Tiny C Compiler tcc for win32

TinyCC ====== This file contains specific information for usage of TinyCC under MS-Windows. See tcc-doc.html to have all the features. Compilation from source: ------------------------ * You can use the MinGW and MSYS tools available at http://www.mingw.org Untar the TCC archive and type in the MSYS shell: ./configure make make install The default install location is c:\Program Files\tcc * Alternatively you can compile TCC with just GCC from MinGW using win32\build-tcc.bat To install, copy the entire contents of the win32 directory to where you want. Installation from the binary ZIP package: ----------------------------------------- Unzip the package to a directory of your choice. (Note that the binary package does not include libtcc. If you want TCC as dynamic code generator, please use the source code distribution.) Set the system PATH: -------------------- To be able to invoke the compiler from everywhere on your computer by just typing "tcc", please add the directory containing tcc.exe to your system PATH. Examples: --------- Open a console window (DOS box) and 'cd' to the examples directory. For the 'Fibonacci' example type: tcc fib.c For the 'Hello Windows' GUI example type: tcc hello_win.c for the 'Hello DLL' example type tcc -shared dll.c tiny_impdef dll.dll (optional) tcc hello_dll.c dll.def Import Definition Files: ------------------------ To link with Windows system DLLs, TCC uses import definition files (.def) instead of libraries. The included 'tiny_impdef' program may be used to make additional .def files for any DLL. For example: tiny_impdef.exe opengl32.dll Put opengl32.def into the tcc/lib directory. Specify -lopengl32 at the TCC commandline to link a program that uses opengl32.dll. Header Files: ------------- The system header files (except _mingw.h) are from the MinGW distribution: http://www.mingw.org/ From the windows headers, only a minimal set is included. If you need more, get MinGW's "w32api" package. Resource Files: --------------- TCC can link windows resources in coff format as generated by MinGW's windres.exe. For example: windres -O coff app.rc -o appres.o tcc app.c appres.o -o app.exe Tiny Libmaker: -------------- The included tiny_libmaker tool by Timovj Lahde can be used as 'ar' replacement to make a library from several object files: tiny_libmaker [rcs] library objectfiles ... Limitations: ------------ - On the object file level, currently TCC supports only the ELF format, not COFF as used by MinGW and MSVC. It is not possible to exchange object files or libraries between TCC and these compilers. However libraries for TCC from objects by TCC can be made using tiny_libmaker or MinGW's ar. - No leading underscore is generated in the ELF symbols. - With DLLs, only functions (not data) can be im-/exported. - Bounds checking (option -b) is not supported currently. - 64-bit systems are not (yet) supported. Documentation and License: -------------------------- TCC is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. (See COPYING file or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html) TinyCC homepage is at: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ WinAPI Help and 3rd-party tools: -------------------------------- The Windows API documentation (Win95) in a single .hlp file is available on the lcc-win32 site as "win32hlp.exe" or from other locations as "win32hlp_big.zip". A nice RAD tool to create windows resources (dialog boxes etc.) is "ResEd", available at the RadASM website. --- grischka