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davidgiven / cpmish

An open source sort-of CP/M 2.2 distribution.
http://cowlark.com/cpmish
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What CP/M hosted C compiler is used? #12

Closed Allisontheolder closed 4 years ago

Allisontheolder commented 4 years ago

I've tried BDS-C and SmallC and tons of error complaining of format and structure and libs. HitechTec C and Aztec C are pending. Likely can compile on the PC using SDCC but that far from native.

davidgiven commented 4 years ago

None. Everything's cross-compiled using the ACK --- see the README.md for instructions. The only ANSI C CP/M compiler I know of is Hitech C, which is unusable because it's closed-source (and now unavailable). If you know of any other ANSI C compilers I'd love to know of them.

Allisontheolder commented 4 years ago

ANSI C has a big issue it happened after CP/M so no. I can't compile ACK on a CP/M system then, A port to CP/M looks like loads of fun and unknown for resulting size at present. I have the stuff.

A tool that closed source is not an issue for someone with a license or has read the existing one. I am the former so doing it on a CP/M system has more appeal. Cross asembly on linux is less appealing.

Allisontheolder commented 4 years ago

I was talking native Z80/Zsystem not PC. What's wrong with SDCC or GCC on Linux they are open and source.

On Z80 systems I have most of the good compilers and a few are open source like SmallC and released like Hitech-c and BDS-C. Some of that is closed because the source is just plain lost. They are widely available as the distributed files (CP/M .com files).

davidgiven commented 4 years ago

Right now cpmish is intended to be cross-compiled from Linux, not self-hosted on CP/M --- maybe one day.

As for sdcc and gcc --- I used to use sdcc but I got fed up with the bugs and weird behaviour; and gcc can't generate Z80 or 8080 code. The ACK generates 8080 code (and I am also its maintainer), and was an easy drop-in replacement.

Allisontheolder commented 4 years ago

Not solvable.