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diff --git a/win32/readme.txt b/win32/readme.txt index c453a69..ee17687 100644 --- a/win32/readme.txt +++ b/win32/readme.txt @@ -1,37 +1,34 @@ - TinyCC-PE - --------- - - TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyperfast C compiler, - written by Fabrice Bellard, - + TinyCC + ====== - TinyCC-PE is the TinyCC compiler with an extension to - write PE executables for MS-Windows. + This file contains some additional information for usage of TinyCC + under MS-Windows: - Features: - --------- + Overview: + --------- + TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyperfast C compiler, written by + Fabrice Bellard. - TinyCC-PE can produce console applications, native windows - GUI programs and DLL's. + TinyCC for MS-Windows can produce console applications, native + windows GUI programs and DLL's. - Most of the features pointed out by Fabrice Bellard for the - original version are still valid, i.e: + The package with under 300kb includes a complete C-compiler with + header files and basic system library support. - - SMALL! The package with ~400kb includes a complete C-compiler - with header files for console and GUI applications. + With the -run switch you can run C-sources without any linking + directly from the command line. - - With the -run switch you can run C-sources without any - linking directly from the command line. + TinyCC can be used as dynamic code generator library in your own + program. - - TCC can of course compile itself. + TinyCC can of course compile itself. Compilation: (omit that if you use the binary ZIP package) ------------ - - You must use the MinGW and MSYS tools available at + You can use the MinGW and MSYS tools available at http://www.mingw.org to compile TCC for Windows. Untar the TCC archive and type in the MSYS shell: @@ -48,13 +45,14 @@ Installation: (from the binary ZIP package) ------------- - Just unzip the package to a directory anywhere on your computer. + + The binary package does not include libtcc. If you want tcc as + dynamic code generator, please use the source code distribution. Examples: --------- - For the 'Fibonacci' console example type from the command line: tcc examples\fib.c @@ -69,25 +67,22 @@ tcc examples\hello_dll.c examples\dll.def - Import Definitions: - ------------------- - - TinyCC-PE searches and reads import definition files similar - to libraries. + Import Definition Files: + ------------------------ + To link with Windows system DLLs, TinyCC uses import definition + files (.def) instead of libraries. - The included 'tiny_impdef' program may be used to make .def files - for any DLL, e.g for an 'opengl32.def': + The included 'tiny_impdef' program may be used to make additional + .def files for any DLL. For example: tiny_impdef.exe opengl32.dll - or to the same effect: - - tcc -run tiny_impdef.c opengl32.dll + To use it, put the opengl32.def file into the tcc/lib directory, + and specify -lopengl32 at the tcc commandline. Resource Files: --------------- - TinyCC-PE can now link windows resources in coff format as generated by MINGW's windres.exe. For example: @@ -95,32 +90,25 @@ tcc app.c appres.o -o app.exe - Header Files: - ------------- - - The system header files, except '_mingw.h', are from the - 3.7 mingw distribution. See also: http://www.mingw.org/ - - - Compile TCC: - ------------ + Tiny Libmaker: + -------------- + The included tiny_libmaker tool by Timovj Lahde can be used as + 'ar' replacement to make a library from several object files. - With TCC itself just say: - tcc src\tcc.c -o tcc.new.exe - - Other compilers like mingw-gcc or msvc work as well. - To make libtcc1.a, you need 'ar' from the mingw binutils. + Header Files: + ------------- + The system header files (except _mingw.h) are from the mingw + distribution (http://www.mingw.org/). Documentation and License: -------------------------- - TCC is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (see COPYING file). - Please read the original tcc-doc.html to have all the features - of TCC. Also visit: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ + Please read tcc-doc.html to have all the features of TCC. Also + visit: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ - -- - grischka@users.sourceforge.net + + -- grischka@users.sourceforge.net |