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Re: egcs for Macintosh ?



jens@ussenterprise.com (Jens Bauer) writes:

> Hi, I'm currently using MPW with MrCpp for the Macintosh.
> However, the many bugs in the compiler slows down our development, so
> I'm searching for a more stable
> compiler. I've downloaded the egcs 1.1.1 source, and found a
> compile-script from 1993 that is currently incompatible
> with MPW.
> Has nobody compiled egcs for MPW in 1998 or 1999 ? (with Universal
> Interfaces)

Probably not.  At one point I was actively maintaining GCC for MPW,
but then Apple abandoned MPW (temporarily, as it turned out), and I
gave up on them.  At this point the basic build machinery is still
around, though outdated - it depends on sed'ing Unix makefiles into
MPW makefiles, thus vulnerable to infrastructural changes - and the C
code patches made to a Cygnus-only version are awaiting integration
into egcs.  So far no one has stepped forward to take it up, although
it seems there are a certain number of people who are wishing someone
else would do it... :-)

> -Are there any binaries available from anywhere ?

There is an assortment of my old work at ftp.cygnus.com, in pub/mac.

> The Universal Interfaces already support GC/GCC. I assume they already
> support egcs then.

Possibly.  There used to be a lot of MPW dialect oddities that I had
to hack into GCC's frontend, although the changeover to PowerPC forced
some of those to be abandoned fortunately.

							Stan