Writing device drivers in VBCC?

plasmab · 14 January 2018, 11:09

Hey folks,

Are there any examples of writing devices using VBCC. I have seen some GCC stuff and i'm happy with that for now but i prefer using vbcc for my toolchain because its far easier to get running (and will run on low end classic machines).

Anyways thanks for any help in this area.

phx · 14 January 2018, 15:25

I don't know if anybody has already written a device driver with vbcc, but it should be straightforward as vbcc is quite compatible to standard Amiga compilers, like SAS/C.

A device is not so different from a library. It's probably easiest to write the resident structure and the function table in assembler.

Attached you find an example library, which I wrote about 14 years ago in pure C with vbcc. Might be a good starting point.

nogginthenog · 14 January 2018, 15:35

There's this on Aminet too:
http://aminet.net/package/dev/src/vbcc-librarytemplate

Template for implementing an Amiga shared library in VBCC

plasmab · 14 January 2018, 16:17

thanks for the pointers. I havent found many C only drivers. Just the mntsd one and thats fully gcc. vbcc got huffy with it. will report my results.

14 January 2018, 11:09	#1
plasmab Banned Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: UK Posts: 2,917	Writing device drivers in VBCC? Hey folks, Are there any examples of writing devices using VBCC. I have seen some GCC stuff and i'm happy with that for now but i prefer using vbcc for my toolchain because its far easier to get running (and will run on low end classic machines). Anyways thanks for any help in this area.

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14 January 2018, 15:35	#3
nogginthenog Amigan Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: London Posts: 1,309	There's this on Aminet too: http://aminet.net/package/dev/src/vbcc-librarytemplate Template for implementing an Amiga shared library in VBCC

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plasmab Banned Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: UK Posts: 2,917	thanks for the pointers. I havent found many C only drivers. Just the mntsd one and thats fully gcc. vbcc got huffy with it. will report my results.

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