[Coco] C Compiler Executive -- Which one? One that works!

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 March 2013 21:36:00 Joel Ewy did opine:

> I'm trying to get a C compiler working again after a very long time.
> I'm currently using a CoCo3 with a DriveWire 4 server.  The stock cc1 is
> hard coded to try to do something or other with /d1, which I do not
> want.  I know I once used a cc2 or some such that looked for everything
> on /dd.
> 
> I thought I'd try cc2.5.2, but I'm having trouble unpacking it.  Two
> copies of the file with slightly different file names, from two
> different sources, but which cmp tells me are identical files (one from
> Gene's site and the other from rtsi.com) fail when I try to extract the
> binary with lha:
> 
> Melting cc252.obj    ooooo.
> Can't read file : '../cc_2_5_2.lzh'
> LHA Error #2
> ERROR #001
> 
> The other files in the archive extract just fine.  I retrieved both of
> them over DriveWire.  Can anybody else extract the binary from these
> files?  Do we have two bad copies of the file out there, or should I
> wade further into archiver hell and use some other program to try to
> extract cc252.obj?
> I would just go ahead and build it from the source file that did
> extract, but, something about chickens and eggs.
> 
> Also tried Rick Adams' cc2, but it bombed out with
> "bad code in intermediate file: 69"
> 
> JCE

I think its possible your lha is too old, IIRC it should be 2.11?

Cheers, Gene
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