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Re: Alternative compilers for native RCX code?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:45:28 GMT
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"Keith Miller" <kmiller@talon.net>
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It only take up like 5 megs in zip form..
I got em installed..
lemme go check the size of the tree..
118 Meg total space taken up..
-----Original Message-----
From: dave madden <dhm@paradigm.webvision.com>
To: gavin@beesknees.freeserve.co.uk <gavin@beesknees.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Alternative compilers for native RCX code?
> =>From: "Gavin Smyth" <gavin@beeskneesDOTfreeserveDOTcoDOTuk>
> =>...
> =>A brief web search for "H8" and "compiler" showed up a number of people
> =>selling, er, H8/300 compilers. One notable entry was HI-TECH Software • who
> =>have a limited eval compiler freely downloadable - see
> =>http://www.htsoft.com/software/demos.html
> =>
> =>Now, I haven't had time to go much further than merely finding this, but
> =>could it possibly be of use as a much smaller Windows based environment • than
> =>Cygwin in which to develop native code for the RCX? As it stands, it • won't
> =>be compatible with legOS because the assembler syntax is almost • certainly
> =>not the AT&T (GNU) syntax used by GCC, but it might be possible to • translate
> =>legOS appropriately.
> =>
> =>Anyone had experience of these tools already, or have time to do an
> =>investigation and tell the rest of us?
> =>
> =>Anyone know of any similar "low cost" solutions?
>
> If "low cost" is your discriminator, you can't get much less expensive
> than GCC/EGCS. The cygwin directory on an NT box I have is only about
> 32MB (add 22MB for emacs), whereas the M$VC++ directory tree on the
> same box consumes 700MB; so "small" is another word I'd apply to
> cygwin. (Of course, that copy of cygwin contains the native x86
> compiler, but I can't imagine the H8 compiler would be *that* much
> larger.)
>
> Now, I'm aware that GCC/EGCS has shortcomings, particularly as
> compared to the (expensive) native compilers on many platforms, but as
> a hobbyist on a limited budget myself, I consider the GNU compiler
> (and related development programs) to be the finest tools in my kit.
>
> BTW, I'm using egcs-1.1.1 on Linux to develop a c++ firmware
> replacement. When I get a little more functionality into it, I'll
> post details.
>
> regards,
> d.
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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