Using GCC for developmenet

Is it possible to use GCC4 for development on any of
the ROOL sources?

Is it now possible to compile RISC_OSLib for GCC4?

My setup would use the GCC4 cross compiler on cygwin
and RPCEmu for the majority of testing. Any idea if
this would be at all practical?

Thanks,
Alan

AFAIK the last person to look at this kind of stuff was Peter Naulls, and the last he worked on it was a couple of years ago. I know that some of his changes made it into CVS, but some of the more significant stuff (e.g. a script to create a symlink farm to adapt the source tree to a *nix-friendly format) still resides with him. This thread seems to contain a good discussion of all the problems being faced.

Of course things have changed a bit since then – e.g. you no longer need to merge together the ‘castle’, ‘mixed’, etc. folders in order to perform a build, and various improvements have been made to ‘as’ so that it can deal with more of objasm’s features. But the long story short is that unless you’re willing to put in the legwork yourself to get a *nix-based build system running, it doesn’t look like you’ll be able to (easily) use GCC to build any of the current components, especially if you want to do it with the cross compiler on a *nix system.

Thanks Jeffrey – I had seen the thread you mentioned and was just wondering
if anyone had done anything since then.