MultiRename

Another tool for Amiga computers. This time it's a MultiRename tool in the vein of that one, Windows tool TotalCommander has built in. I use this a lot and wanted something like this on my favorite retro Computer.

To run it, AmigaOS 3.2.3 (!) is needed: MultiRename uses BOOPSI objects (Reaction) and needs a recently updated function of string.gadget which was released in the 3.2.3 update in April 2025.

Build and debug

Amiga

On the Amiga you need OS3.2.2 with a fully installed SAS-C 6.5 and Codecraft development environment.

Open Codecraft, open the project file MultiRename.projecttree, use the Build menu to build, then hit F5 to run the app in the debugger.

Linux

Dependencies

The project was built with Debian on Windows with the Linux subsystem (WSL). The following packages must be installed in Debian:

• build-essentials
• cmake
• git
• (Bebbos gcc 6.5 toolchain @ Github, retired)
• Bebbos gcc 6.5 toolchain @ Codeberg which is expected to be installed in /opt

NOTE: for the Codeberg variant, you'll have to replace

git clone https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc

with

git clone https://franke.ms/git/bebbo/amiga-gcc.git

(as shown in an Amiga forum.)

For more about Bebbos gcc, read this blog.

Build

To build this project a Makefile must be created with cmake:

• Manually create a directory build-gcc next to the src directory

• Enter this directory and type.

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

• For preparing a debug Makefile with debug information, type:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..

Then cmake is configured. Build can be started by simply typing

make

from inside the build directory.

After the build was successful the binary Pooyan_gcc is copied into the project root directory.

VSCode integration

The VSCode default build task (see tasks.json) has been updated to use the cmake generated Makefile inside the build directory.

So, after cmake is prepared for debug or release (see above), building can be started with Ctrl + Shift + b from within VSCode.

Debug the RenameParser test with Linux

To debug the RenameParser test in the scr/_tests directory with Linux, the cmake run, see above, must've been done with the -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug option. Only then the breakpoints you set in VSCode will be hit.

With this done properly the test_action_parser.c entry point can be build and run in debug mode by simply hitting F5 in VScode.