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Oddly-specific title but my ADHD is kicking in hard before cohost's shutdown so...

Slackware 13.37 (2011)

Compiling with SlackBuilds

It worked, didn't it? Feel free to applaud.

• Anki: Spaced repetition software

  • PASS: 2.0.33 from 14.1's SlackBuilds

• Blender (binary): 3D modeling software

  • PASS: 2.63a from 13.37 and 14.0's SlackBuilds
  • FAIL: 2.79b from 14.1's SlackBuilds: "Illegal instruction" error

• FCEUX: NES emulator

  • PASS:
  • FAIL: 2.2.2 from 14.1's SlackBuilds: Only compiles "fceux-net-server"
  • FAIL: 2.2.3 from 14.2's SlackBuids: Only compiles "fceux-net-server"

• MAME/MESS: MESS is a multi-system emulator that's currently merged into MAME

  • FAIL: sdlmess 0.134 from 13.37's SlackBuilds
  • FAIL: MAME 0.167

• SDCC: Small Device C Compiler

  • PASS: 3.0.0 from 14.0's SlackBuilds
  • FAIL: 3.5.0 from 14.1's SlackBuilds ("cannot find library libgc"; not sure why, as compiling 3.6.0 from source worked just fine)

• Stella: Atari 2600 emulator

  • PASS: 3.0 from 13.37 and 14.0's SlackBuilds *
  • PASS: 4.6.1 from 14.1's SlackBuilds (requires SDL2)
    • However, slow (about 80% speed?) w/ software rendering. Unplayable w/ OpenGL rendering
    • Can run Princess Rescue (32K) and Zippy the Porcupine (64K)

• VICE: Versatile Commodore Emulator

  • PASS: 2.3.22 from 14.1's SlackBuilds

Compiling from source with GCC 4.5.2 (comes with Slackware)

So, finally. The dragon's dead, the door goes up, and now you got one last obstacle: just don't fall. Oh, God, don't fall. Not after that.

• Atari800: Atari 8-bit/5200 emulator

  • PASS: Commit 7429326, took 0m43.342s
    • Slows down in fullscreen, runs even worse with hardware acceleration

• cc65: Assembler (ca65) and C compiler (cc65) for 6502-based systems (e.g. NES, Atari, Commodore)

  • PASS: Commit 16258d8, took 8m0.844s

• dasm: Assembler for several retro CPUs. Commonly used for Atari 2600, 7800, and Channel F development

  • PASS: Version 2.20.14.1. took 0m4.403s

• DOSBox: x86 MS-DOS emulator

  • PASS: Version 0.74-3, took 5m4.156s

• GCC 4.8.2: GNU compiler collection

  • PASS: Source code from Slackware 14.1's build script. Took 198m52.496s (over 3 hours) with --enabled-languages=c,c++

• Neofetch

  • PASS: Commit ccd5d9f

• SDCC: C compiler for many niche CPUs, incl. the Z80 (used for GBDK-2020)

  • Used ./configure --disable-pic14-port --disable-pic16-port
  • PASS: Version 3.6.0, took 40m52.955s
  • FAIL: Version 3.7.0 and later: Errors out in the source code (e.g. "SDCClospre.o"). Not even GCC 4.8.2 could help

• SDL2

  • PASS: Commit d6b7be8, took 8m1.121s

• Tiny C Compiler

  • PASS: Commit b8b6a5f, took 0m20.512s

• Vim:

  • PASS: commit 4298c5f, took 7m11.470s

Compiling from source with GCC 4.8.2

Alright, finally we get to see something different!

• CMake

  • PASS

• DOSBOX-X:

  • FAIL: 2024.07.01 gives a "no option -Wincompatible-pointer-types" error

• GBDK-2020: C compiler for Game Boy and other systems

  • FAIL: Both 4.0.6 and 4.3.0 complain of the "unrecognized command line option '-Wno-incompatible-pointer-types'".
  • Fortunately GBDK Classic (GBDK 2.96a from 2002) has a precompiled build that can run on the hardware

• ncdu 1.20

  • PASS: Took 0m9.078s
  • Untested with GCC 4.5.2

• Python 3.12.6

  • FAIL: Fails to compile with several errors, one of which being "error: unknown type name '_Thread_local'"

• Raylib 5.0

  • PASS: Took 1m29.676s
    • However compiled games fail to boot, with an error: "X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)".

• SDCC: Small Device C Compiler (earlier testing)

  • Gives a "liblto_plugin.so: File format not recognized" error and fails to compile

NetBSD 10.0

Binary packages available via pkgin

• cc65 (2.19)
• dasm (2.20.14.1)

Compiling from source with GCC 10.5.0

• cc65

  • Already available in NetBSD's repositories (2.19)