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Originally Posted by bebbo
Anyway, my gcc version is an outlawed oddity for the riders of a dead horse, it's not that important.
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You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink, especially if it's dead
As I mentioned, developing software for the Amiga was always hard and arguably it never became much easier over the decades.
There is little context in the header files designed to help you make sense of what there is (the intuition header files could easily double as documentation, but the dos header files are really a mostly unordered collection of bafflement), stuff is unexplained, at times useless, at times misnamed.
Synthesizing 1.3 compatible header files from the NDK 3.1 or later header files does not necessarily lead to results which fail to work better than the original 1988 NDK 1.3 header files managed to. The only aspect in favour of the original NDK 1.3 header files is that they are fully consistent in their inconsistencies and do not raise questions with regard to how the data structures declared in later operating system revisions fit into the picture. Such are the perils of accidental time travel, I suppose
The supposedly "Right Way" to do this is to learn on the job what you could do with the 'C' development environment of yore (which includes the operating system documentation, of course), as it was in 1987/1988 and explore, gradually, how this environment changed over the years. How did we get from 1.3 to 2.0, then to 3.0 and so forth? What APIs are available, which data structures were introduced, etc. but who has that much time... Hint: The "Amiga Developer CD 2.1" contains all of the material to get you started if you want to dig in and learn not just how to ride a dead horse, but to also make it drink and tell rude jokes, wearing a funny hat and smoking a cigarette.
Changes made to header files which were never intended to evolve or allow for patching are bound to require explanations as far as side effects and humorous details are concerned. Caveat emptor: somebody will have to explain this. Developing software for the Amiga was always hard, and every time somebody makes the effort to not make it harder should be appreciated. You do not have to justify the effort.