LWTOOLS

This page contains an archive of old release notices for LWTOOLS. These versions are provided here for archaeological purposes only. See the main LWTOOLS page for the most recent release.

• LWTOOLS 3.0.1. Swiftly on the heels of 3.0, here is a bugfix release. This release fixes code generation errors with PCR addressing as well as operator precedence issues with expression evaluation. Most importantly, it fixes the memory usage bug that 3.0 had. Download the source code or the win32 binaries.
• LWTOOLS 3.0. While there are still likely bugs in this release, I have decided to make an official 3.0 release in the hope that it will prove stable or at least shake out the remaining problems. The only known significant issue is that it uses an insane amount of memory on very large source files but most projects should not run into that. If they do, they can be split into multiple files and linked with lwlink. Download the source code. I think I found the issue with Windows binaries so you can download the Win32 binaries here.
• LWTOOLS 3.0 Beta 2. This is the second preliminary release of LWTOOLS 3.0. It features a number of bug fixes including a code generation error. This is beta software so it is likely to have even more bugs than the usual releases. You have been warned. Download the source code. Sorry, no Windows binaries this time until I figure out why the binaries are not functional.
• LWTOOLS 3.0 Beta 1. This is the first preliminary release of LWTOOLS 3.0 featuring a completely rewritten LWASM. The biggest feature improvement of the rewrite is that forward references are now optimized rather than being forced to 16 bits. This is beta software so it is likely to have even more bugs than the usual releases. You have been warned. Download the source code. Sorry, no Windows binaries this time since the binaries were unusable.
• LWTOOLS 2.6.1. This release fixes a crash bug related to structure handling. If you do not use structures, you do not need to upgrade. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.6. This release adds several new features including an include path fo the INCLUDE directive, structure support, and a few other things. It also fixes a number of bugs, including a couple of important ones in LWLINK. It is recommended that all users upgrade to this release. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.5. This release fixes a few niggly bugs. It also adds a few features. Of note are the compatibility mneumonics for TFM (COPY, COPY-, IMP, EXP, TFRP, TFRM, TFRS, TFRR) and a switch to select 6809 mode or 6309 mode. Also, LWASM has gained the ability to create OS9 modules. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.4.1. Also know as the "Egg on Face Redux" release. This fixes a showstopper which prevented assembly of sourcecode that used inherent addressing modes and also included comments on the same line. You might think testing would have revealed such a bug but, alas, errors were made during testing. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.4. ***Don't use this release - see 2.4.1 above*** This version fixes a nasty problem with external references and 8 bit addressing modes which caused linking to generate garbage. It also fixes a problem where some obviously incorrect operands were silently accepted but unexpected code was generated. This version allows 8 bit immediate operands to be external references as well. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.3.1. Also know as the "Egg on Face" release. This fixes a particuarly ugly bug with LWLINK that caused the contents of linked library files to not be included if there were no external references. While this is not a problem for a regular library, it is if you are relying on the somewhat undocumented behaviour of all contents being included if the -l switch is not used to include the library. This bug was believed to have been fixed in the 2.3 release below but, alas, it was still present. Download the source code or the Windows binaries.
• LWTOOLS 2.3. ***Don't use this release - see 2.3.1 above*** This release features a number of updates and bugfixes. There is some infrastructure for using LWTOOLS as the binutils for gcc6809. Additionally, this release features additional portability as well as the ability to build it with MinGW. That means there are Windows binaries available this time, too! (Note that testing is done on Linux so there may be problems with the Windows build. Please report bugs.)
• LWTOOLS 2.2. This release adds LWAR (libraries!). It also adds some features to LWASM to allow it to assemble the output of gcc6809 more easily.
• LWTOOLS 2.1. This release marks the first release after joining LWLINK and LWASM into a single package.

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