syn68k/README
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Syn68k has not been actively worked on since about 1995. A few mods
have been made here and there to keep up with changes in gcc.
My email address is still <ctm@ardi.com>, although ARDI itself is
defunct. I get a ridiculous amount of spam and will quite possibly
not see email addressed to me.
For a few years I've been meaning to verify that the code builds,
write a little documentation, explain a little history, maybe even set
up a mailing list for people, etc... but other things have always
taken precedence.
I have just made some mods so that Syn68k will compile on a Fedora 9
i386 system (gcc 4.3.0-8). Unfortunately the resultant libsyn68k.a
does not work with Executor.
If I build gcc 4.1.2 from scratch and use that to compile syn68k. I
can then use Executor (whether it's built using 4.1.2 or 4.3.0). It
also works with a stock gcc 4.2.4.
A stock 4.3.3 fails, so most likely something was changed in 4.3 that
causes problems. Most likely a combination of looking at the
documentation (what's changed, what new command line switches) and
playing with .o files will be sufficient to allow me to find a fix.
To compile syn68k, try
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
or if you want to use a non-standard gcc, try something like (assumes
you've built gcc 4.2.4 configured with --prefix=/usr/gcc424):
./autogen.sh
CC=/usr/gcc424/bin/gcc CC_FOR_BUILD=/usr/gcc424/bin/gcc ./configure
make
make install
June 3rd, 2009