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Hi everyone,

I am not able to install xtc68 under Cygwin under Windows 10.
I have followed the instructions (copying and unzipping the files to the "support" directory, installing dependencies, etc.)
It freezes whenever I run "install.sh" and no files from "support" are copied to /usr/local/
It ...

@NormanDunbar, I think your suggestion is really good.
I just need to check whether it can be used with all compilers.

Thanks!

My code goes through a tool chain made of more or less C89 C cross-compilers including also CC65, Z88DK, CMOC, ACK, Z8K-GCC...

#include "../foo.h"
seems to be C89-compliant

I need my code to compile on all of these compilers. The solution is to have my code to be C89-compliant.

What you ...

Hi everyone!

I have managed to install XTC68. It does work on a single file but I don't know how to get it to compile files some of which have
#include directives of user-created header files with relative paths.

I get these errors:
root@brizio-VirtualBox:/media/sf_Retro/CROSS-CHASE/src# make cc ...

Hi everyone,

I am trying to use XTC68 (and not QDOS-GCC as I wrote initially).
I have managed to build the version at: https://github.com/stronnag/xtc68

This version has no crt.o, no headers and no libs and no instructions on how to install them other than a link to http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/c/index ...

@Derek_Stewart,

ncurses is just one possibilities.
curses may also be ok.

If real graphics is not too complicated, I could make a QL module with sprites and not just ASCII characters.

The game code is hardware-agnostic. I can even make a non-graphics module where the game becomes a sort of text ...

Maybe I should give up docker and try to install qdos-gcc natively. It is a lengthy process that requires patching a specific gcc version.

Has anyone here managed to install gdos-gcc? I will try to install it under cygwin.

@M68008, I know I need to use the -v option. The question is how:

Brizio@DESKTOP-I20P8HM MINGW64 /c/Program Files/Docker Toolbox
$ docker run -v /c/Retro xora/qdos-gcc qdos-gcc hello.c
qdos-gcc: hello.c: No such file or directory
qdos-gcc: No input files

Brizio@DESKTOP-I20P8HM MINGW64 /c/Program ...

Hi Derek,

the problem here is that I cannot ever run the compiler. I need to understad how to use qdos-gcc.

The graphics and sounds on CROSS-CHASE is target-specific through some sort of "driver" or module.
I have all sort of modules and I can make one for whatever is possible with the QL. I can ...

I am using docker because I though it was the simplest way to get to compile my game. I am open to other possibilities.

I am not "porting my game" to the QL. I just want to compile it "as it is" for the QL and add the necessary bits to my universal tool-chain:
https://github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso ...