Changeset 224 for trunk/README

Timestamp:

Dec 30, 2010, 12:21:49 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

dmik

Message:

README: Mention the requirement of ILINK 5.0.

File:

• trunk/README (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/README

@@ -5 +5 @@
 Requirements (draft)
 
-1.  GCC 4.4.4 + WLINK (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/tools/gcc-4_4_4-complete-20100712.zip)
+1a. GCC 4.4.4 + WLINK (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/tools/gcc-4_4_4-complete-20100712.zip)
+1b. ILINK 5.0 (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/warpzilla/ilink50.zip)
 2.  Odin32 SDK (take from SVN at http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/odin32/trunk,
     configure with configure.cmd --use-oldlib)
@@ -20 +21 @@
 and then use env.cmd to set it up.
 
+Note that you must set the linker type to "VAC308" in gcc444.cmd and make sure
+that you have ILINK.EXE somewhere in PATH (by default, gcc444.cmd is set to
+"WLINK" but the latest HLL-enabled version of it is bogus: it creates wrong
+internal fixups when building the release version of AWT.DLL). Note that the
+original ILINK from VAC308 is bogus too (will crash when linking a debug version
+of JVM.DLL) so it should not be used. Note that ILINK 5.0 is also bogus (it
+fails if there is too much external symbols to export) but Java doesn't hit this
+limit so it's the best choice so far.
+
 It is recommended to download ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/tools/se11.zip to
 have env.cmd called automatically whenever you enter "se something" in any