exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Currently I could only use the command line built into Gemini desktop because it's the only thing I could get to work..


But it is rather slow when compiling the whole thing from scratch and a bit off a fass TBH. But it works!

So my question is is there anything more modern which would do this work easier and quicker maybe even be more efficient compiler ?

Note that I don't really use linux on my desktop machine so a windows solution (win7 compatible) would be best for me.. I don't know if there's a web based compiler which would work or something ? No idea.

Grok say VBCC is easy for Linux, I could install it on my server I suppose.

http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vbcc/

But no updates since 2022 ...

Thorsten's TOS3x archive just works with a modern cross compiler out the box for me: https://github.com/th-otto/tos3x.

Literally git clone then type make.

I'm using Vincent's toolchain: http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/

Now I'm under Linux, but Vincent's tools apparently work under WSL. Thorston's cross dev packages are available for Cygwin and MinGW too: https://tho-otto.de/crossmint.php

There look to be three Windows-based options available, basically.

Four if you count this docker image, but I can't directly vouch for that: https://github.com/sidecartridge/ataris ... it-docker/

BW

OK I will try Vincent's stuff again. I tried it a few years ago and it just crashed all the time trying to install it so I gave up.

EDIT : yep right out of the gate problems :roll:


EDIT:

So it accepted Z:\TEMP :roll:

:shrug:



Are those the packages going to install anyway or am I supposed to select certain ones ?!

You obviously need all the base packages. :-)

Somehow you seem to have gone into expert install mode without being an expert.

You don't need the source so no need to tick those boxes, just hit the "Next" button and see what happens. :-)

stephen_usher wrote: 24 Oct 2025 11:15 You obviously need all the base packages. :-)

So do I just click next or select all the tick boxes first ?

Somehow you seem to have gone into expert install mode without being an expert.

Beats me, I posted screenshots at every step...

stephen_usher wrote: 24 Oct 2025 11:15 You don't need the source so no need to tick those boxes, just hit the "Next" button and see what happens. :-)

:2k2:


OK so I have the terminal up, now what ?

http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/

Assume install cross-mint-cygwin-20230115-setup.exe. ?

I don't like installing software suites after software suites, packages after packages on my daily driver machine (which is a Macbook) so I just have a virtual machine which I unpause when necessary.

It does my ISE dev, my 68k cross compiling dev, my CPLD flashing and if I completely screw it up: oh well, never mind. Let's spin up a new one.

It's Debian, but could as easily be one of the hand-holdy distros too.

BW

Badwolf wrote: 24 Oct 2025 11:24 I don't like installing software suites after software suites, packages after packages on my daily driver machine (which is a Macbook) so I just have a virtual machine which I unpause when necessary.

Yeah I don't really like doing that as generally these programs corrupt my computer...