Acorn C/C++ (Release 5)

A mid 90's development environment

This is a copy of Acorn's development tool set from 1994/1995. it is known by a number of names.

• Acorn C/C++
• Acorn C Release 5
• The Desktop Development Environment (DDE)

It supports development for RISC OS in the following languages.

• ARM Assembler
• C
• C++ (through the terrible Cfront)

It also contains a debugger, makefile system, and support tools for many aspects of development.

It supports generating code for 26-bit addressing mode versions of RISC OS for the Archimedes/A7000/Risc PC machines, running RISC OS 3.1x to RISC OS 6 (excluding RISC OS 5, and RISC OS 4.42 on the A9home).

It is possible to run the compiler on similar 26-bit addressing version of RISC OS from 3.1x onwards.

It neither runs, nor generates code suitable for any 32-bit addressing mode version of RISC OS (RISC OS 5, RISC OS 4.42), or those machines which use that, Iyonix, A9home, Beagleboard, Pandaboard or Raspberry Pi. A version that supports this (suitable for host machines running RISC OS 3.5 or newer) is available for purchase here.

Downloads

• Disc images, Zip containing 6 discs in ADF foramt
  • Acorn-C-C++-discs.zip (1.7 MB)
• Documentation, PDF format
  • Acorn Assembler 241 pages (20.2 MB)
  • Acorn C/C++ 385 pages (32.0 MB)
  • Desktop Tools 305 pages (28.7 MB)
  • User Interface Toolbox 529 pages (62.0 MB)

Upgrade from version 5.05 to 5.06

Released to all users via Acorn's FTP site.

• Cupdate1.arc.

Upgrade from version 5.06 to 5.09

Released to Acorn's Registered Developers three weeks before the Acorn closed the workstation division.

• c++mod.arc.

The release details are included here.