Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!julian!uwovax!7103_300 From: 7103_300@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Metacomco make under gulam Message-ID: <480@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 9 Jul 88 09:30:34 GMT References: <811@dlhpedg.co.uk> Lines: 57 Organisation: University of Western Ontario, Canada In article <811@dlhpedg.co.uk>, cpm@datlog.co.uk (Paul Merriman) writes: > Can anyone help me with a problem I'm having using the > Metacomco 'make' utility supplied with Lattice C V3.04 ( I think the 'make' > version is 2.16 ). > I'm currently trying to port Nethack v2.2 to the atari ST and was > hoping to use MCC make under gulam to remove most of the drudgery. My > problem is that the make utility appears to have problems loading LC1.TTP > (first pass of the Lattice compilier) whilst running under gulam but > has no trouble if its run from the desk top. > > It usually fails with an error 36 or 39 - The documentation says > these are TOS errors although I haven't been able to track them down yet. > > I'm running all this on a 520stfm with two 1meg disk drives (I > upgraded the internal one), with gulam,lcc,make etc in drive A and the > sources and the makefile in drive B. I also occasionally use a ram disk > (drive D) of 100k - but I've tried it without so I don't think its lack > of memory. > > What I really wan't to know is , what do the error messages mean ? > (and where can I find a complete list) and has anyone else had problems > or success using the MCC make ? > > Alternatively, could anyone suggest a better make - preferably cheap > or PD - perhaps even a posting ? The only requirement is that it should run > under gulam with the sort of configuration I've outlined above. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Paul. Paul: There is a public domain make that you might try using (it's probably in the archives), but I doubt it would help. Tos error 39 is "out of memory", so I suspect that is, indeed, your problem. Gulam could easily be using more memory than your 100K ramdisk. In fact, I'm surprised you're having any luck at all. Have you actually managed to compile NetHack on your machine? I've been trying to port NetHack 2.3, using Laser C, and it takes me 2 double-sided floppies (for source and object), an 800K ramdisk (for compiler, temp files, and final output) and 800K of free ram. The final executable runs to ~400K. When I have a completed and debugged version, I'll post it to comp.binaries.atari.st. (Assuming it hasn't been posted already.) --Eric PS: I know there'll be a lot of people out there who will want hack soonest, but *please* wait for the posting; I have to share this account with the rest of my department, and we can't handle large volumes of mail. Nor, unfortunately, will our account let us keep 1 Meg of sources around, so I can't mail them (sorry!). Eric Smith <-- make sure my name is prominently displayed Dept. of Mathematics in any mail to me, so that the secretaries University of Western Ontario know who it belongs to! London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 ph. (519)661 3638 Reply to: MATHDEPT@UWO.CA (formerly UWO.CDN) 7103_300@uwovax.UWO.CA (formerly UWO.CDN) 7103_300@uwovax.BITNET