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Hi all, I'm Vincent Rivière from France.
I was a happy STe user in the nineties. Later I was interested by GCC, FreeMiNT, FireBee, EmuTOS and other stuff.
Thanks to Exxos and other people to keep Atari hardware alive :)

BlankVector wrote: 23 Sep 2017 14:54 Hi all, I'm Vincent Rivière from France.

Hi Vincent and welcome to the forum :)

BlankVector wrote: 23 Sep 2017 14:54 Later I was interested by GCC

GCC? As in the Gnu C Compiler? I wasn't aware there was a GCC for Atari... on the other hand... how else would MinT come into beeing :mrgreen: Did you write software with it or where you involved in the GCC port itself?

Bienvenue Vincent.
Rodolphe

IngoQ wrote: 23 Sep 2017 15:23 GCC? As in the Gnu C Compiler?

Yes, that one ;)

IngoQ wrote: 23 Sep 2017 15:23I wasn't aware there was a GCC for Atari... on the other hand... how else would MinT come into beeing :mrgreen:

I don't know which compiler was used to compile first versions of MiNT, but I would bet it was not GCC at that time.

Anyway, GCC 2.x has been ported to FreeMiNT around year 2000 by Guido Flohr and Frank Naumann. In 2007, I have published my work on GCC 4.x. It was mainly a port of old patches to newer GCC, as well as cross-compiler binaries (i.e. use a PC to compile Atari software). Later, other people used my updated patches to produce a native GCC 4.x running on MiNT. It works fine, but requires several megabytes of RAM. Personally, I prefer to use the cross-compiler, which produces the same result.

You can see the whole story on my m68k-atari-mint cross-tools web page.

To answer your question, I have recompiled quite a lot of software for FreeMiNT (mainly GNU/Linux command-line software), but I didn't write much code myself.