Re: [hatari-devel] program autostart, visual studio Hatari compilation

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 24.10.2021 20.49, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> On 24.10.2021 19.50, Charles Curley wrote:
> > Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hatari has a shell script that inserts Atari
> > > program arguments to its basepage using debugger
> > > and conditional breakpoints:
> > > https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/tree/tools/hatari-prg-args.sh 
> >
> > Nice! I was not aware of that.
> >
> > For my use, it does too much. It appears to parse the argument to a
> > program to make sure that the argument is a proper file specification.
>
> It should do that only for arguments that have
> same (unix) path prefix as the Atari program you
> are running.  Reason for this is that those paths
> need to be converted, like this:
>      /path/to/some.prg /path/to/file.ext
> =>    C:\SOME.PRG C:\FILE.TXT
>
> But I guess that script may do the file existence
> checks also if one does not give any path for the
> Atari program.  I'll fix that if it's the case...

This:
-----------------
$ hatari-prg-args -- everest.prg test1 test2 test3
-----------------

open Everest text editor with windows for 3 new
text files that do not exist yet.

I.e. I cannot reproduce your problem.


> > That prevents me from using it to pass arbitrary arguments to a program.
> >
> > I use fastforth on the Atari, and would like to pass snippits of Forth
> > code to fastforth so that it can execute them on loading. For example:
> >
> > C:\FF\FAST4TH.TTP 3 list

Should work fine as:
  hatari-prg-args -- /path/to/fast4th.ttp 3 list


NOTE1: Similarly to normal Hatari autostart
feature, GEMDOS HD C: root will be the directory
where the started program is.

NOTE2: one can use "--auto" option for auto-start
and separate options for disk mounts, if program
needs to be started from somewhere else than
GEMDOS HD C: root.  Due to its awkwardness, it's
mainly intended to be used for autostarting things
from disk images, but one can use it also with
GEMDOS HD. "hatari-prg-args" does not support that
though.


	- Eero

> > Or someone might want to run a compile:
> >
> > E:\COMPILER\MAKE -q -z SNARK.OBJ
> >
> > So how do I strip out that checking?
>
> If you are running Hatari from the same
> directory where your Atari program is,
> like this:
>      program.prg
>
> The workaround is using this instead:
>      ./program.prg