PC/M tool chain v1.3

V1.3

The PC/M tool chain 1.3 source archive release includes numerous improvements that were made since the initial 1.0 source archive release.

In addition to the list of changes below, many bug fixing and cleaning was performed across the tree.

This release does maintain backward compatibility in all respects. In some cases, you may see output on stdout instead of stderr; or missing output completely, but without loosing compatibility.

The following areas of PC/M tool chain functionality changed in this release:

Character Generator Layer:

• Refectoring CLI code, avoid dublicate code.
• Centralize the CLI in libmkcg.
• Split libmkcg into multiple objects.

Integration Test Layer:

• Move smoke test closer to source code.

Documentation:

• Use GNU help2man to generate manpages automatically from binaries.

Build and Release:

• Enable many binary hardening features.
• Increased configuration and compilation warning coverage.
• Use Autoconf 2.69 for configuration.
• Use Automake 1.14 for compilation.
• Use libtool 2.2 to produce helper library as a step toward to "libmkcg".

For more details about what has changed since 1.0, see the ChangeLog associated with this release.

PC/M tool chain v1.2

V1.2

The PC/M tool chain 1.2 source archive release includes numerous improvements that were made since the initial 1.0 source archive release.

In addition to the list of changes below, many bug fixing and cleaning was performed across the tree.

This release does maintain backward compatibility in all respects. In some cases, you may see output on stdout instead of stderr; or missing output completely, but without loosing compatibility.

The following areas of PC/M tool chain functionality changed in this release:

Character Generator Layer:

• Refectoring CLI code, avoid dublicate code.
• Centralize the CLI in libmkcg.
• Split libmkcg into multiple objects.

Integration Test Layer:

• Move smoke test closer to source code.

Documentation:

• Use GNU help2man to generate manpages automatically from binaries.

Build and Release:

• Enable many binary hardening features.
• Increased configuration and compilation warning coverage.
• Use Autoconf 2.64 for configuration.
• Use Automake 1.11 for compilation.
• Use libtool 2.2 to produce helper library as a step toward to "libmkcg".

For more details about what has changed since 1.0, see the ChangeLog associated with this release.

PC/M tool chain v1.1

V1.1

The PC/M tool chain 1.1 source archive release includes numerous improvements that were made since the initial 1.0 source archive release.

In addition to the list of changes below, many bug fixing and cleaning was performed across the tree.

This release does maintain backward compatibility in all respects. In some cases, you may see output on stdout instead of stderr; or missing output completely, but without loosing compatibility.

The following areas of PC/M tool chain functionality changed in this release:

Build and Release:

• Enable many binary hardening features.
• Increased configuration and compilation warning coverage.
• Use Autoconf 2.64 for configuration.
• Use Automake 1.14 for compilation.
• Use libtool 2.2 to produce helper library as a step toward to "libmkcg".

For more details about what has changed since 1.0, see the ChangeLog associated with this release.

PC/M tool chain v1.0

V1.0

This is a post tagged release of the original source package from 2005/04/19

2005-04-19

• pcmtools.h, mkzg.c: new MKZG option OPT_MKZG_INVERSE
• mkzg.6416.c: new option; negated output

2005-04-18

• pcmtools.h, mkzg.c: new MKZG option OPT_MKZG_LEFTBOUND
• mkzg.c: fix problem with one a/o none color XPM
• mkzg.6416.c: new file; aded supoort for original PC/M 64x16
• mkzg.vid2k.c: change help phrase

2005-04-17

• change to automake 1.7 / autoconf 2.59

2003-04-06

• mkzg.vid2k.c mkzg.c: code spliting

2003-03-29

• mkzg.vid2k.c: new option --overview (-o)

2003-03-28

• mkzg.vid2k.c: new option --verbose (-v)
• data/ZG_VID2K/Makefile: targets for building hex and bin files of all currently known ascii character tables

2003-03-27

• all: first autoconfiguration

2003-03-25

• all: initial version