Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program.
If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY? What does that do? Do you seen what I mean? Why is there a CYGWIN? ... and what's that other one MINGW ... or some such? Why do those exist? regards, Richard Erlacher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Swayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
