Do we need a Porting Section?

In light of the advancement of Spots Guide to the universe of Coding and Porting, I was thinking, perhaps we need a seperate forum for this very thing?

If you pick a project you start a thread and update it with progress and information and how you overcome this and that? Of course you can ask for assitance there too.

Perhaps there is other places more suited for this but I just got a brain storm... I can't go first with starting a thread because I am not ready LOL but will do something down the road...

Once I settle down from buying different SAMS I will focus on something!

What do you think? Spot?

Existing Coders can help and could possibly learn something?

I know we have an OS4 development section but this isn't for Creating new Software from Scratch...

Hmmm, I could possibly be interested in completing the porting of TBAMud at some stage for example...

edit: after a careful revisit to the forum section I see there is something pointed to 'Open Amiga' ... I dunno, I kind of still like this idea of mine

Moved to appropriate forum

@Slayer

i would appreciate such a forum, yes.
very much actually.
i have a bunch of threads i could start in there.

@spotUP

Did you get svgalib working?
I have not seen you upload anything yet.

@thread

Definitely ... we need some place for Orgin to post

@Raziel

? I don't port.

@orgin

I thought of a forum along the lines of porting/coding (for beginners)... i?d be definitely in there aswell

@LiveForIt

no... i have problems with it, as it's mixed binaries atm in the latest version. clib2/newlib.

if you tell me how you build it i could build versions for both clib2 and newlib, and package it like proper libraries as it should be. then manual builds wouldn't be needed. you could use makefiles and configure scripts as is.

@spotUP

Remove "#define fd_set int"

from include/vga.h and src/vga.h

Compile svgalib..

cd Work:svga/svgalib-1.4.3/
cd obj
delete #?.o
cd /src
make
cd /gl
make
cd /threeDKit
delete #?.o
make
cd /demos/prog
delete #?.exe
cd /

you only need obj/svgalib.o to compile flury

gcc flurry.c -Wall -o flurry ../svgalib-1.4.3/obj/svgalib.o ../svgalib-1.4.3/obj/svgagl.o -I ../svgalib-1.4.3/src -I ../svgalib-1.4.3/gl -I ../svgalib-1.4.3/include -lauto -lm -D__USE_INLINE__

Obs you need 320x200 as mode in devs:Monitors/Radeon
VSYNCMIN=60
MODE=320x200@60

@All

there has to be more interest than this! c'mon everyone chime in please!

once you've got your nice machines sitting there etc wouldn't you love to take on that mysterious side of cpu operations?

its never been any easier and there is great support!

lets get started contributing and having fun!!!

AMEN!

Once my Flex arrives and I've got it all SetUp... no more idle surfing, time to apply oneself!

and spotUP will love to MOD such a section! A man whos given us so much already will be right here! now that's Awesome!

@Slayer

I think could be usefull for beginners like me, also if somebody starts a port could informs all amigans out there to avoid double port..

@spotUP

Nice and Appreciated update!

@Slayer

=) i hope this version should make things even simpler for beginners and slackers (like me) with the aliases and scripts.
it makes it really comfy to compile stuff with minimum effort.