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README.linux

LINUX/UNIX/OS X PLATFORM SPECIFIC NOTES FOR TIGCC:
==================================================

Note
----

The current release SHOULD WORK on all Linux/Unix platforms, including
MacOS X.
Official binaries are provided ONLY for Linux/x86, so you will need to
compile TIGCC from source on other platforms, unless an unofficial
binary is made available for your platform.


Copyright of the port:
----------------------

The following copyright applies to the compilation and to the platform-
specific tools:

TIGCC for Linux/Unix - GCC port targeting the TI89/89Ti/92+/V200
Copyright (C) 2000 Henri Moilanen
Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Romain Liévin
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Kevin Kofler
Some parts from John David Ratliff (TechnoPlaza tutorials)


History
-------

Henri Moilanen:
I like Linux. TIGCC wasn't available as a Linux version, so I had to
create it. It hadn't source included, so I couldn't do any changes,
and I had to start from scratch. Couple of days of hacking and
searching the net, TIGCC For Linux was born. But as I worked alone - I
had no hurry. It waited in the depths of my HD for a month until one
person, Leonard Stiles, posted a question whether there is a ti-gcc
for linux available.
That was the push to get the job done. Like it or don't.

Romain Liévin:
I was developing TiLP (formerly GtkTiLink) when Henri was beginning
to develop its TiGCC.
Henri and some other people asked me whether I could develop a TI
emulator for Linux. I have done it.
Now, Henri asked me to take over the development of TiGCC/Linux.
As you can see, I have accepted and I am now the official maintainer.

John David Ratliff:
Ported & tested on various UNIXes.

Kevin Kofler:
Since Romain no longer had the time to work on TIGCC for Linux, and
since I always wanted it to be handled by someone of the TIGCC team, I
decided to take over the project. I am planning to work on getting it
to run again on platform/*nix combinations other than x86/Linux (now
achieved), and to implement all features known from the Win32 version
(IDE still missing, everything else done). See
http://tigcc.ticalc.org/linux/ for the current status of the project.


Installation
------------

Installing from the binary RPM:
-------------------------------

* into /usr/local/tigcc (requires root privileges): rpm -ivh tigcc*.rpm
* into ~/tigcc (user HOME dir): rpm -ivh tigcc*.rpm --prefix ~/tigcc

Installing from binaries with the setup wizard:
-----------------------------------------------

* Download tigcc_bin.tar.bz2 and Install.sh into the same directory.
* Make sure Install.sh is executable:
chmod 755 Install.sh
* Run Install.sh:
./Install.sh
and follow the instructions. If you want a text-mode install on a
system with KDE installed, you can use:
DIALOG=dialog ./Install.sh
to tell the script to use the text-mode (curses) dialog instead of
kdialog.

You will be prompted for the destination directory you want to install
TIGCC to ($TIGCC). Then the wizard will extract the files there.
When done, the wizard will ask you whether you want to add your $TIGCC
setting to bashrc. If you answer "Yes", you are done here, you only
need to restart bash. If you prefer to do things by hand, answer "No"
and follow the instructions below. (If you selected "No", but changed
your mind, you can also run envreg by hand afterwards.)

Installing from binaries without the setup wizard:
--------------------------------------------------

First, copy your full tigcc binary package to '/'. You can use a
directory of your chosing but you will have to move the uncompressed
files.
Then, install it by:

bunzip2 tigcc_bin.tar.bz2
tar xvf tigcc_bin.tar

Now, set the environment variable TIGCC to the directory you
extracted into. You need to set this variable in your profile,
because the tigcc front-end needs it to find the header files.

If you use bash, add it to your .bashrc file in your home
directory. You could also use your .profile or .login if
you have those. If you use tcsh or csh, put it in your
.cshrc file (or if you use .tcshrc, put it there).

I've never used korn shell. You're on your own if you do.

For bash/sh users

export TIGCC=/usr/local/tigcc
export PATH=$PATH:$TIGCC/bin

For csh/tcsh users

setenv TIGCC /usr/local/tigcc
set path=($path $TIGCC/bin)

I've had problems using setenv to reset the path in tcsh.
setenv path "$path ${TIGCC}/bin"
doesn't seem to work.

You may need to logout and log back in for that to take
effect. Or you can resource your profile.

source ~/.profile
source ~/.bashrc
source ~/.cshrc
source ~/.tcshrc

You only need to resource the file you changed.


Compiling and installing from source:
-------------------------------------

See the INSTALL file for instructions for building from source.
Note that I recommend to use the binary release when possible though.


Available programs
------------------

- a68k: AmigaOS assembler
- as: GNU assembler
- ar-tigcc: TIGCC archiver
- gcc: GNU compiler
- ld-tigcc: TIGCC linker
- patcher: patches .s files generated by gcc (mainly for internal use)
- tigcc: the front-end for using TIGCC
- tprbuilder: a program for building .tpr files (Tigcc PRoject).
- tt*: a lot of utilities from the TIGCC Tools Suite

Only tigcc and tprbuilder are intended to be called directly. The TIGCC Tools
Suite might be distributed separately in the future (as it is for Windows). Its
continued presence as a part of the TIGCC for Linux/Unix package is not
guaranteed. All other tools are intended to be called through the tigcc frontend
only.

In addition, there is a shell script called tigccdoc, which will open the HTML
documentation in QT Assistant 3.2 or higher, a help viewer offering the same
features Microsoft HTML Help offers under Windows: content hierarchy, alphabetic
index and full-text search. The GPL version of QT Assistant can be obtained for
free from http://www.trolltech.com . For binary packages, check with your
Linux distributor or operating system vendor.

For QT Assistant versions older than 3.2, you can manually add qt-assistant.dcf
to your documentation sources. However, this has the disadvantage that the index
and the full-text search will mix entries from the QT documentation with entries
from the TIGCC documentation, so it is recommended to use QT Assistant 3.2 and
tigccdoc instead.


Usage
-----

Simply call tigcc and pass your filenames and any desired flags (the
flags listed here are the minimum recommended flags for all TIGCC
programs):

'tigcc -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections --optimize-code
--cut-ranges --reorder-sections --merge-constants --remove-unused
-Wall -W -Wwrite-strings test.c'


Once you have created your program, you can test it on an emulator
(such as TiEmu) or directly on your calculator. For this, you have to
transfer the program using a linking program (such as TiLP).


Examples
--------

You will find in the examples directory some projects which come from
the TIGCC/Win32 SDK. You can build them by:

'tprbuilder myproject.tpr'

If you have installed TiLP (http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp), you can
load the program. Simply do a 'tilp -cmdline foo.89z' (console) or
'tilp foo.89z) (X11).


Development platform used for the binary release
------------------------------------------------

Machine: Pentium III running Fedora Core 4
Compiler: gcc version 4.0.1-4.fc4 (Fedora Core 4) (rpm -q gcc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 for i686 (Fedora Core 4) (uname -a)
Libc: glibc 2.3.5-10.3 for i686 (Fedora Core 4) (rpm -q glibc)


Thanks
------

By Romain Liévin:
Rudolf Polzer He was the first guy to test my (Romain) first release
of TIGCC and has helped me to understand the patch
mechanism.
Kevin Kofler Some information about the tipatch mechanism.

By Kevin Kofler:
I would like to thank my collegues from the TIGCC team (Sebastian
Reichelt, Zeljko Juric, ...) and the previous maintainers of TIGCC for
Linux (Henri Moilanen, Romain Liévin) for the excellent work done,
which allows me to release this package.