AmigaOS Baby Steps

[Andreas Stenmark]

Hey,

I'm launching the AmigaOS porting blog on Monday.  For me this is a challenging project, for reasons that may become apparent as the blog unfolds.  I will attempt to appeal to a wide (-ish) audience, so I may need to find another forum for the gritties, juiciest implementation details.  This list may be part of that other forum, though I don't mean to litter it with things that are new and interesting only to me.  Just let me know if I appear to post too much, too little or too unrelated.

Sneak preview from the fb/twitter promo.

I will share the blog link on Monday when it goes live.  Vadim, you mentioned possibly promoting it on the wx blog.  That'd be awesome obviously.  Let me know how you want to do it.  If you want to write a short intro and link to it that's fine.  Or if you'd prefer me to write something, then I can send you a short text.  Or check out the first post in a cpl days and decide then.  Either way works.

In the meanwhile, maybe someone gets a kick out of the following sequence of commands:

andreas@fenix-ubuntu ~/src/wxWidgets/build/amiga

$ ../../configure --host=m68k-amigaos --disable-gui --disable-all-features --disable-shared --disable-sockets

...

Configured wxWidgets 2.9.4 for `m68k-unknown-amigaos'

  Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use?                 base only

  Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library?       no

  Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library?         no

  Should wxWidgets support Unicode?                       no

  What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?

                                       wxWidgets 2.6      no

                                       wxWidgets 2.8      yes

  Which libraries should wxWidgets use?

                                       STL                no

                                       jpeg               none

                                       png                none

                                       regex              no

                                       tiff               none

                                       zlib               no

                                       expat              no

                                       libmspack          no

                                       sdl                no

andreas@fenix-ubuntu ~/src/wxWidgets/build/amiga

$ make 2>&1 | tee make.log

...

andreas@fenix-ubuntu /build/amiga/tc-test/wx

$ cat wxhello.cpp

#include <wx/wx.h>

#include <wx/wxcrt.h>

#include <wx/string.h>

int main(void)

{

    wxPuts("Hello, wxWidgets!");

    return 0;

}

andreas@fenix-ubuntu /build/amiga/tc-test/wx

$ m68k-amigaos-g++ -c -o wxhello.o wxhello.cpp `~/src/wxWidgets/build/amiga/wx-config --cxxflags`

andreas@fenix-ubuntu /build/amiga/tc-test/wx

$ m68k-amigaos-g++ -Wl,-allow-multiple-definition -o wxhello wxhello.o `~/src/wxWidgets/build/amiga/wx-config --libs`

It produces a result like this:

This is an older version of the OS on a different architecture, and not entirely representative of the actual target.  It really proves nothing other than being able to compile and link trivial programs with the library.  But it's a baby step in the right direction.

Enjoy your weekend!

//Andreas

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:21:15 -0800 (PST) Andreas Stenmark wrote:

AS> I will share the blog link on Monday when it goes live. Vadim, you
AS> mentioned possibly promoting it on the wx blog. That'd be awesome
AS> obviously. Let me know how you want to do it.

wxBlog is hosted on Blogger and unfortunately I don't know much about it
(except that it's totally unsuitable for any kind of content involving
source code). So the only way I know of doing it is by adding you as an
author there. If there is a better way, e.g. somehow make appear a post
published elsewhere there too, I'd like to know about it but I don't expect
this to be possible.

BTW, I see that wxBlog posts are shared by +wxWidgets on Google Plus, see

https://plus.google.com/103998509273059754527/posts

Does anybody here know who is behind this account? If it's someone we know,
perhaps you could post your posts there?

AS> But it's a baby step in the right direction.

It's certainly a good start!

Looking forward to the next steps,
VZ

[Bryan Petty]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Vadim Zeitlin <va...@wxwidgets.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:21:15 -0800 (PST) Andreas Stenmark wrote:
>
> AS> I will share the blog link on Monday when it goes live. Vadim, you
> AS> mentioned possibly promoting it on the wx blog. That'd be awesome
> AS> obviously. Let me know how you want to do it.
>
> wxBlog is hosted on Blogger and unfortunately I don't know much about it
> (except that it's totally unsuitable for any kind of content involving
> source code). So the only way I know of doing it is by adding you as an
> author there. If there is a better way, e.g. somehow make appear a post
> published elsewhere there too, I'd like to know about it but I don't expect
> this to be possible.
>
> BTW, I see that wxBlog posts are shared by +wxWidgets on Google Plus, see
>
> https://plus.google.com/103998509273059754527/posts
>
> Does anybody here know who is behind this account? If it's someone we know,
> perhaps you could post your posts there?

I have been posting news and blog items there for almost a year now,
just as I see any opportunity to share news there.

Believe it or not, you (Vadim) have had access to post anything there
for a long time now actually. :)

Anyway, I'd be happy to post some news about this there. Just send me
a link to the detailed post about it including how to get involved and
such, and I can summarize and link to it.

Regards,
Bryan Petty

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:39:59 -0700 Bryan Petty wrote:

BP> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Vadim Zeitlin <va...@wxwidgets.org> wrote:
...
BP> > BTW, I see that wxBlog posts are shared by +wxWidgets on Google Plus, see
BP> >
BP> > https://plus.google.com/103998509273059754527/posts
BP> >
BP> > Does anybody here know who is behind this account? If it's someone we know,
BP> > perhaps you could post your posts there?
BP>
BP> I have been posting news and blog items there for almost a year now,
BP> just as I see any opportunity to share news there.

Ah, good to know it was you, thanks, one mystery solved.

BP> Believe it or not, you (Vadim) have had access to post anything there
BP> for a long time now actually. :)

I must be showing my senility fully here: not only I completely forgot
about you ever telling me about this (which you undoubtedly did, but I just
don't remember it at all), but I also can't even see how do I post anything
there now that I know I should be capable of doing it... I could probably
link wxBlog to this page (instead of my own one) to make it happen
automatically though, I'll try to do it the next time I post anything
there.

Best,
VZ

[Andreas Stenmark]

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:09:51 AM UTC+1, VZ wrote:

 wxBlog is hosted on Blogger and unfortunately I don't know much about it
(except that it's totally unsuitable for any kind of content involving
source code). So the only way I know of doing it is by adding you as an
author there. If there is a better way, e.g. somehow make appear a post
published elsewhere there too, I'd like to know about it but I don't expect
this to be possible.

Ok, that works.   My blog is also on Blogger, so it should be straightforward to add my account as required.

My blog is open now btw on portingwx.blogspot.com.  I will do a little promo post later today, probably here, on wx-user and in the forums.

//A.

[Bryan Petty]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Vadim Zeitlin <va...@wxwidgets.org> wrote:
> I must be showing my senility fully here: not only I completely forgot
> about you ever telling me about this (which you undoubtedly did, but I just
> don't remember it at all), but I also can't even see how do I post anything
> there now that I know I should be capable of doing it... I could probably
> link wxBlog to this page (instead of my own one) to make it happen
> automatically though, I'll try to do it the next time I post anything
> there.

Actually, maybe I just added you into "team members" circle which I
was under the impression granted you access to manage the page. That
doesn't appear to be the case, but I have figured out the correct way
to do this, so no, you're not going senile. ;)

Just to clarify, it works just as if you had another Google account.
You just use the account switcher in the top right corner to change
accounts to the wxWidgets page, and everything you do from there is
done as wxWidgets (comments, posts, uploads, profile changes, etc):
http://i.imgur.com/HuAq2.png

Regards,
Bryan Petty