Re: Ok lets get back on track

[David Given <dg@cowlark.com>]

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Hans wrote:
[...]
> Another suggestion is to use ACK. This has the added advantage that we
> can target different microcontroller/processors something which might
> boost the popularity of ELKS. David Given is working on (or has
> completed? ) resurrecting this compiler. See
> http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-8086@vger.kernel.org/1939852.html
> for a trail of old messages.

Still going; it's a slow, tedious process. I'm currently rewriting the build
system from scratch to make it, like, actually maintainable. This has,
unfortunately, require writing a build tool to do it! It tends to move on in
fits and starts as I gain/lose interest.

However, the version on the website with the old build system
(http://tack.sf.net) *does* build and run on Linux. The only trouble with it
is that it doesn't know how to produce ELKS binaries, so someone would have to
write a binary format converter to do that (and produce an ELKS syscall
library). This wouldn't be much work, seeing as how ELKS uses Minix binaries
which the ACK does know how to make, but would still need someone to actually
do it... volunteers?

(The ACK will, if you ask it to, compile Fortran, Pascal, K&R C, ANSI C,
Occam, Basic and Modula 2 for any platform it supports; so if someone *were*
to do that, you suddenly gain a whole bunch of new supported languages.)

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