Hi David, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM, David Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "jan rinze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > Just out of curiosity, if you are not good at C or gcc then why do you > > want to build it from scratch? Tom has good windows binaries on his > > website so if necessary you can download them. > > There are updates in subversion that are not in the built downloads. I was > hoping that a later build might be more stable. > > The latest RPCemu 0.7 for Windows at > http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/download.html > has exe's dated 15/06/2007. > > Just to help me make my mind up RPCemu has just crashed on Vista, I had to > reboot to get rid of it. That was OS4.04 on the recompiler. > > > I don't think that RPCemu is the best way to start to learn about C or > GCC > > for that matter.. > > To build packages like RPCemu one does not have to get involved in C at > source level, all that is needed is to get all the tools and any > dependencies, then run the makefile. This was quite straight forward with > Linux. > This is a main difference between Linux and Windows.. Linux is an opensource environment which is by design supplied with a compiler etc.. Windows however does not come with a standard compiling environment. This therefore implies that if you want to use GCC on windows you will venture into a gray area. Both cygwin and mingw are compiler environments which neither of them are fully linux or windows compatible. The closest thing to a linux (POSIX) build environment is cygwin and the closest to windows is mingw. Both environments are far from 'ready to use'. You will need extra libraries or build them yourself to be able to build other complex applications. For example you will need the allegro libraries setup in mingw. Sorry to dissapoint, it is just not 'straight forward' or 'out of the box'. It has taken me some fiddling with the cygwin setup to get things right and never dared to change it afterwards.. Since then forgot what it was that I needed to do to setup cygwin correctly to build RPCemu. I currently only build on Linux nowadays so I can't check the changes. Regards, Jan Rinze. > > -- > David Pitt > > _______________________________________________ > Rpcemu mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu >
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