> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Jeremy Lee wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone out there managed to get any of the various
> > compilers/assemblers working on 'hosted website' servers such as
> > Dreamhost? Since you can't mess with system directories, everything has to
> > work out of the user's own home directory.
> >
> > I tried this a little while ago with the GNU C compiler and latest
> > Microchip libraries, but GCC complains (to the point of not compiling) if
> > you try to use '~/' as part of the install path, and giving a literal path
> > to your home directory also doesn't work, I think due to the
> > virtualization of where your home directory actually is. (At least on
> > Dreamhost)
> >
> > My goal is to create an online PIC compiler so that when I release code,
> > everyone else can use the same tools I used to modify and recompile.
> > (There are critical/timed sections of code which need to be reliably
> > compiled to the same machine code every time, or things go wrong) Plus it
> > reduces the barrier to entry for newbies, as setting up compiler
> > environments can be tricky.
> >
> > Anyone?

We briefly toyed with the idea of having on line compilers at Byte Craft
a couple years ago either as a demo or online service. We did do
the work necessary to set it up. Even with a dedicated computer
to host the compilers this eventually proved to be the bottleneck a
single computer servicing all the compiles.

The rest was fairly straight forward, a small html page the submitted
the jobs to the hosted compiler and returned the results.

Regards


Walter ..
--
Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited






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