classiccmp-digest V1 #915

From: Alan Pearson <alan.pearson_at_cramer.com>
Date: Wed Apr 10 04:17:15 2002

> I actually would be very suprised if you could strip things
> down enough to have a 'usable' system with the core 3.3 Developer
> installed in under 100MB. Afterall, that would have to include the
> swapfile as well as user space for whatever project you were working
> on. I don't have a lot of extra stuff installed on mine, mainly just
> CAPer, and the full NS 3.3 User and Developer isntalled takes nearly
> 300MB.

It's early days for me on NeXTs, so I don't know a whole lot about the
development environment yet :-) Looking at the developer docs on channelu
I got thinking that since the libraries are already there all I *really*
need to start hacking about are the usual cc/ld/gdb tools (I could live
without make, ar, nm etc) and the includes for the APIs. In theory I
should be able to make all of these myself - I've got lots of versions
of the GNU tools source lying around, it should be easy to build 68k
versions of the ones I need, and I could cobble the includes together on
an "as needed" basis using the developer docs and example code on the net
as a starting point. Painful, but - here's the question - possible?

Al.
Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 04:17:15 BST