GCC 6.2 toolchain for AmigaOS 3

[Samurai_Crow]

Do I see GCC 6.5.0b running in AmigaOS in that screenshot?

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Do I see GCC 6.5.0b running in AmigaOS in that screenshot?

Your eyes didn't lie...
... and in WinUae you don't drown on coffee while waiting, but on a A1200...
/shrug


luckily no one else would try this on a real Amiga!

[Samurai_Crow]

@bebbo Do you count an Apollo Vampire to be a "real Amiga"?

[tolkien]

Or an Amiga with PiStorm!

[cdh]

@bebbo, I think what @Samurai_Crow and @tolkien are hinting at is that we would all love to also see a modern native gcc for the Amiga!

[Samurai_Crow]

Agreed! How much RAM is needed?

[bebbo]

@bebbo Do you count an Apollo Vampire to be a "real Amiga"?

depends on your religion...

Or an Amiga with PiStorm!

... next religion please...

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Agreed! How much RAM is needed?

The compiler is a ~10MB executable, for a simple hello world 32MB did work.

@bebbo, I think what @Samurai_Crow and @tolkien are hinting at is that we would all love to also see a modern native gcc for the Amiga!

Hm, maybe I'll never make a real release version, but I give you a taste:
https://franke.ms/download/amiga68.zip


1. unpack
2. add the ndk includes, e.g. built via amiga-gcc
3. assign GCC: to that folder
4. add GCC:bin to the path

[paraj]

Something good is clearly happening


Having a bit of difficulties getting it to work in WinUAE and with include files, but this is very cool. Even if you're cross-compiling being able to use the same compiler on the target is very helpful for small tweaks.

Keep up the good work!

[nogginthenog]

Could be worse. 19 seconds to build a hello world on my 68060 :-)
(14 if I disable mungwall.)

[boemann]

Wow a modern gcc on a real amiga - a dream came true - and in this context i do consider vampire, pistorm and uae as real amigas.

Please make this a real release - we are a lot of people wishing for this

[nyteshade]

Amazing. Cannot wait to try it. So much good.

[BSzili]

I was wondering, did you have a chance to try this? There's no need for AmigaOS 3.9, for me it's 100% reproducible in WinUAE with 3.1 ROMs, if I run the executable without startup-sequence from a mounted directory. Hardfiles seem to be OK, FAT32 CF cards have the same problem, so it might be file system specific.

[BSzili]

I understand this is not a libnix issue, but it still crashes for me even after rebuilding everything from scratch. It prevents the stack swap from working for others as well, so I can't give up now. I'll keep working on finding a way to reproduce it on your side.

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by BSzili

I understand this is not a libnix issue, but it still crashes for me even after rebuilding everything from scratch. It prevents the stack swap from working for others as well, so I can't give up now. I'll keep working on finding a way to reproduce it on your side.

So maybe it's better to drop that function from libnix.

[BSzili]

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that, you always fixed whatever I came up with. It's my fault for not being able to pinpoint this, but I believe I managed to do it now. I made a portable package with WinUAE, everything is self-contained. Just launch RunMe.bat and I'll load up the config and everything:

http://bszili.morphos.me/stuff/stacktest.zip

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by boemann

Wow a modern gcc on a real amiga - a dream came true - and in this context i do consider vampire, pistorm and uae as real amigas.

Please make this a real release - we are a lot of people wishing for this

first, a clear statement from Hyperion regarding the NDK is needed, otherwise this cannot be built.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by bebbo

first, a clear statement from Hyperion regarding the NDK is needed, otherwise this cannot be built.

Concerning what?

[alkis]

Originally Posted by BSzili

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that, you always fixed whatever I came up with. It's my fault for not being able to pinpoint this, but I believe I managed to do it now. I made a portable package with WinUAE, everything is self-contained. Just launch RunMe.bat and I'll load up the config and everything:

https://bszili.morphos.me/stuff/stacktest.zip

FYI, the link doesn't work. (At least it doesn't work for me)

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by bubbob42

Concerning what?

redistribution.


a ready to use compiler should provide the necessary headers.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by bebbo

a ready to use compiler should provide the necessary headers.

Or a script, which simply pulls the NDK from Aminet and installs it. The NDK is freely available, not dependant on Hyperion (which is important to us).

What you request was an absolute necessity in 1988, but not today. It is much better to always fetch the latest NDK release at installation or even update it easily for an existing installation of the compiler. This would fit with our plan to release incremental NDK updates instead of bigger ones every decade.

However, for this to work out it has be be ensured by all of us, that both your GCC's and the NDK's revision do not depend on each other, so users won't be left alone in case either product's development "stalls" for some time. An update of the compiler should not break the NDK and vice versa.