CC65 Lynx

[qberticus]

Does anyone have the CC65 archive for Lynx Development? the one on the BLL homepage is a broken link and I don't feel like trying to compile it myself. If not, are the supplemental files available to use the Atari XL version of CC65 for Lynx development?

[Matthias]

I've a ZIP-archive with the CC65 for the Lynx on my website:

http://home.t-online.de/home/Matthias.Domin/cc65.zip

 

It contains all you need, but i'm not sure if it is uptodate.

 

Happy New Year!

Matthias

[glitch]

If Matthias' link doesn't work for you, post again and I can send you my recompiled copy.

[qberticus]

I actually have his version installed, but when I try to compile and link a program, the linker gives me a bunch of errors about undefined_struct (or something similar to that), stuff that should be defined in the header files somewhere I assume.

 

Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

[Matthias]

Have you called SETTINGS.BAT?

Of course after checking the contents:

 

set path=%path%;d:developlynxcc65bin

set cc65lib=d:developlynxcc65lib

set cc65include=d:developlynxcc65include

 

 

Matthias

[qberticus]

I changed that to match my settings and I do believe they are set correctly. I will try installing the compiler onto my desktop computer and see if I can get it to work.

[glitch]

I had similar issues. I finally had to recompile the cc65 compiler using the GNU compiler. If you want to try my copy I put a link to it at http://www.mindspring.com/~mvknapp/lynx. My settings.bat file is in the root and is called cc65env.bat. You will need to modify this to match your environment. Yell if have any problems.

[glitch]

One other thing you may want to find is CYGWIN which is a unix shell that runs under windows. This will allow you to use the sprite packer program. Also ignore the cc65w.bat file in the root because I forgot to remove it from the zip file. It's there because I've been trying to modify the new windows version of cc65 w/ the modifications Bastian made to the original version.

[lucienEn]

The cc65 binaries I downloaded work on any windows OS I tried. Same for sprpck.exe (98/W2K/XP).

 

Not sure why same people have problems. However if you have compiler errors I think it's unlikely that's because of the binary.

[eric_ruck]

I never could get the version built with GCC to work, so I made some small changes to get it to compile under M$ Visual C++. At least that's what I think I did. If anyone is interested I could just .zip up my development environment and send it to you.

 

If I remember correctly when you build with GCC there was something wierd about the way environment variables worked, such that I couldn't get it to behave satisfactorily in my development environment (W2K/XP Pro). Don't remember exactly what the issue was.

 

My dev environment still requires cygwin in order to run all of the other components, including make. I use Textpad as an editor, and actually code sprites by hand, in hex.

 

Eric

[glitch]

I'm not sure why mine didn't work. It wouldn't recognize the basic structures such as int or char. I recompiled and ended up using borland's make to put it all together, after adjusting the .mak files. I didn't recompile the sprite packer or other utilities. The versions that I pulled down just happened to be the unix versions and they seem to work fine for me so I haven't bothered getting other ones or remaking them. I use Borland C++ 5.0 as my editor since it does the color syntax checking for me. Once I'm done I save the files and compile them using cc65. So far it works like a charm.