Thanks for your efforts. People don't often appreciate how much knowledge and effort goes into successful compilation of code.
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 3:15 PM Erich Wälde <ew.fo...@nassur.net> wrote: > Hello Brian and Mark, > > very nice to see emails on this list :) > > Compiling amforth with avra? > > I have made numerous experiments a long time ago and again more > recently. If memory serves me well: > - Amforth had been good with avra, at least in the 4.x range. > - However, avrasm2.exe could do more clever tricks, and Matthias > started using those. > - I did make a fork of amForth from Version 5.0, this can be > assembled with avra, see: > https://git.sr.ht/~ew/hbv3_am50forth > - avra received a bit of attention not so long ago (same repo > you found): > https://github.com/Ro5bert/avra > > $ avra --version > > AVRA: advanced AVR macro assembler (version 1.4.2) > which among other changes now includes my favourite atmega644p. > > So, I am currently dabbling with my fork again in the hope to > eventually catch that problem of long term stability. There is > absolutely no reason, why I have to reprogram one or two of my > controllers a few times per year, because they do not start up > after a power cycle, which in turn is done, because the > communication with that controller ceases to work. I went back > to amforth 5.0 for simplicity reasons. > > > All that being said, I would be very interested to see the > changes, maybe, just maybe we can fix the amForth source tree > enough to make avra happy. > > > Cheers, > Erich > > Brian K Navarette <bknavare...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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 > > > -- > May the Forth be with you ... > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
