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Title: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: Piru on June 06, 2010, 01:10:41 PM

The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2. This first release is officially in beta state and will be followed up by updates in the near future. Developers who would like to test the software development kit will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2.5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.

Notable features of the MorphOS SDK 2 are as follows:

• MorphED with MUI-centric quickhelp (shows syntax of MUI methods, MUI special values for an attribute, etc)
• GCC 2.95.3 compiler with AltiVec support and C++ enhancements
• GCC 4.4.4 compiler
• MUI, Reggae and System documentation in text and aguide formats
• Example source code
• Development utilities: logtool and Wipeout
• Complete GeekGadgets environment
• Easy to use installer

You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section (http://www.morphos-team.net/downloads.html)

Title: Re: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: Pyromania on June 06, 2010, 08:51:36 PM

Thsanx MorphOS Team, this will help with the development of the MorphOS version of Aladdin 4D 6.0.

Title: Re: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: kolla on June 06, 2010, 09:16:39 PM

Will it ever go beyond beta? Heh, I suppose that could be a poll :)

Title: Re: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: Thomas on June 07, 2010, 11:31:43 AM

Is it possible to access the SDK files if you are not sitting in front of a MorphOS machine? Can the sdk.pack file somehow be unpacked without the supplied installer tool?

Title: Re: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: Piru on June 07, 2010, 01:29:17 PM

Quote from: Thomas;563245

Is it possible to access the SDK files if you are not sitting in front of a MorphOS machine? Can the sdk.pack file somehow be unpacked without the supplied installer tool?

Certainly. It's a tar.xz file.

With recentish tar (and with xz-utils installed):

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tar -Jxf sdk.pack

With old tar (but with xz-utils installed):

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tar --use-compress-program=xz -x -f sdk.pack

Or if everything else fails, do it in two steps:

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xz --decompress < sdk.pack | tar -xf -


If your system doesn't have xz-utils, you can always build it yourself from the source: http://tukaani.org/xz/

Title: Re: Beta Release of MorphOS Software Development Kit 2
Post by: Thomas on June 07, 2010, 02:43:23 PM

Great! Knowing what it is made it easy: 7-zip 9.14 can open it. Tried 4.65 before which didn't work.