Hardware, Operating systems and C compilers

This table shows the C compilers and platforms on which gec has already been used successfully:

Operating System	C Compiler	Hardware	Comment
Windows 10	msc 15 (Visual Studio 2017)	x86 64-bit
Windows 10	msc 16 (Visual Studio 2019)	x86 64-bit	Using GitLab runner
Debian GNU/Linux 10	gcc 8.3.0	x86 64-bit	Using GitLab runner
Linux Ubuntu 16.04.6	gcc 5.4.0	x86 64-bit	Using Travis CI
Linux CentOS 7	gcc 4.8.5	x86 64-bit	Using SourceForge
Mac OS X 10.13.6	clang 9.1.0	x86 64-bit	Using Travis CI
Mac OS X	clang 11.0.3	x86 64-bit

Testing gec on a new platform

This section explains what to do in order to test gec on a new platform or with a new C compiler using the code from the Git repository.

First you need to check-out the code from the Gobo Git repository. Then you should set the environment variable $GOBO to the directory where you checked out the code, and add $GOBO/bin to your $PATH. All this is explained in $GOBO/bin/Readme.md. If you are using a C compiler other than Microsoft Visual C cl on Windows or GNU gcc on other operating systems such as Linux, you should provide a configuration file for your C compiler as explained in the section "Back-end C compiler".

Then, depending on your platform and your C compiler, you should run either one of these commands:

%GOB%\bin\install.bat <c_compiler>
$GOBO/bin/install.sh <c_compiler>

If this completes successfully (no "BUILD FAILED!" message), you can then run the following test:

cd $GOBO
geant test_ge

Please don't forget to send feedbacks to the Gobo development team about your experiments, and whether we should add new entries to the list of platforms and C compilers above or add new config files to $GOBO/tool/gec/config/c/.