Best C compiler to get back into AmigaOS coding?

[codevark]

Heya! My first coding experience was on an A1000 in 1985, using (IIRC) Lattice C. Later moved onto more high-level/scripty stuff like CanDO and ARexx. Any coders out there? What's the best compiler to use these days? Just snagged Oosterkamp's book.

codevark

[codevark]

hmm.. looks like the book assumes OS3.9 right from the start, as it describes downloading the NDK for 3.9. Guess I'll look into that.

[sikosis]

I'm not sure what the best is, but I've been dabbling with SAS C 6.5 which can be found here.

I wish I knew about C when I was on the Amiga as I only ever did stuff in BASIC, then Hi-Soft Pascal but also played around with CanDO as well. Nowadays I mainly program in PHP, C# and Objective-C on Macs and PCs.

[codevark]

Maybe it was SAS C, and not Lattice - sounds familiar. Thanks for the link! CanDo could have been a killer app if things were to have gone differently. It was basically the early Amiga equivalent of the later (PC) Delphi (another language I have a lot of experience in, long story) - Eddie Churchill who was a CanDo dev went to work for Borland and contributed to Delphi.. and so history is written, winding its way through our lives. I'm working on getting an old website of mine "CanDo Corral" back up and accessible. Hopefully before summer.

[BloodyCactus]

cross compiling with VBCC is imo the best way.

[grshaw]

Maybe it was SAS C, and not Lattice - sounds familiar

SAS and Lattice C are the same product IIRC. I believe that it was first known as Lattice C and then later re-branded to SAS C. I also learnt to code in C on using Lattice C.

[JoeUser]

Maybe it was SAS C, and not Lattice - sounds familiar. Thanks for the link! CanDo could have been a killer app if things were to have gone differently. It was basically the early Amiga equivalent of the later (PC) Delphi (another language I have a lot of experience in, long story) - Eddie Churchill who was a CanDo dev went to work for Borland and contributed to Delphi.. and so history is written, winding its way through our lives. I'm working on getting an old website of mine "CanDo Corral" back up and accessible. Hopefully before summer.

Now, dabbling in CanDo sounds interesting to me, as I recently picked up a complete package. But, it seemed a little limiting, from an initial scan of the manual (simply creating many "hyper-card"-like canned windows from templates). Haven't dug down too deeply in it yet, to see just how much customization of code is possible. Anyway, it was interesting enough to add to my software collection to play with some day.

I'd be interested to view your resurrected site, please post progress updates!

[codevark]

Thanks for the infos! I'll check out vbcc, as it seems to be fairly recent/maintained.

CanDo is deeper than it first looks. If you can manage to find a copy of the CanDo SDK, it gets deeper - you can actually create self-modifying decks. Apparently AX1 does this trick under the hood, but the SDK opens up this capability to the casual user. As I mentioned, the biggest limitation is the inability to access system libraries. TBS, you can still do an awful lot with the base pkg. (If we only had the source code!)

I have a list of things to do a mile long, and getting the Corral back on line is one of them. First I need to get my brain back into webdev mode after quite a long period of doing just about everything else.