Hi,

I think it would be nice if I could compile the TOS utilities
(loadbsd.ttp, aptck.ttp, etc) for NetBSD/atari under NetBSD, instead
of requiring a cross-compilation setup or compilation under MiNT.

There is precedent for this sort of thing:  under NetBSD/i386 the DOS
utilities such as dosboot.com and netboot.com are compiled in a NetBSD
environment.

As a proof-of-concept, I've managed to compile a "hello, world"
program under NetBSD/atari and run it through an aout2tos conversion
program I wrote, similar to the elf2aout and elf2ecoff utilities used
under NetBSD/pmax.

Actually getting real programs to compile in this manner would be a
lot of work.  Does anyone else think this is a good idea?  If so, i'll
persue it further.  I'd hate to do all the work only to find out that
it would never be integrated into the tree.

Cheers,
entropy

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