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

[Joel Ewy]

On 03/27/2013 08:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
I'm using lha211c.bin.  Still not sure why it chokes on the cc252.lzh 
archive (it does successfully extract others), but I did get ahold of a 
working binary, so that problem is moot for the moment.  Thanks, Gene.

JCE