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I've tried to get LCC to work on barebones 65265 mcu but the task is next to impossible, thanks to wings deps.
However, on random surfing I found http://store.syndicomm.com/index.php?ma ... ucts_id=62 which will run on http://kegs.sf.net apple IIgs emulator with apple abandonware license system 6 and allows own libs, is full ide etc.
Is the usd 40 too much to pay for such nice piece of software?

You could search ebay or something to see if someone is selling a cheaper copy, but beyond that, it comes down to whether $40 is worth it to you. If you need a C compiler and don't want (or have the time) to add support for the 65816 to LCC or GCC, then ORCA/C may be the simplest way to get from point A to point B. There probably won't be any support for it, but it's a mature product (and was, I believe, relatively popular for a C compiler), so there shouldn't be too much in the way of bugs. It doesn't appear that source code is provided, so you may want to consider whether you'll want/need to modify the compiler itself.

I never used the ORCA products, but they provided a UNIX-like environment for the Apple IIgs, and were oriented around using the Apple IIgs toolbox routines (as such, it uses that style of parameter passing). There weren't many C compilers available for any of the Apple II models, so I don't know how well (if at all) it optimizes code, if that's important to you. ORCA/M is the corresponding macro assembler, and I there may have been an ORCA/Pascal product as well -- I don't remember for sure.

That's my $0.02.

got orca C around somewhewre, enever did use it though. Thanks on the KEGS linking, it shows a game I did music for, Wolf 3D. Ah, memories

Did you have a look at Toshi Morita's LCC port? It's on this site under Tools/Compilers. It seems that it isn't quite complete* but might be a good starting point?

Ed

* see viewtopic.php?p=5017&highlight=#5017

It outputs a file that uses some ORCA/M macros, and I forgot to include the ORCA/M macros in that package.

I'll try to resurrect my Apple //gs to see if I can find the disk with the macros on them. It may take a while, as I haven't used the //gs in a while, and I'm not sure if I still have a valid GS/OS boot disk around.

Toshi

That would be great!

Cheers
Ed

Very interesting development: Ulrich Hecht has added a 65816 backend to Fabrice Bellard's Tiny CC, and modified the WLA macro-assembler to suit.

It's for SNES but I hope it isn't too difficult to tweak it for other 65816 systems (in my case, emulated systems)

http://code.google.com/p/snes-sdk/

"SNES-SDK is a C toolchain and libraries targeting 65816 systems, specifically the Super NES (aka Super Nintendo, Super Famicom). It consists of a version of TCC equipped with a 65816 code generator and modified versions of WLA-DX (assembler and linker) and SNES9x (emulator for running the test suite). It is extremely hacky and very unpolished, but it passes a substantial part of the GCC test suite and even has floating-point support."

Been a while as I've had time for belowed hobby...
I purchased the Orca/C setup and installed it to kegs hard drive image.
I'm currently trying to get a grip again on C language itself as well as how Orca works in general to be able to get standard library built for '265 target.
Can't say I'm that much of a hardware or even low level software person so I try to go from where the fence is lowest or has hole it in the designs :D