[M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3

[Tony Hosking]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Jay wrote:

> Gasp..I just realized, there is also another good backend option.  
> parse.c's approach could probably be adapted to Open Watcom AND  
> they might even take the changes (not that I have asked, I just  
> thought of this). And that would net you progress toward a) 32 bit  
> MS-DOS target b) OS/2 target, c) Netware target d) gcc-free Linux  
> target, since the support all of them.

I would plump for llvm.  Apple is using it heavily these days and may  
be pushing it into their Mac compiler toolchain.

>
> Other target possibilities include Digital Mars compiler/linker,  
> CodeWarrior (I know, dead and all), etc. Open Watcom is probably  
> the most interesting since it is open source...
>
>  - Jay
>
>
>
> > From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> > Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:48:06 -0500
> > To: jkrell at elego.de
> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
> >
> > So, I am very confused now. Does NT386GNU no longer mean use of the
> > full set of GNU tools m3cc/ld/as, as would be available under
> > Cygwin? I thought the point of this was to be able to run in as much
> > of a GNU environment as possible. GNU to me means the whole
> > toolsuite not just m3cc. To me, a GNU-based environment on Windows
> > holds great attraction, since it consists of tools that I generally
> > always install on Windows, that I know, and are similar to the other
> > platforms I use.
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Jay Krell wrote:
> >
> > > CVSROOT: /usr/cvs
> > > Changes by: jkrell at birch. 08/01/19 04:11:34
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/runtime/: m3makefile
> > > cm3/m3-sys/cminstall/src/config/: NT386GNU
> > > cm3/m3-sys/m3front/src/builtinInfo/: InfoModule.m3
> > > cm3/m3-sys/m3middle/src/: Target.m3
> > >
> > > Log message:
> > > m3-sys/m3middle/src/Target.m3
> > > m3-libs/m3core/src/runtime/m3makefile
> > > m3-sys\m3front\src\builtinInfo\InfoModule.m3
> > >
> > > switch NT386GNU to be Win32 instead of POSIX
> > > switch NT386GNU to _setjmp instead of setjmp
> > > jmp_buf size still big like Cygwin
> > > rewrite NT386GNU config file -- almost identical to NT386
> > > mingwin required for building Modula-3 programs
> > > mingwin AND msys required for building m3cc
> > >
> > > To boot:
> > >
> > > install Python (www.activestate.com)
> > >
> > > have a working NT386 system
> > > get current source
> > > Mine is at c:\dev2\cm3.2 (cm3 is has other paused work, dev was
> > > taken by Unix)
> > >
> > > get and install binary distribution (5.1.3 works, anything newer
> > > should work)
> > > I install to c:\cm3
> > > copy %CVSROOT%\m3-sys\cminstall\src\config\cm3.cfg to \cm3\bin
> > > \cm3.cfg
> > >
> > > Have a Visual C++ toolset (cl and link)
> > > and run the vcvars link on the start menu (this can/will be made
> > > easier)
> > > Almost any version should work.
> > > if you are using Visual C++ 8.0 (RTM?), rename away its mt.exe
> > > and get a newer from such as from the Platform SDK. Otherwise it
> > > crashes.
> > > This is not specific to NT386GNU, just that I recently removed the
> > > Platform SDK
> > > from my %PATH%.
> > >
> > > cd %CVSROOT%\scripts\python
> > > .\upgrade
> > >
> > > install msys and mingwin from http://www.mingw.org (links to
> > > SourceForge)
> > > for mingwin, you only need the "base"
> > > msys tells you to avoid mingwin make, in favor of msys make, and I
> > > did that
> > >
> > > I install to the defaults
> > > c:\msys\1.0
> > > c:\mingw
> > >
> > > if you don't install to the defaults, add
> > > <msys>\bin and <mingwin\bin to $PATH (in which order? I add
> > > to the start, but which order between the two?)
> > >
> > > if you do install to the defaults, scripts\python will fix path
> > > for you,
> > > if there is no gcc/as/sh on our $PATH
> > >
> > > cd %CVSROOT%\scripts\python
> > > upgrade && bootntgnu
> > >
> > > NOTE THE RESULTING BINARIES DO NOT YET WORK, but this is still
> > > progress.
> > >
> > > These instructions inevitably to be further tested and refined and
> > > placed elsewhere!
> >
>
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