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- DICE SYSTEM
-
- V2.06.21
- 29 April 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 $5 beyond your cost for your time)
-
- DICE consists of a frontend, preprocessor, C compiler, assembler, and
- linker, and support libraries all written by myself.
-
- Source to the DICE binaries is not included.
-
- 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 ShareWare version of DICE, obtained from the
- public nets, it is missing one vital items: 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:
-
- CATS
- 1200 Wilson Drive
- West Chester, PA 19380
- USA
-
- (215)431-9100
-
- Include a check for $20 and request that you want the AmigaDOS V1.3
- Native Developer Update.
-
- 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
- functions, such as afp(), CreateTask(), and DeleteTask() are
- missing. The utility FDTOLIB was used to generate the library
- from the 1.3 .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:
-
- 1> setenv DCCOPTS "-1.3"
- 1> setenv DCCOPTS "-1.3 -f"
- 1> setenv DCCOPTS "-2.0"
-
- If you are running under 1.3 you must use one of the first two
- enviroment variables. You can use "-f" ONLY if you are running the
- standard commodore shell, this speeds up execution of RESIDENT
- DICE executables.
-
- If you are running under 2.0 you must use the third variable.
-
- 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
-
- 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
-
- -------------------------- 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/
-
- !!
-
- -------------------------- 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
-
- UNIMPLEMENTED IN EITHER VERSION (WORK IN PROGRESS)
-
- * structure returns are not implemented yet
- * stack aggregate initialization of arrays and structures is not
- implemented yet (an ANSI thing)
-
- 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.
-
- The registered shareware version of DICE may NOT be redistributed.
- Refer to COPYRIGHT.DOC for the full rights.
-
-