Happy Christmas to You All
Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 27 Dec 2014 22:14:00 GMT
We wish you all a very merry Christmas from everyone at RISC OS Open. Keep your eyes open for our next news item to bring in the New Year…
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Sharper Tools for Crafting Code
Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:06:00 GMT
RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the immediate availability of release 25 if the Desktop Development Environment (DDE25). The DDE is the definitive set of tools you need to author applications for RISC OS, and indeed to build the operating system itself.
A considerable effort has been made to bring the DDE, C/C++, and Toolbox manuals back up to date. The Toolbox manual was last edited in 1994, so has some 20 years of catch up!
The examples provided are now clearer, and make extensive use of the shared makefile scheme, which drastically simplifies building the most common of application and module arrangements.
The tools themselves come with comprehensive change logs with fine level detail of bug fixes, but some of the highlights include:
- CC – the code generator can now optimise specifically for the ARM11 core, as featured on the Raspberry Pi platform, and accepts the #warning preprocessor directive to emit a throwback message
- ObjAsm – support for optional ARMv7 extensions and ARMv8 opcodes, plus stricter checking and more accurate warning reporting
- Linker – can now produce ‘Utility’ binaries directly from C object files
- DDT – the debugger now works reliably on Cortex-A platforms such as the BeagleBoard
Many of the new features and bug fixes are in direct response to
developer feedback so please keep it up!
Upgrading
Developers who have purchased a copy of DDE24 or refreshed their copy in the last 6 months will automatically receive an upgrade free of charge to their registered email address. These will be sent out over the next 7 days.
ROOL will also be attending the London show on Saturday 25th October 2014 where you can buy your copy for the special show price of £48 (inc VAT). It is also possible to refresh your copy for £24 (inc VAT) and the update will be delivered digitally after the show finishes.
The full DDE25 costs £50 (inc VAT) and can be delivered either on a fun ROOL branded memory stick in the post, or via download.
If you can’t make the show and wish to refresh your copy, simply email your developer number as described on the store page to qualify for £25 (inc VAT) half price upgrade.
NutPi users
If you have a copy of DDE as found on the NutPi product, this can be upgraded for just £12.50 (inc VAT) by sending your NutPi serial number, found by running the !PiSerial application, to the store email address. The NutPi version is almost identical to the full version, except that the tools only run on a Raspberry Pi – however the code they generate is suitable for any RISC OS computer.
RISC OS London Show 2014
Posted by Steve Revill Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:39:00 GMT
This year, we decided to celebrate the wonderful fact that our growing community of users and developers now spans every corner of the globe by asking some friends to translate our London Show announcement into a variety of languages.
Many thanks to Alberto Bonamico (Italian), James Byrne (Japanese), Jose Manuel Ventoso Picos (Spanish), Katalin Szalay (Hungarian, Romanian), Lixin Cheng (Chinese), Martin Würthner (German), Moniek Hopman (Dutch) and Tina Evans (French).
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Shellshocked?
Posted by Andrew Hodgkinson Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:39:00 GMT
Within the last couple of days, you might have heard about a really nasty security problem that’s so important it has already been given a name and an unofficial logo (!):
The server running the ROOL web site was vulnerable to this issue but has been patched, with another patch due for a secondary, much less serious aspect of the bug for which a fix is not yet available.
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