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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred Martin)
Subject: updated Mini Board libraries for icc11 compiler
Message-ID: <1993Nov18.064347.4948@news.media.mit.edu>
Keywords: miniboard icc11
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Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 06:43:47 GMT
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Dear net Mini Board users:

I've worked a bit on Dennis Venable's port of the Mini Board libraries
for icc11.  The new library is ready to roll with Richard Man's recent
0.3 version of icc11.

The Mini Board library file is in pub/incoming/icc11/minilib.s.  To
install, you replace the default run-time library file (crt.s) with
minilib.s; i.e., you rename minilib.s to be crt.s.  That's it for
installation. 

The icc11 compiler is pretty cool.  It's quite easy to use; you just
say "icc11 myfile.c" and it compiles your file and links it with the
run-time library file.  If you have additional C or assembly files you
would like linked in, you add them in the command line; e.g., "icc11
mainfile.c somelibs.s"

All of the Mini Board functions described in the doc's are in the
minilib.s file (with the exception of shaft encoders and motor
beeping), so it's a pretty functional solution.

I encourage any Mini Board user who (a) has a PC or SoftPC setup and
(b) hasn't bought Dunfield's Micro-C to download icc11 and start
playing with it.  It's a big win.

	-Fred

P.S. Oh by the way I've fixed the reverse-argument problem, so you no
longer have to deal with this.  The arguments to the Mini Board
functions are just as documented.
-- 
Fred Martin | fredm@media.mit.edu | (617) 253-5108 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-320
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab     | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
