Cross-tools

[Paul Koning]

> On Jun 28, 2022, at 5:25 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:03 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for cross tools for PDP11.  I know of macro11, and have been feeding Olaf assorted fixes.
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> I built my own LIBR (in Python, that was easy enough).
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> So now I'm looking for LINK and TKB.  I found this: https://github.com/nzeemin/pclink11 but it says no overlay support and may never happen.  Are there others, and is there any overlay support?
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> What about a cross-TKB?
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> My hope is to be able to cross-build all of RSTS that is in assembly language.
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> When I did the 2.11BSD restoration project, I used the apout emulator to run assemblers, linkers, etc.
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> Are there any user-mode emulators that support RSTS/E system calls?

Not that I know of, and most of the RSTS utilities are in PDP-11 assembly language.  So I can run things on SIMH, of course, but cross-builds are much faster.  Running the RSTS kernel and loader through the cross macro11 takes only about 8 seconds of CPU time.

	paul