Hello Mark, Brian, Erich, George Thank you! A very welcome set of messages on a bank holiday weekend. For non-windows users having avra as the assembler in the build chain would go along way in making AmForth more approachable and maintainable.
I think this is the repo for avra that does not have the macro/ parenthesis issue you mention[1] https://github.com/srtlg/avra/tree/development I downloaded it and built it on macOS (requiring only typing 'make') and updated the AmForth Makefile to run arva. The updated makefile built the hex files for an uno with AmForth 6.9. I did not experience any issues with d0< but I recall there were some changes in that area between 6.8 and 6.9. I've not flashed it yet as I have to dig out an uno from storage but the hex files are the same size and with zero diffs when compared with my previous wine/avrasm32 builds. -rw-r--r-- 1 tw staff 29346 26 Aug 17:53 uno.hex -rw-r--r-- 1 tw staff 29346 26 Aug 16:29 save.hex -rw-r--r-- 1 tw staff 239 26 Aug 17:53 uno.eep.hex -rw-r--r-- 1 tw staff 239 26 Aug 16:29 save.eep.hex Best wishes, Tristan [1] https://github.com/Ro5bert/avra/issues/54 On 25Aug23 17:12, George Herzog wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
