[Tinycc-devel] Building native tcc for Windows

[Christian Jullien]

Hi all, few months ago, Grischka took the time (and had the patience) to explain me how to build native tcc Windows from Cygwin.

(see thread [Tinycc-devel] Push reproducible builds script? (for windows))

 

I recognize it works. That’s’ why I accepted to remove the Makefile I wrote in win32 directory.

 

However, I still find my Makefile very useful to build, test and generate tar.gz. I use it to test almost every commit to check for potential regressions.

 

I’ve just made this side project https://sourceforge.net/projects/wintcc/ for those who liked this Makefile.

 

Here is how you can get a native Windows tcc using Cygwin+gcc bootstrapping.

 

$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git

Cloning into 'tinycc'...

$ cd tinycc/win32

#

# Get Makefile for cygwin from wintcc project

#

$ svn cat svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/wintcc/svn/cygwin/Makefile > Makefile

$ make

Bootstrapping 32bits and 64bits tools with gcc -m64

Building lib/libtcc1-32.a with tcc -m32

Building lib/libtcc1-64.a with tcc -m64

Rebuild using tcc itself - default 64bits

252 -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 me None 257536 Apr  8 08:02 i386-win32-tcc.exe

320 -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 me None 325120 Apr  8 08:02 tcc.exe

320 -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 me None 325120 Apr  8 08:02 x86_64-win32-tcc.exe

$ make test

make[1]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/f/tinycc/tests'

------------ hello-exe ------------

/cygdrive/f/tinycc/win32/tcc ../examples/ex1.c -o hello && ./hello || (set -x; ../tcc -vv; ldd ../tcc; exit 1)

Hello World

------------ hello-run ------------

/cygdrive/f/tinycc/win32/tcc -run ../examples/ex1.c || (set -x; ../tcc -vv; ldd ../tcc; exit 1)

Hello World

...

PPTest 19 ...

PPTest 20 ...

PPTest 21 ...

PPTest pp-counter ...

$ make tarball

$ ls -ls tcc-0.9.27-x86_64-win32.tar.gz

712 -rw-rw-r--+ 1 me None 725827 Apr  8 09:04 tcc-0.9.27-x86_64-win32.tar.gz

 

You can install tcc-0.9.27-x86_64-win32.tar.gz standalone tcc native compiler on

any Windows machine.