This is preliminary information about the Macintosh(tm) MPW(tm) port of the Cygnus GNU tools. INSTALLING CYGNUS GNU TOOLS To use these tools, you will need a Mac with a 68020 or better or else any PowerMac, System 7.1 or later, and MPW 3.3 or 3.4. You will *not* need MPW C unless you want to rebuild from sources, nor even any include files, unless you are building actual Mac applications. The Cygnus GNU tools can go in any directory that is in your {Commands} list. We generally put all the tools in something like {Boot}Cygnus:latest:bin, and something like this in the UserStartup file: set Commands "{Boot}Cygnus:latest:bin:,{Commands}" However, the cpp and cc1 programs of GCC are not normally stored here. Instead, they will be in a "lib" directory that is alongside "bin", and organized by target and version underneath, with names like :lib:gcc-lib:mips-idt-ecoff:cygnus-2.6.4-950305: If you built and installed everything yourself according to the build instructions, then you will not have any problems. However, you may discover that GCC seems unable to find the right cpp and cc1; usually this will be because directory names have changed. (Even renaming your hard disk will make this happen.) In such cases, you have several choices. One is just to add this directory to {Commands}, but then you will not be able to get any other cpp or cc1, such as those used by a different target or version. Another way is to rename your disk and directories to match the prefix used when the tools were compiled. Finally, you can set the variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to point to the library directory: set GCC_EXEC_PREFIX MyDisk:Stuff:lib:gcc-lib: export GCC_EXEC_PREFIX USING CYGNUS GNU TOOLS To compile and link a file "foo.c", say gC foo.c This port of GCC exactly the same option syntax as its Unix counterpart. It also has similar compilation rules, so it will run the assembler on .s files and so forth. For the example above, the output file will be an MPW binary file named "a.out". The GCC manual includes full information on the available options. One option that may be especially useful is "-v", which shows you what tools and options are being used; unlike MPW C, GCC directs assembly and linking in addition to compilation. The assembler ("as") and linker ("ld") are faithful ports of their Unix counterparts. Similarly, the binutils "ar", "cplusfilt", "nm", "objcopy", "objdump", "ranlib", "size", "strings", and "strip" are all like they are under Unix. (Note that "cplusfilt" is actually called "c++filt" under Unix.) There are two flavors of GDB. "gdb" is an MPW tool that works very much like it does in Unix; put a command into the MPW worksheet and type the key to send it to GDB. While "gdb" is running, you cannot do anything else in MPW, although you can switch to other applications and use them. "SiowGDB" is also a Mac application, but it is GDB using the SIOW package to provide console emulation. Commands are exactly as for the MPW tool, but since this is its own application, you can switch between it and MPW. Currently, both flavors of GDB can only do cross-debugging, via the serial port. BUILDING CYGNUS GNU TOOLS This port of the Cygnus GNU tools uses a configure script similar to that used for GNU tools under Unix, but rewritten for MPW. As with Unix configuration, there is an "object" directory that may be different from the "source" directory. In the example commands below, we will assume that we are currently in the object directory, and that the source directory is "{Boot}Cygnus:src". In addition to the sources, you will need a set of tools that the configure and build scripts assume to be available. These tools (and their versions, if relevant) are as follows: byacc tool flex (2.3.7) tool forward-include script MoveIfChange script open-brace script sed (1.13) tool tr-7to8 script The scripts are in the sources, under utils:mpw:, while you must arrange to get the other tools yourself (they are readily available from the "usual" net sites, and are also on many CDROMS). set Commands "{Boot}Cygnus:buildtools:,{Commands}" Set FLEX_SKELETON "{Boot}"Cygnus:buildtools:Flex.skel Export FLEX_SKELETON To build everything, setdirectory to the object directory and do: {Boot}Cygnus:src:mpw-configure --target --cc --srcdir {Boot}Cygnus:src: --prefix If the the source directory is not in your {Commands} list, then you must supply a full pathname to mpw-configure, since mpw-configure invokes itself after switching into each subdirectory. Using a relative pathname, even something like ':mpw-configure', will therefore not work. must be a known target. Valid ones include "m68k-apple-macos", "powerpc-apple-macos", "i386-unknown-go32", "mips-idt-ecoff", and "sh-hitachi-hms". Not all target types are accepted for all of the tools yet. must be the name of the compiler to use. It defaults to "mpwc". (m68k) mpwc MPW C sc68k Symantec C mwc68k Metrowerks C (Codewarrior) gcc68k GCC (powerpc) ppcc PPCC mrc Macintosh on RisC (Mister C, aka(?) Frankenstein) scppc Symantec C mwcppc Metrowerks C (Codewarrior) gccppc GCC Not all compilers will compile all tools equally well! For m68k Macs, MPW C has the best record so far (it has problems, but they can be worked around), while for PowerMacs, CodeWarrior is the only compiler that has successfully compiled everything into running code. is the path that "gcc" will prepend when looking for tools to execute. Then the command mpw-build will build everything, and mpw-build install will install it. Building will take over an hour on a Quadra 800. Most versions of MPW C have problems with compiling GNU software. MPW C 3.2.x has preprocessing bugs that render it incapable of compiling the BFD library, so it can't be used at all for building BFD. MPW C 3.3, 3.3.1, and 3.3.2 will spontaneously claim to have found errors in the source code, but in fact the code is perfectly fine. If this happens, just set the working directory back to the top-level objdir (where the configure command above was performed), and type "mpw-build all" again. If it goes on through the supposed error, then you got one of the spurious errors. A full build may require a number of these restarts. MPW C 3.3.3 seems to work OK, at least with the aid of a number of workarounds that are in the sources (look for #ifdef MPW_C). Versions of MPW Make earlier than 4.0d2 have exhibited bizarre behavior, failure to substitute variables and the like. Metrowerks CW6 PPC linker (MWLinkPPC) seems to do bad things with memory if the "Modern Memory Manager" is turned on (in the Memory control panel), but works OK if it is turned off. Metrowerks CW6 loses bigtime compiling opcodes:ppc-opc.c, which has some deeply nested macros. (CW7 is OK.) There is a way to patch the file, by substituting constant values. If you need to do this, contact shebs@cygnus.com for details. is missing from {CIncludes} in the MPW version that comes with CW 7. KNOWN BUGS '/' or ' ' embedded in any device, directory, or file name may or may not work. objcopy -O srec foo.o makes random output filenames. Mac-x-mips requires -mgas but Unix hosts don't. GDB will frequently require a '/' on the front of a device name in order to recognize it as an absolute rather than a relative pathname. GDB doesn't seem to use the printer port correctly, although it tries. The cursor doesn't always spin as much as it should. To get elaborate statistics and warnings about spin rates, add this to UserStartup: set MEASURE_SPIN all export MEASURE_SPIN This is not a bug, but - watch out for cr/nl translation! For instance, if config/mpw-mh-mpw is not properly translated because it has been copied or updated separately, then everything will almost build, but you will get puzzling error messages from make or the compiler.