cl65 Users Guide <author>Ullrich von Bassewitz, <tt/uz@musoftware.de/ <date>01.08.2000 <abstract>cl65 is the compile & link utility for cc65. </abstract>  <toc>  <sect>Overview cl65 is a frontend for cc65, ca65 and ld65. While you may not use the full power of the tools when calling them through cl65, most features are available, and the use of cl65 is much simpler. <sect>Basic Usage The cl65 compile and link utility may be used to compile, assemble and link files. While the separate tools do just one step, cl65 knows how to build object files from C files (by calling the compiler, then the assembler) and other things. <tscreen><verb> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usage: cl65 [options] file Short options: -A Strict ANSI mode -C name Use linker config file -Cl Make local variables static -D sym[=defn] Define a preprocessor symbol -I dir Set a compiler include directory path -Ln name Create a VICE label file -O Optimize code -Oi Optimize code, inline functions -Or Optimize code, honour the register keyword -Os Optimize code, inline known C funtions -S Compile but don't assemble and link -V Print the version number -W Suppress warnings -c Compiler and assemble but don't link -d Debug mode -g Add debug info -h Help (this text) -m name Create a map file -o name Name the output file -t sys Set the target system -v Verbose mode -vm Verbose map file Long options: --ansi Strict ANSI mode --asm-include-dir dir Set an assembler include directory --debug Debug mode --debug-info Add debug info --help Help (this text) --include-dir dir Set a compiler include directory path --target sys Set the target system --version Print the version number --verbose Verbose mode --------------------------------------------------------------------------- </verb></tscreen> Most of the options have the same meaning than the corresponding compiler, assembler or linker option. See the documentation for these tools for an explanation. If an option is available for more than one of the tools, it is set for all tools, where it is available. One example for this is <tt/-v/: The compiler, the assembler and the linker are all called with the <tt/-v/ switch. There are a few remaining options that control the behaviour of cl65: <descrip> <tag><tt>-S</tt></tag> This option forces cl65 to stop after the assembly step. This means that C files are translated into assembler files, but nothing more is done. Assembler files, object files and libraries given on the command line are ignored. <tag><tt>-c</tt></tag> This options forces cl65 to stop after the assembly step. This means that C and assembler files given on the command line are translated into object files, but there is no link step, and object files and libraries given on the command line are ignored. <tag><tt>-o name</tt></tag> The -o option is used for the target name in the final step. This causes problems, if the linker will not be called, and there are several input files on the command line. In this case, the name given with -o will be used for all of them, which makes the option pretty useless. You shouldn't use -o when more than one output file is created. <tag><tt>-t sys, --target sys</tt></tag> The default for this option is different from the compiler and linker in the case that the option is missing: While the compiler and linker will use the "none" system settings by default, cl65 will use the C64 as a target system by default. This was choosen since most people seem to use cc65 to develop for the C64. </descrip> <sect>More usage Since cl65 was created to simplify the use of the cc65 development package, it tries to be smart about several things. <itemize> <item> If you don't give a target system on the command line, cl65 defaults to the C64. <item> When linking, cl65 will supply the names of the startup file and library for the target system to the linker, so you don't have to do that. <item> If the final step is the linker, and the name of the output file was not explicitly given, cl65 will use the name of the first input file without the extension, provided that the name of this file has an extension. So you don't need to name the executable name in most cases, just give the name of your "main" file as first input file. </itemize> <sect>Examples The morse trainer software, which consists of one C file (morse.c) and one assembler file (irq.s) will need the following separate steps to compile into an executable named morse: <tscreen><verb> cc65 -g -Oi -t c64 morse.c ca65 -g morse.s ca65 -g irq.s ld65 -t c64 -o morse c64.o morse.o irq.o c64.lib </verb></tscreen> When using cl65, this is simplified to <tscreen><verb> cl65 -g -Oi morse.c irq.s </verb></tscreen> As a general rule, you may use cl65 instead of cc65 at most times, especially in makefiles to build object files directly from C files. Use <tscreen><verb> .c.o: cl65 -g -Oi $< </verb></tscreen> to do this. <sect>Bugs/Feedback If you have problems using the utility, if you find any bugs, or if you're doing something interesting with it, I would be glad to hear from you. Feel free to contact me by email (<htmlurl url="mailto:uz@cc65.org" name="uz@cc65.org">). <sect>Copyright cl65 (and all cc65 binutils) are (C) Copyright 1998-2000 Ullrich von Bassewitz. For usage of the binaries and/or sources the following conditions do apply: This software is provided 'as-is', without any expressed or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: <enum> <item> The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. <item> Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. <item> This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. </enum> </article>