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- DICE SYSTEM
-
- V2.06.37
- 9 Oct 1991
-
- Matthew Dillon
- 891 Regal Rd.
- Berkeley, Ca. 94708
- USA
-
-
- USENET: uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US
-
- BIX: mdillon
-
-
- DICE (c)Copyright 1990-1991 by Matthew Dillon, All Rights Reserved
-
- Please read COPYRIGHT.DOC for info on all copyrights, trademarks, and
- other items refered to an included in the DICE distribution. This file
- exists on both distribution disks.
-
- This is the public distribution release for DICE. Under no
- circumstances may you redistribute a modified version of the
- distribution. Period. No exceptions (please?). I cannot allow this to
- get out of control. Neither may any redistribution for profit be made
- (you can charge up to $6 beyond your cost for your time)
-
- DICE consists of a frontend, preprocessor, C compiler, assembler, and
- linker, and support libraries all written by myself. A generated
- (non-commodore) 2.0 amiga.lib is included with this distribution. Note
- that you may compile 1.3 programs with the 2.0 amiga.lib as long as
- you avoid 2.0-specific calls.
-
- Source to the DICE binaries is not included (it isn't included in the
- registered version either)
-
- Source to C*.LIB and other link libraries is not included for the
- Freeware version ... they are included for the registerd version.
-
- DICE also includes my DMAKE make utility (though it should be noted
- that DMAKE is extremely difficult to learn how to use). Source is not
- available (it isn't fit to be distributed). DMAKE works best running
- under 2.0 due to the available of new system calls.
-
- This is the unregistered FreeWare version. If you find yourself using
- DICE seriously, please dig into your pockets a bit and register. DICE
- is as close to commercial quality as shareware gets and I think you
- will appreciate the kick in the rump I give various other commercial
- compilers by so easily beating them at their own game. Refer to the
- doc/REGISTER.DOC for information on registration.
-
- This is the unregistered FreeWare version of DICE, obtained from the
- public nets, and it is missing one vital item: the AMIGA INCLUDES.
- Most developers will already have these but if you do not you can
- obtain them from the Commodore Amiga Technical Support group:
-
- Commodore
- Dept. C
- 1200 Wilson Drive
- West Chester, PA. 19380
- USA
-
- (215)431-9100
-
- *** TO PURCHASE THE AMIGA INCLUDES **
-
- Include a check for $20 and request that you want the AmigaDOS V1.3
- Native Developer Update. THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS. THE OLD CATS ADDRESS
- NO LONGER HANDLES SUPPORT MATERIAL PURCHASES.
-
- NOTE THAT THE AMIGA INCLUDES AND LIBRARIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE
- REGISTERED VERSION OF DICE, BUT THE AUTODOCS ARE NOT. THEREFORE,
- IF YOU INTEND TO REGISTER YOU PROBABLY DO *NOT* WANT TO PURCHASE
- THE NATIVE DEVELOPER UPDATE FROM COMMODORE.
-
- ***
-
- NOTE: The unregistered version of DICE comes with an AMIGAS13.LIB
- library which implements most of the 1.3 AMIGA.LIB, and
- AMIGAS20.LIB which implements most of the 2.0 AMIGA.LIB. Some
- Functions, such as afp(), CreateTask(), and DeleteTask() are
- missing. The utility FDTOLIB was used to generate the library
- from the 1.3 and 2.0 .FD files plus some additional source that
- I wrote (FDTOLIB is part of the registered distribution)
-
- NOTE: without the commodore includes you are somewhat limited in
- what you can do with the freeware version. Note that the
- registered version comes with the commodore includes and full
- amiga.lib . Since the commodore includes are commodore's, I
- cannot distribute them freely, only through my license which
- restricts distribution to the registered version of DICE.
-
- IF YOU OBTAIN THE COMMODORE AMIGA.LIB, you will want to use it to
- get whatever was left out in the distributed compatible. To use
- the commodore amiga.lib, you must run it through the LIBTOS program:
-
- 1> libtos amiga.lib dlib:amigas13.lib (1.3 amiga.lib)
- 1> libtos amiga.lib dlib:amigas20.lib (2.0 amiga.lib)
-
- (note that 's' in the destination name -- small-data model version
- of amiga.lib is called amigas.lib).
-
- Since the commodore amiga.lib is more complete than the ones
- distributed here you will want to do this if you have them.
-
- -------------------------- SETTING UP DICE -------------------------
-
- DICE requires a few things to be set up properly. There are two
- principle assignments:
-
- DINCLUDE: assign to DICE's include directory
- DLIB: assign to DICE's dlib directory
-
- and there is one enviroment variable
-
- ENV:DCCOPTS DCC core compiler options
-
- Specifically, you want one of the following in your startup-sequence
- to set up the DCCOPTS enviroment variable. Since only the 2.0 amiga.lib
- is included you must specify the -2.0 option or DICE will be unable to
- link.
-
- 1> setenv DCCOPTS "-2.0"
- 1> setenv DCCOPTS "-2.0 -f"
-
- You can use "-f" ONLY if you are running the standard commodore shell,
- this speeds up execution of RESIDENT DICE executables as well as hacks
- in ^C handling under 1.3. The -f option has no effect under 2.0
-
- DICE uses the -1.3/-2.0 option to define it's search path for the
- includes and amiga.lib. If -1.3 is selected, DINCLUDE:AMIGA13 is added
- to the includes search path and DLIB:AMIGAS13.LIB is used for the
- amiga.lib. If -2.0 is selected, DINCLUDE:AMIGA20 is adde to the
- includes search path and DLIB:AMIGAS20.LIB is used for the amiga.lib ..
- the freeware release of DICE cannot include these commodore includes.
-
- If you have obtained the amiga includes, you want to set them up as
- follows (example for the 1.3 includes):
-
- DINCLUDE: (ANSI DICE and other DICE includes)
- DINCLUDE:AMIGA13/ where the 1.3 includes go
- DINCLUDE:AMIGA13/EXEC/*.H .
- DINCLUDE:AMIGA13/LIBRARIES/*.H .
- etc...
-
- Basically you Copy Includes1.3: DINCLUDE:AMIGA13 CLONE ALL
- (or similar copy for the 2.0 includes if you have them)
-
- If you obtain the 1.3 amiga.lib from commodore you may create DICE
- compatible amiga.lib's by:
-
- copy amiga.lib dlib:
- cd dlib:
- rename amiga.lib amigal13.lib ; convert to DICE nomenclature
- libtos amigal13.lib amigas13.lib ; generate small-data version
-
- If you obtain and setup the commodore 1.3 includes/amiga.lib you will
- want to change your DCCOPTS '-2.0' option to '-1.3' so DICE can find
- them. If, on the otherhand, you obtain the commodore 2.0
- includes/amiga.lib you will want to leave DCCOPTS set to '-2.0'.
-
-
- -------------------------- DYNAMIC.LIBRARY -------------------------
-
- The subdirectory 'dynamic' contains a new dynamic object management
- library to go with DICE's new __dynamic keyword. If you are interested
- in fooling around with it please CD into dynamic and read the
- documentation, and try out some of the test programs in DYNAMIC/BIN/
-
- Note that this may be lharc'd. To unarchive:
-
- 1> lharc -r -x -a x dynamic
-
- dynamic.library may be more of use for machine-global shared variables
- then for machine-global shared subroutines.
-
- !!
-
- -------------------------- MISC -------------------------
-
- Please read DOC/COMPILER.DOC for further installation instructions
-
- The documents you want to read first are:
-
- DOC/BEGINNER_README.DOC For Beginners
- DOC/COMPILER.DOC SETUP and features (overview)
- DOC/KnownBugs Things not implemented yet and known bugs
- DOC/DCC.DOC operation
- DOC/* other documentation
-
- MAN/* manual pages are available to registered
- users.
-
- DISABLED IN THE UNREGISTERED (FREEWARE) VERSION OF DICE,
- BUT EXISTS IN THE REGISTERED VERSION OF DICE
-
- * regargs
- * floating point
- * bit fields
- * manual pages for c.lib
- * source to the entire c.lib and other libraries
- * several type qualifier extensions (see EXTENSIONS.DOC)
- * source to many of the utilities (as examples)
- * additional utilities exist in the registered version
- * the commodore includes are not included in the freeware
- version but are in the registered version
-
- DICE stands for:
-
- Dillon's Integrated C Enviroment
-
- (name thought up by Dan Wallach)
-
- --------------
-
- The unregistered shareware version of DICE may be redistributed only in
- whole. Do not delete or modify any files. You may add files according
- to whatever distribution method you use or, for example, to translate
- documentation to another language, but original documentation must
- remain as well.
-
- The registered version of DICE (the one you purchase) may NOT be
- redistributed.
-
-