[M3devel] Re: porting m3 on intel mac

[Darko]

Have a look here: ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/hosking/m3/I386_DARWIN/

There you'll find the bits you need for Mac Intel. Replace your  
existing cm3, cmcg and cm3.cfg with the ones there, then you can  
compile the basic libraries you need like m3core and libm3, but make  
sure you have the latest sources.

I think they're the latest but Tony may have something more to say  
about that.

Darko.



On 21/01/2007, at 1:41 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 03:05:55PM +0100, Renzo Orsini wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I  installed cm3-min-POSIX-PPC_DARWIN-5.4.0.tgz on an intel mac, then
>> tried to a compile a Hello world program, but the compilation failed
>> with the following message:
>>
>> pborsini:~/ProveModula3 orsini$ cm3
>> --- building in PPC_DARWIN ---
>>
>> new source -> compiling Main.m3
>> "../Main.m3", line 4: warning: potentially unhandled exception:  
>> IO.Error
>> 1 warning encountered
>> Main.ms:12:no such instruction: `mflr r0'
>> Main.ms:13:no such instruction: `stmw r30,-8(r1)'
>> Main.ms:14:no such instruction: `stw r0,8(r1)'
>> Main.ms:15:no such instruction: `stwu r1,-96(r1)'
>> Main.ms:16:no such instruction: `mr r30,r1'
>> Main.ms:17:no such instruction: `bcl 20,31,"L00000000001$pb"'
>> ...
>> ....
>>
>> So I suppose there is PPC code to assemble and the Rosetta emulator
>> for PPC on intel macs cannot do anything for this!
>>
>> Since I would like to port the Fibonacci language for databases,
>> which is written in Modula-3, if I understand well the situation I
>> should port the Modula-3 compiler by cross compiling it on a PPC mac,
>> or something like that.
>>
>> I am asking you if you know about some effort of porting Modula-3 on
>> intel macs, or at least if you let me know if this operation is
>> possible (and also reasonably feasible in terms of time and
>> expertise, given my teaching duties and my difficulties with
>> assembler languages!), and, if so, if you can point me to the correct
>> documentation to start with. Of course I will be very glad to give
>> back to the community the result if I succeed!
>>
>> Thank you very much for your attention.
>>
>> Cordially
>>
>> Renzo Orsini
>> Associate Professor
>> Dipartimento di Informatica
>> Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia
>
> Well, I wouldn't have thought that you were even able to install
> the cm3-min-POSIX-PPC_DARWIN-5.4.0.tgz system on an Intel machine;
> it's surely not supposed to run on one. It shouldn't be too
> difficult to get a port of the latest CM3 for Darwin on Intel
> processors; I even think somebody was already working on it,
> but I don't really remember who, so I forward your mail to
> the m3devel list, in case others have already started such an
> effort.
>
> Olaf
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