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Re: pet project idea

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Apr 20, 1999
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Norm Goundry wrote:

> I understand that both David Cuny and Pete Eberlain are familiar with
> compilers, especially LCC, which is what we have targeted as our best
> chance to many get EU shoe-horned into that Box-From-Japan.  What does it
> take to have this compiler (if it is the best choice to do this with...)
> port to the MIPS IV series of RISC chips, such as the r3000, etc.?  I know
> that the compiler is used to do this along with the 8xx86 series from
> Intel, so what more would it take?

LCC is just a C compiler (like DJGPP or Turbo C). It's not a cross
compiler, so you can't compile some C code (an Eu interpreter in this
case) to a target different than x86 (the host platform of the
compiler).

What would it take? First you need to know wich OS will the platform
come with, and second wich compilers will be available (a C compiler
will certainly be, believe me), and a very important issue are the
system call functions available (like interfacing with the video card).
Once you know that, you'll be able to build a binary that will execute
on the target platform.

Regards,
        Daniel Berstein
        daber at pair.com