BaCon on modded XBOX1.1?

[Pjot]

But a next compilation:
/bin/bash-3.2/bash bacon -c gcc <program>

gives the cryptic error message 'usr/bin/bacon: cannot execute binary'. Is there a way to error trace this?

I guess you can just run the binary itself, without using bash, e.g.:

bacon -c gcc <program>

BR,
Peter

[linuph]

Peter, I will look into that soon. I didn't check the forum lately nor did I any Bacon programming, since I have been working on improving the display quality of the XBOX. That involved mainly additional hardware modifications.

Today I succeeded in running XDSL in 720P HDTV resolution. A huge improvement compared to S-video, of course, and a WOW-experience Now it makes even more sense to experiment with Bacon.

More news from my side soon.

BTW, great to have a new Bacon version! Thanks and congrats!

[linuph]

Progress ;D I had to redo some hardware modifications. Now XDSL is running reliably on 720P HDTV resolution. As a note: XBMC4XBOX (previously XBMC) runs beautifully in 1080i HDTV resolution and original XBOX games can be run as usual.

I downloaded BaCon v2 and hug.bac.

Compiled bacon.bac:
/bin/bash-3.2/bash bacon.bash -c gcc bacon.bac

Note: one needs to call in BASH 3.2 from a separate directory since XDSL (v 0.7 beta 5) only supports BASH 2.05.

Then, to compile a bac script:
bacon -c gcc -o -s -o -Os -o -fdata-sections -o -ffunction-sections -o -Wl,--gc-sections <script>

This per advice of Peter/vovchick, except that I added -c gcc. A lot faster and smaller! However, I get a warning message:

Warning: gc-sections option ignored

So I don't know if the result is really optimized.

Then compressed:
upx -9 -o upxcompressed <script>
mv upxcompressed <script>

So far I successfully compiled 15puzzle.bac, gdf.bac, clock.bac.

I noticed that the compiled bacon.bash does not offer to clean up the *.h *.c etc. files after a failed compilation.
However, bacon.bash will delete any *.h *.c etc. file in its directory: I made the mistake of putting bacon in /usr/local/bin and lost all *.h *.c etc. files, crashing XDSL (anyway, I think that's what happened... :. So I put bacon in its own unique directory, as I should have done from the beginning...

XDSL installation: one needs to download/install from the DSL repository:

- gnu-utils.dsl
- gcc-2.95
- gcc1.dsl
- gcc1-with-libs.dsl
- gtk2-0705.dsl
- gtk+-2.12.9.uci
- bash 3.2.ucl
- bacon.bash (v2)
- hug.bac

Question:
I compiled hug.bac to further shorten compilation time and file size but don't know how to use it in a bac script. Advice?

[alexfish]

Hi linuph

for using hug.so
there is a small script here
www.basic-converter.org/hug_imports.bac

then need to put aline at the head of the .bac file

INCLUDE "hug_imports.bac"

in Bacon there is a makedir + delete recursive command

DELETE

MAKEDIR <directory>
Type: statement
Creates and empty directory. Parent directories are created implicitly. If the directory already exists then it is recreated. Errors like write permissions, disk quota issues and so on can be captured with CATCH. Example:
MAKEDIR "/tmp/mydir/is/here"

DELETE <FILE|DIRECTORY|RECURSIVE> <x$>
Type: statement
Deletes a file with the FILE argument, or an empty directory when using the DIRECTORY argument. The RECURSIVE argument can delete a directory containing files. It can also delete a complete directory tree. If an error occurs then this can be captured by using the CATCH statement. Example:
DELETE FILE "/tmp/data.txt"
DELETE RECURSIVE "/usr/data/stuff"

possible a small script using SYSTEM command or EXEC$

EG

MAKEDIR "/tmp/mydir/is/here"
compile$=CONCAT$("bacon -d /tmp/mydir/is/here", " my.bac")

SYSTEM compile$

DELETE RECURSIVE "/tmp/mydir/is/here"

Not sure about the warnings

Warning: gc-sections option ignored

HTH

Alex

[linuph]

Some progress:

The --gc-sections option is not supported on my system. This causes a compiler warning:

Warning: gc-sections option ignored


Any temporary *.c *.h etc. files are not removed (as if an error was detected). I now use the --no-gc-sections in stead:

bacon -c gcc -o -s -o -Os -o -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -o -Wl,--no-gc-sections


No warnings or errors and, as a bonus, executables are a couple of K smaller (e.g. qix is now ~28K iso ~34K previously).


Including 'hug_imports.bac' doesn't work yet for me: I get a conversion error. I'll find out what's up....