NAME

       z88dk - The z88 Development Kit.

DESCRIPTION

       The z88 Development Kit (hereafter known as z88dk) is an advanced set of tools allowing the production of
       complex programs for z80 based computers in either C or assembly language.   The  name  z88dk  originates
       from the time when the project was founded and targetted only the Cambridge z88 portable.

       The  compiler  featured in z88dk is much enhanced Small C compiler, the compiler accepts many features of
       ANSI C and is only deficient in a  few  areas  where  implementation  on  a  z80  processor  might  prove
       inefficient.  The  compiler  performs simple optimizations, but the bulk of the optimization is done by a
       set of peep-hole rules, which will typically reduce the size of a large project by up to a third.

              The libraries supplied with z88dk are designed to be as generic as possible, indeed it is possible
              to  port  to  a  new machine simply by supplying two library routines and some startup code. It is
              hoped that one day z88dk will support as many z80 based machines as there is information available
              and sufficient interest in.

              z88dk contains usable tools:

              •  zcc  -  the  frontend of z88dk is called zcc, it is this that you should call if you want to do
                 any compilations.

              •  z80asm - Z80 assembler compiler

              •  copt - Z80 asm optimizer code

              •  appmake - produce files which are suitable for use in emulators or on the real hardware

              •  sccz80 - Small-C/Plus compiler

SEE ALSO

       z88dk(1), z88dk-zcc(1), z88dk-z80asm(1), z88dk-appmake(1), z88dk-copt(1).

AUTHOR

       z88dk was written by Dominic Morris <dom@z88dk.org>,  and  others.   This  manual  page  was  written  by
       Krystian Wlosek <tygrys@waw.pdi.net> using exists documentation, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

                                                01 December 2009                                        z88dk(1)