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?
It seems in order to more easily port software out on the web these days we'd need to have a recent version of GCC (at least something in the 4.x range) and all the associated tools like automake, autoconf, etc... Finally we'd need, I think, a version of bash or sh that is somewhat recent.
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
Thoughts? Am I naive in my thoughts? Am I missing something bigger?
