HiTech C compiler extravaganza

You got HPDZ?

IIRC the (cross-development) z80 compiler/IDE isn't available for download. You have to mail them. They will send you a 30 day trail version.

The're is no windows binary its MS-DOS. Perhaps that is easier to run????

The HTC IDE runs from XP and Wind 98, never tried from Vista

D-Tail: check your mail,please.

From someone I know I received some C files, to be compiled w/ HiTech C. Well, I've looked on the HiTech C website, downloaded some programs and an IDE, installed it all, but now what? It may be worth noticing that I run a GNU/Linux system, so a Windows binary won't do the job for me

I use dosemu with a simple script and I can execute under linux without problems, even use a Makefile which use command line executable. I post here the script:

dosemu -dumb -quiet \"zc -Bc -CPM -Zg -W-9 -P8 -Ezc.err  $*\" >/dev/null 2>&1 
ret=`cat zc.err | grep error | wc -l`
cat zc.err >&2 
rm zc.err  
exit $ret

Of course you have to modify your autoexec.bat in DOS system and add these lines:

unix ln -s $PWD $DOSTMP/pwd
e:
cd pwd
unix -e

k0ga: thanks! At the moment I use DOSBOX, which works perfectly well to be honest. Although looking at your script, it seems that you've got some fancy error handling as well. So you use ZC for doing the compilation/linking job? In what aspect does it differ from HiTech C?

ZC is the command line executable of Hitech C. And I use the script to allow use ZC from linux in my own Makefiles and with the linux file tree (I prefer use xemacs instead of Hitech environment). The error handling is oriented to make program can understand when the compilation is correct or not (return 0 without errors or a postive value in other case), and it can stop the process.