Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: s0017210@unix1.cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
Subject: Transputer networks with Linux PC as host? how compile?
Summary: How to compile for transputers placed in a PC host running Linux?
Keywords: Linux transputers compiler ANSI-C D7214
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: 26 Oct 1994 02:48:04 -0400
Message-ID: <38ku34$vqq@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>

	I have asked this about nine months ago but I am still
	a little unclear on how to go about compiling ANSI-C code
	to run on transputer networks that are installed on a B008
	motherboard in a PC running Linux. We have a older version
	of the INMOS PC-DOS ANSI-C compiler tools (D7214) that supposably
	actually runs on the root transputer. I was told this was ideal
	(next to buying a C compiler source to compile with GCC under
	Linux, like PACT or Logical Systems packages) for use with
	the Linux device drivers and Iserver port. My confusion comes
	from the other tools that are part of the distribution such as
	icc, icconf, icollect and etc. These are DOS executables so how
	do we actually go about compiling, linking, configuring, and
	collecting under Linux? I see there are *.btl files such as
	icc.btl, icconf.btl under the itools directory. Are these 
	something we can load onto the root transputer with the Linux
	version of the iserver to do these same jobs under Linux? 
	Or do we have to compile, link, configure, and collect under DOS
	then load the resulting code under Linux?
	I have the transputer device driver version 0.4 written by
	Christoph Niemann (niemann@swt.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) and it seems
	like a really well thought out package (it even runs the TDS).
	I just hope it works with the 1.1.51 kernel I am running. :-)
	If anyone who is using Transputers with Linux running on  
	the host could shed any light on this I would appreciate it.
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| Steven A. DuChene   sduchene@cis.ysu.edu  or  s0017210@cc.ysu.edu	 
| Youngstown State University  | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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