[M3devel] Re: porting m3 on intel mac

Antony Hosking hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Sat Jan 20 23:58:20 CET 2007


What version of OSX are you using?

On 20/01/2007, at 5:49 PM, Darko wrote:

> No worries. I'm not familiar at all with those scripts. The problem  
> you are having may be to do with not having the latest source, but  
> it most probably has to do with the version of gcc that is active  
> on your machine. C files are not compiled by cm3 but rather call  
> gcc directly. I can't remember which version of gcc is the correct  
> one, but mine currently is i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1; also I  
> can't remember the command line for changing gcc versions. Tony may  
> be able to help re the correct version if 4.0.1 doesn't work. You  
> may need to install the latest XCode from http:// 
> developer.apple.com if you don't have 4.01.
>
> I've cc'd the list because they're actually very helpful and my  
> knowledge is limited...
>
> - Darko
>
>
> On 21/01/2007, at 6:58 AM, Renzo Orsini wrote:
>
>> First of all, thank you very much for your immediate help!
>>
>> I downloaded the files and replaced the corresponding /usr/local/ 
>> cm3/bin files,
>> modified cm3.cfg by replacing INSTALL_ROOT = "/usr/local/cm3- 
>> i386/" with INSTALL_ROOT = "/usr/local/cm3/"
>> then in the full source (last version, 5.4.0) I did: scripts/do- 
>> cm3-core.sh buildship
>> this is the result:
>>
>>  root#./do-cm3-core.sh buildship
>> CM3C =
>> /Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0/scripts/pkgmap.sh -c "cm3 - 
>> build  -DROOT='/Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0'  && cm3 -ship - 
>> DROOT='/Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0' " m3gc-simple m3core  
>> libm3 patternmatching m3middle m3linker m3front m3quake m3cc cm3  
>> m3scanner m3tools m3cgcat m3cggen m3bundle bitvector digraph  
>> parseparams realgeometry set slisp sortedtableextras table-list  
>> tempfiles
>> === package /Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0/m3-libs/m3gc- 
>> simple ===
>> +++ cm3 -build  -DROOT='/Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0'  &&  
>> cm3 -ship -DROOT='/Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0'  +++
>> --- building in I386_DARWIN ---
>>
>> new source -> compiling RTVM.c
>> new source -> compiling sysdeps.c
>> new source -> compiling accept.c
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/accept.c: In function 'm3_accept':
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/accept.c:13: warning: pointer targets  
>> in passing argument 3 of 'accept' differ in signedness
>> new source -> compiling bind.c
>> new source -> compiling close.c
>> new source -> compiling connect.c
>> new source -> compiling dup.c
>> new source -> compiling dup2.c
>> new source -> compiling gethostbyaddr.c
>> new source -> compiling gethostbyname.c
>> new source -> compiling getpeername.c
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/getpeername.c: In function  
>> 'm3_getpeername':
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/getpeername.c:13: warning: pointer  
>> targets in passing argument 3 of 'getpeername' differ in signedness
>> new source -> compiling getsockname.c
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/getsockname.c: In function  
>> 'm3_getsockname':
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/getsockname.c:13: warning: pointer  
>> targets in passing argument 3 of 'getsockname' differ in signedness
>> new source -> compiling listen.c
>> new source -> compiling read.c
>> new source -> compiling recv.c
>> new source -> compiling recvfrom.c
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/recvfrom.c: In function 'm3_recvfrom':
>> ../src/runtime/I386_DARWIN/recvfrom.c:15: warning: pointer targets  
>> in passing argument 6 of 'recvfrom' differ in signedness
>> new source -> compiling select.c
>> new source -> compiling send.c
>> new source -> compiling sendto.c
>> new source -> compiling shutdown.c
>> new source -> compiling socket.c
>> new source -> compiling write.c
>> -> archiving libm3gcdefs.a
>> ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format with  
>> the -multi_module option
>> sysdeps.o definition of common _RTCSRC_FinishVM (size 16)
>> sysdeps.o definition of common _RTHeapRep_Fault (size 16)
>> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>> --- shipping from I386_DARWIN ---
>>
>> . => /usr/local/cm3/pkg/m3gc-simple/I386_DARWIN
>>   .M3EXPORTS        libm3gcdefs.5.2.dylib"/Users/orsini/cm3/cm3- 
>> src-all-5.4.0/m3-libs/m3gc-simple/I386_DARWIN/.M3SHIP", line 3:  
>> quake runtime error: unable to copy "libm3gcdefs.5.2.dylib" to "/ 
>> usr/local/cm3/pkg/m3gc-simple/I386_DARWIN/libm3gcdefs.5.2.dylib":  
>> errno=2
>>
>> --procedure--  -line-  -file---
>> install_file       --  <builtin>
>>                     3  /Users/orsini/cm3/cm3-src-all-5.4.0/m3-libs/ 
>> m3gc-simple/I386_DARWIN/.M3SHIP
>>
>> Fatal Error: package build failed
>> *** execution of  failed ***
>>
>> ======
>>
>>
>> I noticed that not all the .c files in .../m3-libs/m3gc-simple/src/ 
>> runtime/I386_DARWIN/ where compiled, but I do not know if this is  
>> a normal behaviour.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time and patience!
>>
>> Cordially
>>
>> Renzo Orsini
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 19:02, Darko wrote:
>>
>>> 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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