I've moved the git repo to here:
https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem It's effectively the same code base as the last release, except that the build scripts have been replaced with an much more updated form of the build system from LisaEm 1.3.0.
Bashbuild is intended as a general replacement to autotools for my various projects and not intended to be LisaEm only. Over time I'll add more features to it and spin it off in its own repo and give it more support.
This is a more modular build script set, which allows for parallel compiling and better source code organization. The source code tree is organized similar to the very first source code for LisaEm that I threw away, that is the folder structure matches the physical hardware of an actual Lisa (i.e. you can find the Zilog SCC, VIA, and floppy code underneath the src/lisa/io_board directory, the MMU code under the cpu_board directory and so on).
The README.md for bashbuild can be found here:
https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem/tree/master/bashbuild and describes how it works if you're curious. This build system uses good old bash (Bourne Again Shell), soft links, etc. to create a holographic or fractal, build environment. (By holographic, I mean that if you're sitting in a directory somewhere, say the bin directory, you can issue build commands that will still work because there's a link to an interim build script that goes up a directory and passes your parameters to the build script one directory higher. Also the you can contain sub builds inside your package, such as libraries or tools: see libdc42, libGenerator, and the tools directories. At each level there is a set of src, lib. obj, bin, and src/include bashbuild directories or links as appropriate, much like how holograms that are cut in half still retain the properties of the whole, or how zooming in to a fractal shows you self-similar things.)
I've also started adding builds for Windows via Cygwin, but these don't yet work - the executable is produced, but it's not statically linked, and fails to startup, so needs some debugging. If you're familiar with mingw and writing code on Windows, I'd very much welcome a bit of debugging help there.There are scripts inside the scripts directory to help install Cygwin packages including the mingw compiler, and once Cygwin is installed a download script inside the scripts folder can be used to download pre-compiled wxmsw headers and libraries which can be used to build under Cygwin.
There is a provision to allow targeting LisaEm for Cygwin itself, though this hasn't been fleshed out, so if for some reason you'd want to run LisaEm as a Cygwin application, rather than as a native Windows application, this will be eventually provided for.
In terms of macos or linux, the source code itself is effectively the same as that of the previous alpha released in the old github repo, except perhaps it gets rid of some warnings, and other such minor fixes.
There may be some future issues with macos, it seems Apple might get rid of bash, but I'm relying on the fact that homebrew will be used to install bash and anything else missing, including the XCode command line tools. (If Apple manages to kill off homebrew, I expect that either something else will replace homebrew or macos itself will be abandoned by developers and DevOps folks such as myself.) I don't know whether zsh is compatible enough with bash to allow bashbuild to work, I suppose this can be tested out in the future, but there are some very heavy bashisms that I rely on, including that doing source script.sh foo bar baz quux will provide $1="foo" .. $4="quux" to script.sh for example.
-- Cheers.
