Compile request

[spyro1st]

Hi i need a lib compiled but i can't get the compiler instructions right because i know too less about this stuff. here is the link to the source code. a header file for x86 GCC is included it's called mirdef.lnx. a bash script called linux takes this header file an trys to compile, but i allways get errors. maybe somebody here knows enough about the PPC architecture to compile this.

ftp://ftp.computing.dcu.ie/pub/crypto/miracl.zip

Thanks for help in advance.

Greets Kevin Moschallski

[_savage]

Heya,

what's that library for?

I had a look at the sources: it looks to me that there is no support for a PowerPC host. There are assembly sources included for Sparc, ARM and x86 architectures. If you need that library compiled for PowerPC, I think you'd need to sit down and rewrite the relevant source code files for PowerPC yourself

Cheers,
Jens
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Jens Troeger
http://savage.light-speed.de/

[spyro1st]

i need this lib to compile a blowfish plugin for xchat. i saw the ARM and other headers but i thought that these are only examples and because most of the source is in assembler it should possible to compile on powerpc. i will try to contact the author of the lib and ask him if it's possible to compile on powerpc. thanks for the look.

greets Kevin Moschallski

[_savage]

you can't just "compile" assembly source for a different machine. assembly are basically the instructions for a specific processor, and every processor has different instructions wich have their own encoding. if you want to port assembly source to a new machine, you will end up implementing everything anew!

alternatively, sit down and rewrite the assembly source in, say, C or C++ and then you'll be able to compile it on many different machines.

cheers,
jens
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Jens Troeger
http://savage.light-speed.de/