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This site has available for download all the files that are either a standard part of C68, or are particularily relevant to C68 developers. The downloads available are organised into the following categories:

C68 for QDOS - release 4.24f (31st October 1998)

NOTES:

• More recent releases of specific components may be available later on this page, but they will all assume that you have the 4.24f release as your starting point.
• Not all the downloads in the following list have changed since the original 4.24 release (the ones that still say 4.24 release have not changed).

The downloads available to make up the full release are:

• C68 4.24f runtimes disk 1/3 (271Kb)
  Main edit/compile system disk with compiler and header files
  
• C68 4.24f runtimes disk 2/3 (267Kb)
  Main linker system disk with libraries
  
• C68 4.24f runtimes disk 3/3 (360Kb)
  Boot files and extra utilities
  
• C68 4.24f documentation disk 1/2 (241Kb)
  Main compiler programs and general documentation
  
• C68 4.24f documentation disk 2/2 (209Kb)
  libraries and utilities
  
• C68 4.24f source disk 1/4 (547Kb)
  Source of the main C68 compile phase
  
• C68 4.24f source disk 2/4 (397Kb)
  Compiler phases and utility programs
  
• C68 4.24f source disk 3/4 (639Kb)
  Source of main C libraries.
  
• C68 4.24f source disk 4/4 (580K)
  Source of optional extra utilities and libraries
  

C68 for QDOS - updates

Note that users of the releases up to an including 4.24c are strongly recommended to download the new 4.24f RUNTIME set of disks above. Various small problems with the startup modules could cause all programs in the C68 release to crash on particular hardware configurations.

• Make

  This is a minor update to the MAKE program to make it more compatible with Makefiles that originate on other systems. This has been done by allowing make targets in the Makefile to start with "." (fullstop) and if a file with this name is not found automatically try with the "." replaced by "_" (underscore).

  The net effect of this is that many Makefiles [produced for other systems such as Linux will now work with no (or minimal) change under QDOS/SMSQ as well.

  The following are available for download:

  • Binary (25Kb)
  • Source (32Kb)

  CC Compiler front-end v5.19

  This is a minor update to the CC program to make it more compatible with PC Filing systems. In particular it will allow users who have QPC2 v2 (or later) to have the source on a "DOS" device with other files such as objects and binaries on other devices. This has been done by allowing all files to be specified with DOS format filenames, and if the file is on QDOS media they will automatically be translated to QDOS/SMS ones.

  In addition some new parameter options (such as -lang) that are available in the latest version of the C68 compiler are now also recognised by CC as being relevant to C68.

  The following are available for download:

  • Binary (17Kb)
  • Source (38Kb)

  CPP PreProcessor

  This is a minor update to the CPP Pre-processor to make it more compatible with PC Filing systems. It has had similar changes to its file-handling as described for CC above.

  The following are available for download:

  • Binary (34Kb)
  • Source (78Kb)
   

• C68 compiler

  Work has started on taking C68 forward to support the ISO 1999 C standard as described in the beta page. As a result two updated versions of C68 are offered here.

  The first is the last release before work started on developing enhancements to make C68 compatible with the ISO 1999 C standard. Fixes a number of small bugs relative to the 4.24f release as well as some minor enhancements.

  • C68 compiler binary 68Kb (27th June 1999)
  • source that corresponds to above binary.
    (you can get both the compiler source and also the latest compiler support routines).
  • change log to get the details of recent changes.

  The second is the very latest source. This introduces a number of new features from the ISO 1999 C standard. These new features are not all ready for use (if you want more detail see the beta page). However if you run with the command line option of -lang=c90 these new options will be ignored. In the event of you suspecting a fault in C68 please check if you can reproduce it with this version. As it represents our current code base it is the preferred starting point for any fault investigation.

  • C68 compiler binary 79Kb (14th April 2001)
  • C68 compiler source 442Kb (14th April 2001) that corresponds to above binary
  • C68 68K Support routines source ?Kb (14th April 2001)
  • C68 68K IEEE routines source ?Kb (14th April 2001)

  AS68 assembler

  This is a minor update to the AS68 assembler to make it more compatible with PC Filing systems. It has had similar changes to its file-handling as described for CC above.

  The following are available for download:

  • Binary (?Kb)
  • Source (?Kb)

   

  LD Linker v2

  This is a major rewrite of the LD Linker. The impetus was support for RLL libraries, but it can be usefully used even with the standard c68 system. For more information and downloads go here

   

• LIBC v4.24i 59Kb (6th February 2000)

  Fixes a problem reported by Thierry Godefroy where use of the scanf() family of routines using the %[ specifier coudl fail if the only items found were white space.

• GD2 LIBC routines 59Kb (24th March 2001)

  The Enhanced Graphics Driver (GD2) that gives QDOS compatible systems access to more colours than the 4/8 colours of traditional QDOS based systems is now available on the Aurora, QPC2 v2 and QXL running SMSQ/E, and may well appear in the future on other SMSQ/E based systems. To support this extended colour handling new operating system calls have been introduced. This download provides the update to C68 to add support for these new routines. Also included in the download are updates to various documents to include details of the new library routines.

  Rather than provide a complete new LIBC library (at this time) the download includes the file GD2_O. This can be added to an existing LIBC_A library by a command of the form
  

  EX SLB;'-rvf LIBC_A GD2_O' although you may have to add paths to the filenames in the above example if the files are not in the DATA_USE directory.

  NOTES

  • This update is only useful if you have a system that supports the GD2 driver, or are developing software for such a system.
  • The update is based on material provided by George Gwilt (of GWASS fame).

• WMAN LIBC routines 6Kb (1st November 2003)

  These are C68 versions of the new WMAN routines appearing in SMSQ/E v3.xx.

  Rather than provide a complete new LIBC library (at this time) the download includes the file PVP_O. This can be added to an existing LIBC_A library by a command of the form
  

  EX SLB;'-rvf LIBC_A PVP_O' although you may have to add paths to the filenames in the above example if the files are not in the DATA_USE directory.

  NOTES

  • This update is only useful if you have a system that is using SMSQ/E v3.xx, or are developing software for such a system.
  • The update is based on material provided by George Gwilt (of GWASS fame).

• LIBLIST library Release 1.5a (23rd July 2000)

  This is a new release of the LIBLIST list handling library for use with C68 for QDOS.

  This release is a major bug-clearance release relative to the version of the library available with C68 Release 4.24f. It also adds a number of new properties and methods.

• LIBDEBUG library 43Kb (1st December 1999)

  This is a new release of the LIBDEBUG source level debugging library for use with C68 for QDOS.

  This release is a minor facility enhancement relative to the version of the library available with C68 Release 4.24f. The changes are:

  • To provide the ability to add control of indentation of the debugging output according to function entry/exit.
  • Catching any assert() failures in the debugger. This gives you a chance to fix the problem and carry on.

• Unix style Shell

  This is a Unix like shell that was started by P.J.Taylor and enhanced and released by Adrian D Ives. It is works very well in conjunction with C68, particularily when using C68 with source code that has originated in Unix systems and for which one is trying to use Unix style Makefiles.

  This shell has been included as a standard part of the C68 distribution in C68 Release 4.24. The version that is included in this C68 release is v1.08, but Adrian has enhanced it further since the release was made. If you want to check for any later releases, then you can visit this page to check what is the current release.

   

Additional Options

This section covers features that are not currently part of the standard C68 release, (although they could be added to future releases). It also includes any optional add-ons that I release on a regular basis, but that will never be included in the standard C68 release. The ones currently available are:

• C68TOOL Development Environment for C68 (41Kb) (25th December 1999)

  The C68TOOL utility has been developed by Thomas Roesner. It is intended to provide an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for C68 users.
  C68 Tool makes use of the Pointer Environment and Jochen Merz's Menu extensions so these are pre-requisites before you can use C68TOOL.

   

• Environment Variable support v1.07 (14Kb)

  Environment Variable support for QDOS/SMS.
  Increasing numbers of programs in the QDOS/SMS environments now make use of environment variables. Users of C68 will already have these files on their C68 RUNTIME distribution disks, but other users will need these files to be able to get support for Environment variables.

   

• Signal Handling Extension v3.0 (40Kb)

  Signal Handling support for QDOS/SMS.
  Increasing numbers of programs in the QDOS/SMS environments now make use of signal handling. Users of C68 will already have these files on their C68 RUNTIME distribution disks, the signal handling exension is also made available here separately for those users who need the runtime support Signal handling but do not want the full C68 system.

• QPTR Companion Disk

  Tutorial and examples on how to write C programs to use the Pointer Environment. Note that to make sense of this it is essential that you have a copy of the QPTR documentation - available from Jochen Merz if you have not already got a copy.
  • The original Tony Tebby Tutorial
    Source and documentation 160Kb
    
  • George Gwilt's extensions and improvements
    Source and documentation 67Kb (February 2000)

• QL Profiler

  This is potentially a powerful tool (developed by Francois Lanciault) that will allow you to identify which parts of your program are being used the most.
  The current version does not appear to be very stable on my systems - and when it goes wrong it tends to crash the system. This download therefore includes the source so that anyone who is interested in investing time can see if they can track down the reason for the instabilities. Please pass back any findings as I would love to make this a standard feature of future C68 releases - but dare not do so until it is less likely to cause problems for prospective users. I would be just as interested for feedback from users who find that there are no problems as those who do encounter problems. Finding a common pattern in those systems that work and those that do not is likely to help pin down the cause of any problems.
  • Binaries, source and documentation 60Kb
    

• LIBCPORT library v1.37 (249Kb)

  This is library for use in conjunction with the Digital Precision CPORT product.

  CPORT is a Superbasic to C converter. It does quite a good job on the basic conversion of the standard Superbasic language constructs and data types. However many of the Superbasic keywords get converted into calls on underlying library routines, and these are not included as standard with CPORT. The LIBCPORT library supplies these missing routines.

  There were a number of points in the original CPORT program where the output code produced was not optimal for inputting into a C compiler. The LIBCPORT package also includes the CFIX program. CFIX is a program that is run as a post-processor on the C source produced by LIBCPORT to improve the conversion process.

  The LIBCPORT library can also be of use to those Superbasic programmers who wish to start with C, but who do not have the CPORT product. For such users, the LIBCPORT library can simply be used as a standard C library that provides routines whose behaviour mimics that of many of the SuperBasic keywords.

• CURSES Companion disk (173Kb)

  The main C68 issues disks contain the binaries and source for the LIBCURSES library. This is additional material including documentation utilities and examples that may be usefulto those who are trying to write new curses based programs.

  Note that the QDOS Curses implementation is directly based on the Unix/Posix definitions for such facilties so any material that refers to those variants should also be relevant to the QDOS implementation.

George Gwilt Extras

George Gwilt has developed a number of additions for use with the standard c68 system. Most of these ship with the standard c68 releases, but George is u[dting them on a regular basis.

This site will have the latest version that I have tested for use with c68 of the following items:

For the very latest version of any of these items, please visit George's Download pages on nthe SQLUG site.. These pages may also probably contain additional items that are not listed here.

• FPSAVE - FPU Support for QDOS v1.19 (13th March 2000)

  George Gwilt's extensions for QDOS to support hardware Floating Point.

  This adds to all variants of QDOS (including Minerva, SMS2, SMSQ and SMSQ/E) save/restore of the FPU context when task switching occurs, and also a generic QDOS port that caters for all the different Motorola FP Support packages.

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 47Kb
    

  N.B. FPSAVE requires a 68020 or better processor.

• GWASS Assembler v4.13 (7th February 2001)

  This is George Gwilt's GWASS assembler program.

  The original C68 4.24 release included v3.32 of the GWASS assembler, and the 4.24f release includes v4.3. They both included the binaries and documentation only - not the source. There have been quite a few changes since the 4.24f release to make certain the c68 and GWASS work together correctly. If you intend to use c68 with GWASS it is therefore highly recommended that you make certain that you have the latest c68 and GWASS binaries available from this page.

  GWASS is an Assembler that supports the full instruction set for all the processors in the 68000 family up to and including the 68060.

  The following downloads are available:

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 66Kb
    
  • Extra documentation 41Kb
    Some documentation on the Motorola 68K family instruction set. May be of interest to assembler programmers who do not have copies to the official Motorola documentation.

  N.B. GWASS requires a 68020 or better processor.  If you do not have this you may be better trying to use GWASL

• GWASL Assembler (Lite) v1.6 (26th February 2001)

  Variant of George Gwilts GWASS assembler that is restricted to handling the 68000/68008 instruction set and that will run on such machines (the full version requires a 68020 or better).

  The following downloads are available:

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 13Kb
    

• GWDISS Dis-assembler v2.22 (19th July 1999)

  This is George Gwilt's GWDISS dis-assembler program.

  GWDISS is a disassembler that supports the full instruction set for all the processors in the 68000 family up to and including the 68060.

  The following downloads are available:

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 9Kb

  N.B. GWDISS requires a 68020 or better processor.

• NETPEEK debugging aid v3.30 (26th February 2001)

  This is George Gwilt's NETPEEK debugging aid. It is designed for those who have two or more QDOS (or compatible) systems connected via a network. The idea is that you run the program under test on one system while you run NETPEEK on the other system to look at the system under test. NETPEEK provides a range of facilities from looking at the memory of the remote machine and also includes a built in version of the GWDISS dis-assembler. It is particularily useful if the code you are debugging runs in supervisor mode.

  The following downloads are available:

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 21Kb

• GWDISP Directory displayer v3.6 (29th August 2000)

  This is George Gwilt's GWDISP directory display program.

  The following downloads are available:

  • Change History which you can view online. A copy of this file is also included with the binaries download below.
  • Binaries and documentation 6Kb

  
  

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  Programmers Tools

  This section covers a number of standard programmers tools that have been ported to QDOS/SMS from other operating systems (typically Unix like systems). These tools are in no way specific to C68, but could be of use to C68 developers. The Ones currently available are:

  RCS Source Control System
  GNU Diff
  Patch
  Indent
  Elvis Editor
  GNU Text Utilities

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  • GNU Revision Control System (RCS) v5.6 (561Kb)

    This is a port of the GNU Revision Control System (RCS) v5.6 to QDOS. Note that it includes a simplified version of indent - more functional version is included later in this page.

    If you do not want the full download then the following partial downloads are available:

    • Binaries (309Kb)
    • Documentation (74Kb)
    • Source (179Kb)
    To use RCS you will also need a copy of GNU diff as described below.

     

  • GNU Diff v2.4 (432Kb)

    This is a port of GNU diff v2.4 to QDOS. The original port was done by Erling Jacobsen. I have added some documentation and recompiled it with the latest version of C68 and its associated libraries.

    If you do not want the full download then the following partial downloads are available:

    • Binaries (105Kb)
    • Documentation (148Kb) This is the original Linux documentation it has not been reformatted for QDOS so may be little hard to read!
    • Source (177Kb)

     

  • Patch v2.0 (56Kb)

    This is a port of patch v2.0 Patchlevel 12 to QDOS. Patch is a program that is intended to be used in conjunction with diff as described above. It automates applied "context diff's" to a source file. This is often used to allow one to only distribute the differences between versions of source code (which are typically much smaller than the full source) with a safe way of applying the update to the previous release.

    If you do not want the full download then the following partial downloads are available:

    • Binaries (28Kb)
    • Source (27Kb)

     

  Indent v2.2.0 (252Kb)

  This is a port of the GNU indent program to QDOS. The port was done by Jonathan Hudson. Indent is a program that can take C source and apply layout rules (defined by the user) to ensure a consistent layout style to all your source programs. You can also take source provided by someone else and autoamtically convert it to your favourite layout style.

   

  • ELVIS editor

    If you want more general information on Elvis and the variants we have produced then please refer to the separate Elvis page.

    The following files relevant to the QDOS port are available for download:

    • Binary for QDOS/SMSQ (128Kb)
    • Documentation (61Kb) (QL Quill format)
    • Source (421Kb)

     

  • GNU Text Utilities v1.9 (684Kb)

    This is a port of the GNU Text Utilities v1.9 to QDOS/SMS.
    These utilities ported very easily, so It is probably time that a new port was done of the very latest version but I have not got around to doing this!

    If you do not want the full download then the following partial downloads are available:

    • Binaries (427Kb)
    • Source (36Kb)
    • Source (222Kb)

     

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