vbcc: no startup

[aragon]

I'm trying to figure out how to work with vbcc's minstartup.o.

If I compile the hello_min.c example from the manual, it links correctly, but when running this from CLI results in a 80000004 guru message.
I'm running under OS 3.1.

Compiler and linker are invoked with

vc -sc -sd -O2 hello_min.c -o hello_min -nostdlib $VBCC/targets/m68k-amigaos/lib/minstart.o -lamigas

Any idea what is going wrong here? Is the source file minstart.asm available?
And why do I need to link with amiga.lib? I thought that if I use pragmas and a custom _main(), amiga.lib would not be necessary?

[thomas]

You have to put minstart.o before hello_min.c in the command line. If you link without standard lib, then the first object module becomes the entry to the program. If hello_min is first, then main becomes the entry and not minstart as intended.

Given that minstart.o does not do much anyway, it's completely superfluous IMHO.

If this is your hello_min.c:

#include <proto/exec.h>

#define __NOLIBBASE__
#include <proto/dos.h>

struct Library *DOSBase;

int main (void)

{
if (DOSBase = OpenLibrary ("dos.library",36))
	{
	Printf ("Hello World!\n");

	CloseLibrary (DOSBase);
	}

return (RETURN_OK);
}

then this is my hello_min_min.c which links well without minstart.o:

#define __NOLIBBASE__
#include <proto/exec.h>
#include <proto/dos.h>

struct Library *SysBase;
struct Library *DOSBase;

__saveds
int main (void)

{
SysBase = *((struct Library **)4);

if (DOSBase = OpenLibrary ("dos.library",36))
	{
	Printf ("Hello World!\n");

	CloseLibrary (DOSBase);
	}

return (RETURN_OK);
}

[aragon]

Thanks thomas, that helped a lot.

So this is now my initial program:

/* minimal startup code
vc -sc -sd -O2 $VBCC/targets/m68k-amigaos/lib/minstart.o hello_min.c -o hello_min -nostdlib  
*/

#include <proto/exec.h>
#include <proto/dos.h>

struct DosLibrary *DOSBase; 

main()
{
	if(DOSBase=(struct DosLibrary*)OpenLibrary("dos.library",0)){
		Write(Output(),"Hello, world!\n",14);
		CloseLibrary((struct Library *)DOSBase);
	}
	return 0;
}

This compiles to 232 bytes and works as expected.

I changed your version to this:

/* no startup
vc -nostdlib -sc -sd -O2 hello_min3.c -o hello_min3
*/
#define __NOLIBBASE__
#include <proto/exec.h>
#include <proto/dos.h>

struct Library *SysBase;
struct Library *DOSBase;

__saveds
int main (void){
	SysBase = *((struct Library **)4L);
	if (DOSBase =  OpenLibrary ("dos.library",0L)){
		Write(Output(),"Hello, world!\n",14); 
		CloseLibrary (DOSBase);
	}

	return (RETURN_OK);
}

This executable has only 180 bytes.

Compared with the SAS/C Example2 (124 bytes) this is fine.