RE: m68k assembler (and MRI tools)

["Bruce Adams" <bruadams at tycoint dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Starr [mailto:don@starrsoft.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:45 PM
> To: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: m68k assembler (and MRI tools)
> 
> 
> I believe Mentor got MRI's compilers, XRAY debugger, and VRTX 
> RTOS (which MRI got from Ready Systems a couple years earlier).
> 
> All of which brings me to MY question:

Sorry to ask one of my own instead.
Good luck with yours :-)

> Has anybody moved from the MRI tools to GCC for the 68K? 
> While using a 3rd-party library (object code only)?  I've 
> been using the MRI tools for the last couple of years to 
> develop code for a box that runs VRTX. The manufacturer of 
> the box has an SDK that includes libraries. The libraries 
> were created with the MRI tools. I MUST link with these 
> libraries (or some derivative) because the entry points into 
> VRTX are contained within it. The manufacturer's code in the 
> box is statically linked with VRTX, and I need to make calls 
> to both VRTX and hardware support routines in the manufacturer's code.
>
I am currently evaluating a replacement compiler for our CPU32 system.
The Microtec compiler from Mentor is on my list.  What are your 
Motivations for moving to gcc?  (you might save me some time :-)
 
> I've built GCC 2.95.3 (m68k-elf) and can compile/assemble/
> link CPU32 code, with S-Record output. No problems there -
> as long as I don't reference this SDK library.
>
Did you build it under cygwin by any chance? Because I'm having great
Difficults getting to this stage (see recent posts to this list).  Any
tips would be much appreciated.
				Regards,
					 Bruce A.


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