[Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker

[James Jones]

Shame on me. There is a GUI way to add it, as Mr. Zambotti has pointed out.
That's the simpler way to go.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:29 PM, James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's not a command; it's a line to add to a file to tell apt where to
> find the .deb files that Mr. Volden has kindly created and made available.
> Which file? Here are your choices:
>
> 1. /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2. a file that lives in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d
>
> I'd suggest (2), and moreover suggest creating a new file for the purpose,
> say, tormodvolden-m6809.list, to suggest what it lets you install. Make the
> file belong to user and group root, and have rw permission for root, just
> read for everybody else. You can have comments (starting with # ) in the
> file so you can put in reminders for yourself.
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tormod,
>> I tried
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/m6809/ubuntu trusty main
>> on my Debian Linux box and found that deb is not a recognized command so
>> I did
>> apt-get install deb
>> and got an error on that as well.
>> I also tried to get the add-apt-repository package as well with the same
>> not found kind of result.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Kip Koon
>> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Tormod
>> Volden
>> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 1:46 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Kip Koon wrote:
>> > Hi Guys,
>> > I have been tracking y'all's email conversations about GCC6809.  I
>> >didn't know there were 3 different  versions of it!  Several years
>> >back, I had GCC6809 running in Cygwin originally.  It took while and
>> >quite a bit
>>
>> There have been many hands on it over the years, from Tom Jones in 1992,
>> Matthias Dörfel in 1999, before Brian Dominy in 2009 and now our William
>> Astle and David Flamand.
>>
>> > of effort to figure it all out.  I went back and forth on the internet
>> to try to find something that would work.  Ultimately I did get GCC6809
>> running.  Because of all the difficulty compiling, installing and getting
>> GCC6809 to run on Cygwin, I hadn't even considered trying it again.  That
>> is until now.
>> > So my question is which version of GCC6809 should I try?
>> > Tormod, would your version of GCC6809 compile, install and run
>> successfully on Cygwin and Debian as it does on Ubuntu?
>>
>> You can use my PPA with Debian, just add the source list entries for
>> "trusty" to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get update && apt-get
>> install gcc6809. That's the easiest you can do.
>>
>> It should compile on Cygwin but as you have experienced it might take
>> some effort.
>>
>> The version in my PPA is basically the one from William, which is based
>> on Brian's and ported to LWTOOLS. David's is also based on Brian's and is
>> using David's own linker. I haven't tried building that one so I cannot
>> help much there.
>>
>> > I now have a 64 bit version of Cygwin called Cygwin64 running on my
>> primary Windows 7 installation on my laptop.  I also recently installed the
>> latest version of Debian Linux which is v9.1 if memory serves on an old HP
>> Mini-tower.  It works quite nicely by the way.  I have all 3 serial ports
>> of my MAXI09 connected to the Linux box so I can access the MAXI09 board
>> through my network.  It is quite cool to see that happen.  The Debian Linux
>> box was setup so I would have the same development platform as Lawrence
>> Manning's setup in England.  Having identical  Linux setups makes the
>> software development a lot easier to manage.  So, Cygwin64 and Debian are
>> the 2 Linux installations I would like to put GCC6809 on as soon as I can
>> figure out which one to use.
>> > Tormod, what is your expert opinion as to which GCC6809 package is the
>> best one to compile, install and run an these 2 Linux installations?
>>
>> Cygwin != Linux :) And if you have a Linux installation, why would you
>> punish yourself with Cygwin?
>>
>> > I would also be interested in any Linux software that y'all are able to
>> successfully port over to NitrOS-9/OS-9.  Take care my friends.
>>
>> For those who want to run Linux'y, or rather, older UNIX software, on the
>> CoCo and Dragon, FUZIX is maybe a better route to go.
>>
>> Tormod
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