John, If your laptop is running Windows, then the easiest way to compile everything is with the Mingw compiler. Just install Mingw (one time deal) and then there's a batch file distributed with the SIMH source to compile all the binaries. Pretty much automated (except that you have to make a "bin" directory, the batch file doesn't make it, and if you don't, it will "look" like everything is compiling but you'll get no executables!) I can also just E-mail to you (or anyone) the executables you want compiled for Windows. Much easier than compiling them yourself, if you don't care to get involved in that. - Bob -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John Lawson Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:27 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Simple C compiler advice? Okey-dokey. I have now got all the nice SIMH packages stashed neatly away on the Trusty Laptop. Obviously, they must be compiled. In terms of software, I am an appliance operator. I have had very minimal experience with C programming, mostly in the 'hello world' levels of complexity, and that years ago. Therefore, what would recommendations be for a simple, cheap/free, plain old C package that I could use to compile these simulators? I understand the basic idea behind the process, but it's been many years since I compiled anything, save for the tiny Fortran demo program in the RSX11M docs... I am not going to use it for 'real' programming, just to make a PDP-faux-11 on my Wintel Lap-Puter. T I A John

John, If your laptop is running Windows, then the easiest way to compile everything is with the Mingw compiler. Just install Mingw (one time deal) and then there's a batch file distributed with the SIMH source to compile all the binaries. Pretty much automated (except that you have to make a "bin" directory, the batch file doesn't make it, and if you don't, it will "look" like everything is compiling but you'll get no executables!)