Re: [Tinycc-devel] plans to 0.9.27

[Chris Marshall]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:31 AM, grischka <address@hidden> wrote:
> Christian Jullien wrote:
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> This is precisely why I wrote win32/Makefile which, with only
>> Cygwin+native Cygwin gcc, was able to bootstrap a native Windows tcc for x86
>> and x86_64 and check that all tests work.
>> Grischka disliked to have this Makefile and insisted to remove it. HIMO,
>> we now lose the ability to very easily build native Windows tcc and test it
>> as there is no replacement atm.
>> I dislike the idea to install mingw on top of Cygwin just to produce
>> native build while standard gcc is able to do that and works like a charm
>
>
> ONLY for people who not are already TOO OLD to type some configure
> options or TO TRY something NEW or DIFFERENT, eventually:

In my case, I'm TOO NEW to tcc.  Thanks for the additional
documentation.  I was able to run full native window tests as
indicated.  Will this be added to README or win32/tcc-win32.txt
or both?

Thanks!
Chris

> # build a cross-tcc using standard cygwin gcc and install in X:
>
>     ./configure --prefix=$PWD/X
>     make
>     make install
>     make distclean
>
> # configure once for using that, anytime in future:
>
>     ./configure --cc=$PWD/X/tcc --prefix=$PWD/W
>
> # build a native windows tcc, optionally with -m32/64, run full tests,
>   and install as ready-to-use relocatable tree in W:
>
>     make
>     make cross-i386-win32  (cross-x86_64-win32 if on 32bits)
>     make test
>     make install
>
> -- gr
>
>
>>
>> Until we have a way to do  that, I'll continue to use my own
>> win32/Makefile (now private) copy.
>>
>> Now, you can try to convince Grischka to restore it or ask him to add the
>> logic in main Makefile to produce Windows native tcc for x86/x86_64 with
>> just Cygwin+standard Cygwin gcc.
>>
>> If we dream, we should have Canadian-cross compiler with just configure
>> --triplet; make. Where triplet is:
>>
>> System types:
>>   --build=BUILD     configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
>>   --host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
>>   --target=TARGET   configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]
>>
>> But this is a very huge task to make it work. Until then, I'll continue to
>> use my Makefile on Cygwin which is close to my ideal.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tinycc-devel
>> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Chris
>> Marshall
>> Sent: jeudi 12 octobre 2017 02:54
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] plans to 0.9.27
>>
>> I just confirmed that restoring the "build windows tcc with cygwin"
>> win32/Makefile still works.
>>
>> Since there is no posix cygwin build of tcc available, I suggest not
>> breaking the cygwin build until there is an actual posix/cygwin tcc build
>> supported.
>>
>> After the 0.9.27 official release, I look forward to contributing
>> development of a native posix cygwin tcc.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> On 10/11/2017 19:14, Chris Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>> I was able to 'make' and 'make test' with the original win32/Makefile.  I
>>> got home and tried the "new" version building with cygwin and now it doesn't
>>> pass tests because it says -run is not valid for a cross compiler.
>>>
>>> I think this is a bug since tcc does not have a posix version for cygwin
>>> so while tcc is built with a cross compiler, if you are running tcc on
>>> windows (built with cygwin or otherwise) then you have a
>>> *windows* tcc not a "cross-compiler".
>>>
>>> But,.... the win32/Makefile worked like a charm and all tests pass with a
>>> simple build.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/2017 12:20, grischka wrote:
>>>>
>>>> grischka wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> avih wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Two things:
>>>>>> 1. Will the version be 0.9.27 or 0.9.28?
>>>>>
>>>>> 0.9.27.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. On windows in msys2 mingw 64 environment with gcc 7.2.0, (building
>>>>>> tcc 64 for windows with mingw gcc 64) the build completes but some tests
>>>>>> fail (see below).
>>>>
>>>> Now, I fixed that, plus the ARM signed char test, plus some other stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I removed the win32/Makefile (thanks to Christian's OK), and the
>>>> VIP patch (it is just not how it should work), and the -iwithprefix option
>>>> (what was the point without -iprefix).
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, there is
>>>> * a patch to tccelf.c to avoid DT_TEXTREL unless really required
>>>> * a nifty one in tccasm.c to avoid the 'p3' forward label from
>>>>   alloca86_64.S being put into dynsym with a relocation (huh?)
>>>> * and the (sig)set variable in tcctest.c was made static to
>>>>   avoid some issue with inline asm that I didn't try to fix
>>>> * no diff -I option anymore to make tests work with busybox
>>>> * a patch to tccrun.c for better selinux support.
>>>>
>>>> With these changes, tcc now seems to build and pass all tests cleanly on
>>>> Alpine musl x86_64 standard-grsec and vanilla too, configured with
>>>>    ./configure --config-musl --with-selinux optionally also with
>>>>    --disable-static and/or --cc=tcc (once it was installed)
>>>>
>>>> Patch is here:
>>>> http://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/commitdiff/da8c62f75d893449e232944fc6256
>>>> 6c020b4d010
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You might realize that I bumped the 'master' branch too, which is meant
>>>> to mean:
>>>>     "This could be what we could release as 0,9,27, soon"
>>>>
>>>> Say next week or so, last-minute-fixes/features notwithstanding.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -- gr
>>>>
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