David, Thank you for your reply.
The Andreas install was great. It looked like it was going to take days downloading all the appropriate bits and configuring them. Once the Andreas web page was given to me, setup it took only minutes to get things working. Thanks again Andreas! > you can follow the same instructions. Make sure you have all the parts you > need from Cygwin (run Cygwin's setup, and check that the parts are > installed) - gcc, binutils, cvs. (There are several nice graphic cvs > programs available for windows, including one that integrates with explorer, > but for something like this then the command-line version with Cygwin works > perfectly). I still do not understand the Cygwin setup. It does not seem very intuitive too me yet. I have run it several times.It took several minutes to install and I now have the bash shell and other utilities. However, it did not appear to install any GCC or CVS files. Can you please reccomend a GUI CVS? One that integrates with the File Explorer would be great. >There are several users (like me) who have automated regular > re-builds of msp430 gcc, for those who like to be on the cutting edge > (although Andreas updates his builds regularly too, especially for important > fixes). If you have the time to try it, give it a shot - even if you don't > get things working straight away, you'll learn something. And come back to > us when you have problems, and we'll try and help you out. I will want to build the compiler eventually when I have time. In addition to learning the GCC toll set better I would like to learn more about how a compiler can optimizes code for a particular machine. I have seen some 8-bit compilers such as a the ByteCraft C 6805 compiler that was often very impressive in the generation of tight hand-tuned-like assembly. I have always been curious about how that is done. In ByteCraft's case, the developer told me they used some kind of artificial intelligence or expert system. Thanks for your help, -Ed
