vbcc_installer

About

An automated build script for VBCC m68k Amiga C Compilers for Unix based systems (MacOS, Linux, etc.).

Usage

Steps to download VBCC, build it, and verify it by building a simple hello world program:

> make download
> make setup
> make hello

The compiled VBCC compiler and Amiga SDK (aka NDK) will be in the folder ./sdk.

The other folders and files can be deleted.

Installation

The compiler and the Amiga SDK (aka NDK) can be found in the sdk folder. You can then copy it to its final destination, such as the /usr/local or the /opt directory.

Finally, add the VBCC executables to the path and set the VBCC environment variable. You can do this in the config file of your shell, such as .zhrc (zsh) or .bashrc (bash)

Example, assuming installation in /opt:

export PATH=/opt/vbcc/sdk/vbcc/bin:$PATH
export VBCC=/opt/vbcc/sdk/vbcc

Changing VBCC Versions

Edit the Makefile and change the constants on top of it to download newer versions of VBCC and its targets.

Compiling Code

Before you compile, make sure the sdk/vbcc/bin is in your PATH and that the VBCC environment variable is set.

Compiling (assuming installation in /opt):

> vc -L/opt/sdk/NDK_3.9/Include/linker_libs -I/opt/sdk/NDK_3.9/Include/include_h +kick13 hello.c -lamiga -lauto -o hello

Dependencies

You need the following tools:

• a compiler, such as gcc or clang
• the make tool
• the wget tool to download VBCC
• the lha tool to extract .lha archives

On macOS you can install wget and lha via Homebrew and install XCode's command line tools to get make and a C compiler.