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The Icon Bar: Programming: Compatability with previous OS
 
  Compatability with previous OS
  MrTAToad (14:54 23/11/2012)
  nunfetishist (16:25 23/11/2012)
    MrTAToad (17:09 23/11/2012)
      nunfetishist (18:16 23/11/2012)
        MrTAToad (19:00 23/11/2012)
          MrTAToad (14:52 24/11/2012)
            nunfetishist (15:41 24/11/2012)
              MrTAToad (16:57 24/11/2012)
                bhtooefr (17:57 24/11/2012)
                  MrTAToad (18:15 24/11/2012)
                nunfetishist (18:05 24/11/2012)
 
Nicholas Kingsley Message #121539, posted by MrTAToad at 14:54, 23/11/2012
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Whilst I'm saving for the ROOL DDE stuff, I was wondering whether it is a good idea to maintain compatibility with previous OS versions (3.x, 4.x etc) or whether to just stick with 5.x upwards.

Whilst using C/C++ it shouldn't matter, beyond re-comping, there may be features that are only in 5 that may need to be used.
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Rob Kendrick Message #121540, posted by nunfetishist at 16:25, 23/11/2012, in reply to message #121539
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Whilst I'm saving for the ROOL DDE stuff, I was wondering whether it is a good idea to maintain compatibility with previous OS versions (3.x, 4.x etc) or whether to just stick with 5.x upwards.

Whilst using C/C++ it shouldn't matter, beyond re-comping, there may be features that are only in 5 that may need to be used.
It's quite trivial (at least using GCC; I've not used Norcroft in a decade) to build code that'll run on anything from an ancient RiscPC all the way up to the Raspberry Pi and Beagle Board.

As a baseline. NetSurf requires RISC OS 4. But this isn't because we use features of RISC OS 4; we just have no way of testing on anything earlier.
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Nicholas Kingsley Message #121541, posted by MrTAToad at 17:09, 23/11/2012, in reply to message #121540
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I've got an A3010 ROM around, so if needed I can at least test on that.

One other thing - does the DDE come with a specific C IDE or does StrongEd need setting up to be able to compile/create make files and whatnot.
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Rob Kendrick Message #121542, posted by nunfetishist at 18:16, 23/11/2012, in reply to message #121541
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There is no need to support such ancient RISC OS 3.1 machines. The earliest anybody should ever support back to is 3.5.

The DDE is not an IDE. It does come with a text editor, but you won't like it.

To launch your Makefile, double-click on it. Or automate builds by triggering them off a version control commit.
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Nicholas Kingsley Message #121543, posted by MrTAToad at 19:00, 23/11/2012, in reply to message #121542
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Fair enough - a good compromise...
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Nicholas Kingsley Message #121546, posted by MrTAToad at 14:52, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121543
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One other thing - does Sourcery work on OS 5 ?
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Rob Kendrick Message #121547, posted by nunfetishist at 15:41, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121546
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Its website says it should work on 32 bit systems, and that it requires eight megabits of RAM. So I'm sure it'll work.

I'm not sure why you'd want to, though: use GNU Make, as this makes it trivial to cross-compile from a Linux box when your application gets large. (As an example, NetSurf takes around 15 seconds to compile for RISC OS on my laptop. I believe it takes upwards of 30 minutes to an hour natively.)
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Nicholas Kingsley Message #121548, posted by MrTAToad at 16:57, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121547
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I dont have Linux system - yet. The idea is to get (at some point in the future), 2 Pi's (one for Linux - which would be used for program testing) and one for RiscOS for testing/developing/general use.
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Eric Rucker Message #121549, posted by bhtooefr at 17:57, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121548
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What sort of modern system do you have?

Any Windows or Mac systems?
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Rob Kendrick Message #121550, posted by nunfetishist at 18:05, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121548
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My suggestion is to spend £100 on the cheapest PC you can find. It'll probably be orders of magnitude faster than building software natively, as well as giving you more options for version control system, assuming you're going to use GCC. And I recommend GCC over Norcroft, especially if you're doing C++ work.

(For example, git and bzr are not available for RISC OS. And nor is it likely git will be any time soon, as it requires mmap()).
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Nicholas Kingsley Message #121551, posted by MrTAToad at 18:15, 24/11/2012, in reply to message #121549
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It's a dual core Windows 7 PC, although by the time the sales start, I hope to have enough to get a tri/quad core Windows 8 machine...

As I previously mentioned most testing and programming will be done using the emulator.

[Edited by MrTAToad at 18:18, 24/11/2012]
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