Dave McGuire wrote: > On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Richard Erlacher wrote: > >> Further there's so much discussion of various ways and things-to- >> install to >> make Windows look like *nix. Is that necessary, and, if so, why? >> > ... > >> Why doesn't this stuff work with normal DOS commands? >> > > You do realize that SDCC is UNIX software, right? If you want to > run it on a platform other than that which it is intended to support, > you might have to jump through a hoop or two. If that's difficult, > find a UNIX box. If THAT is difficult, let me know and I'll give you > an account on one of mine. > > -Dave > I run SDCC under Windows XP with no problems, I always have. The only thing I need to be conscious of is which way the slashes in my paths face. When I started out, I read the manual, tried issuing the commands listed and they worked as advertised.
I mentioned using MSYS and GNU make in an earlier post. I mentioned them because they make my life easier by providing more flexible command line tools I can use while doing my builds. They aren't mandatory, by any means. Plain old DOS works fine, as long as you don't want backtick expansion, globbing, and all the nifty command line utilities that *nix folk take for granted. I used SDCC for over a year before using anything but cmd.exe, standard DOS batch files, and Microsoft NMAKE. SDCC is UNIX and Linux software. In my experience, SDCC is also Windows software. --Mark Swayne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
