Obtaining OSLib via SVN

Summary

The sources for OSLib and OSLibSupport, the build tools and even the contents of this website are freely available via SVN from SourceForge.

You may browse the repository using ViewVC.

In order to check out the repository to a local directory on your RISC OS machine, you'll need an SVN client running. Alex Waugh's port is the one you need. In order to correctly have RISC OS filetype support, you need to have set *set svn$filetypeext "".

The alternative is to check out the project onto a non-RISC OS platform which is supported by the GCCSDK project using an SVN client suited for that host.

Whichever platform you choose to use, the anonymous checkout procedure is similar : check out the repository, using the command svn co https://ro-oslib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ro-oslib/trunk oslib. This will get you the head revision, which is what most SVN users will want. However, be warned that this is in development, and may contain some unwanted surprises.

To obtain the sources for the current stable release version, you need to specify the version tag; i.e. svn co https://ro-oslib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ro-oslib/tags/<tag> oslib, where <tag> is the specic OSlib version wanted, like e.g. oslib-690.

There is quite a lot of code, so it may take a little while on a slow link, but I'm sure you'll find it whorthwhile! A !Readme file in the application directory !OSLib explains how to build OSLib under RISC OS or other GCCSDK supported host using the cross-compiler. You will need a C compiler, a Linker, a Make utility, and an ARM assembler in addition to the tools provided.