So, I was thinking about some of my general thoughts that I posted in the Amiga Game Programming thread moments ago. Part of what I want when I sit down at an Amiga these days to write code is a modern up to date version of GCC on the Amiga; including all the GNU tools to go with it.
I have never personally compiled any version of GCC, let alone one for the Amiga. I think the most recent version I have came with CubicIDE and is 3.x something. Have any of you ever compiled GCC on an Amiga or cross compiled a version for the Amiga? Is it hard?
I think the m68k code produced by version of gcc after the 3.x version now used often on AmigaOS was not good. I think only more recent gcc version have improved again due to Coldfire support.
BTW, AROS has gcc v4.6, also for m68k version. Don't know how easy it would be to make clib2 or ixemul m68k programs with it and thus not using AROS' arosc.library.
Is there anything missing? If we had these and one of the more recent builds of ixemul.library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amiga/files/ixemul.library/ then perhaps porting more and more software with the good 'ole tripple standard suite of compilation commands might be easier
sh configure
make
make install
If you make all programs portable this way it basically means you have implemented Linux on top of AmigaOS. I am not convinced that should be a target.
Programs not using any of the AmigaOS features could better be run on Linux or Windows. All IMHO of course.
greets,
Staf.
