Information in this page updated: 06 Dec 96
This CD contains virtually all the tools you need to get started programming on the Amiga, including advanced C, C++, Fortran, and ADA compilers, assembler, linker, EMACS editor, 'make', source code control system (rcs & cvs), text and file utilities , GNU debugger, text formatters (groff & TeX), and more. Also included are beta test versions of ports in progress, like a port of the X Window System (X16.1).
Everything comes with complete source code and all the binaries have been compiled from the supplied sources. All tools on the Geek Gadgets CD can be run directly from the CD-ROM, without the need to install any files on your hard drive.
From: Fred FishSubject: Geek Gadgets INSTALL script Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 19:13:00 Message-ID: <57f8et$4f6@toadfish.ninemoons.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: A Red Hat Linux Site NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.33.11 We've just discovered, thanks to feedback from a couple of people, that libnix does not get installed from the CD when you run the installer in expert or intermediate mode and it allows you to select specific packages. This is because a text prompt is three lines instead of two, which causes the installer to only display 7 of the 8 available packages. It does not provide any indication that there is a problem laying out the selection window; it just silently throws away the last selection. The easiest workaround is to simply install libnix by hand. The archive is in the ADE-alpha directory and can just be extracted directly into the ADE: directory. Don't use the one from ADE-dist, since it was not compiled with the latest compiler included on the CD. A fixed INSTALL script will be available shortly. -Fred