hi frieder -- frieder wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > along those lines, has anyone been successful at running the Keil > > compiler .exe pieces under Wine? i did the experiment at one point, > > and got the compiler to run, but since i hadn't configured a license > > key (i didn't want to disturb my existing license, and i only had one, > > of course) the compiler wouldn't create object files. i'm curious as > > to whether anyone else has run it this way and gotten a working executable. > > Hi, > > I have to prepend that the information I'm giving here is > sketchy and in parts almost certain to be either misleading > or plain wrong. Sorry for that. > > If you read on, expect nothing.
:-) > > There are at least three scenarios of wine usage: > > a) using wine (in the sense of wine only) > > b) using wine making use of DLLs of an existing windows > installation > > c) using wine making use of DLLs of an existing windows > installation and having rw access to files/directories > or the root filesystem of an existing windows installation. > (please excuse if my wording does not match a windows > mindset) > > If you fear disturbing an existing Keil license you're probably > using c). Which might be dangerous (no intention to spread FUD). > > While using a) is in my view preferred you could safely use b) > if you mount the windows installation read-only. actually, i believe when i tried it i was doing a). it was a while ago, but since my windows libraries were all inside a vmware image that it cumbersome to get things in and out of, i'm pretty sure i'd remember if i'd had to transfer a bunch of libraries. but, as i said, the compiler didn't actually finish its job, so it may be that i'll have to move to b) or c) if this is ever to work. > > I cannot comment on b) or c) because I do not have installed > a reasonably recent Windows installation at home (ie. no Vista, > no XP, no Win2k). > > > I had some success using scenario a) with an ancient evaluation > version (7.01 ek51v701.exe) of Keil downloaded here: > ftp://ftp.phytec.de/pub/product/Keil_IDE/C51/ > > What did I do? > I renamed my .wine folder > I ran winecfg clicking through all its defaults > I ran wine ek51v701.exe > there was a complaint there. > I ran cp ek51v701.exe .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ > (knowing that this is not what I'd really want to do) > I ran wine ek51v701.exe again and the installation completed > I then ran wine .wine/drive_c/Keil/C51/BIN/c51.exe c/main.c > and arrived at: > > ---8<------ > C51 COMPILER V7.01 - SN: Eval Version > COPYRIGHT KEIL ELEKTRONIK GmbH 1987 - 2002 > > C51 COMPILATION COMPLETE. 0 WARNING(S), 0 ERROR(S) > --->8------ > with a main.OBJ and main.LST file being generated. this is excellent news. thank you. > But why should I (or anyone) give support for a competing > compiler that i certainly don't expect support for the Keil compiler from this list, believe me! i only thought to ask because (given the list traffic lately) the list moderation standards here are clearly pretty loose :-), and more seriously, i figured someone here (i.e. "linux developers of embedded micro code") might have tried it. many thanks for sharing your prior experience. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
