[Coco] Profiling emulator?

[Mark McDougall]

On 30/08/2016 11:57 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> Mark, you're welcome to join in on the VCC project. We really need more
> people. I just handle the page (no programming). There are 2 programmers
> working on it, both AWOL at the moment for "life reasons"

Tonight I finally managed to get VCC building and running under MINGW/MSYS!

Of course gcc builds from the command-line using a makefile. I'm not a make 
guru so it could be a bit verbose, but it works!

A few patches for compatibility, a few 'bugs' fixed that GCC complains 
about, #include <afxwin.h> commented-out, a call to AfxInitRichEdit 
commented-out, and one line in the main .RC commented-out for the moment, 
but it boots into the Coco3 BASIC ROM!!!

What didn't run was the Knight Lore cartridge image, though my total testing 
has been around 10 seconds! Plus there's the small matter of the stuff I 
commented-out... ;)

When next I get time, I'll see if I can fix the stuff I commented-out, 
though I think AfxInitRichEdit will be a problem... can we do without it? 
Depending on the use of rich edit controls, it may not be necessary to call 
this function.

So... I guess I should join the project and submit proper patches to build 
under both platforms, though I don't have Visual Studio installed (that was 
the point of this exercise). And I have to learn how to use git (though I 
have been using Mercurial).

The patches should be simple, like _inline (MSVC) -> inline (gcc) so I guess 
we create an 'osd' header and #define INLINE depending on compiler etc...

I guess when we get it running 100% in GCC we can replace the Win32API calls 
with wxWidgets or (shudder) Qt and have it running on different platforms... 
I've used wxWidgets before but must admit I wasn't completely enamoured with it.

Regards,

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