[M3devel] CM3 on Alpha tru64 4.0G

[Tony Hosking]

This should be entirely doable, so long as reasonable pthread APIs exist on 4.x Tru64.  What was the decthreads exception?

On 13 Jul 2010, at 15:19, Mark Wickens wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I've been trying unsuccessfully to build various version of Modula-3
> (DEC-SRC, PM3, CM3) on a DEC Alpha 300 running tru64 4.0G and was
> wondering whether anyone could give some guidance of what is possible,
> indeed sensible.
> 
> I've received a couple of helpful emails for Daniel, but what I'd really
> like clarified are the following:
> 
> 1. Is this sensible, or is tru64 5+ the only realistic tru64 platform to
> attempt?
> 
> 2. The executables for tru64 uploaded to the opencm3 website in
> cm3-min-ALPHA_OSF-d5.8.2-20100612.tar.gz don't work for me - I get a
> decthreads exception. Does anyone know what version of tru64 these were
> built with?
> 
> 3. Is it possible to build CM3 from scratch, or do I need some version
> of the M3 build tools?
> 
> Many thanks for the help. I used DEC-SRC Modula-3 around 1995 and am
> trying to get it compiled up for a recent project, but on an original
> platform. Some may call me crazy, and they'd be totally justified. I'm
> not sure whether back-in-the-day I had it running on tru64 (well back
> then it would have been Digital Unix 3.2C) or whether it was on a linux
> box.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Mark.