[M3devel] m2tom3

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
just forget that, it's done, the only thing we need is the SUN Modula-2 compilers, and that's all folks :)
http://homepage.mac.com/dr2chase/resume.html

How enough hard this men worked but how much good fellows they were (I can't see anything like this today in industry).

Thanks in advance

--- El mar, 15/11/11, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> escribió:

> De: Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] m2tom3
> Para: "Mark Wickens" <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>, "Mika Nystrom" <mika at async.caltech.edu>
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: martes, 15 de noviembre, 2011 19:22
> Hi all:
> yeah my fault, but as I recall although I could compile
> this years ago, the main issue is that it didn't even work
> to feed the file to compile or so failed in therefore the
> first character was read. So it never worked for real for
> me.
> My best bet would export a SUN Unix syscall interface
> (since it tailored the SUN Modula-2 library) spec like
> Sphinx in SPIN OS so an export of it for every Modula-3
> program understands itself right (yeah it coudl take the
> years spent from when I compiled until today, or so).
> If I were to start a new project perhaps would start making
> Unix legacy and updated replacements.
> The other approach perhaps the most indicated is just to
> wrap C on SPIN code to make it user level server. This could
> make the thing (inf act there is FreeBSD server already
> there just miss several calls, but nonetheless is something
> there).
> BTW, I don' know which platform this compiler used to work,
> so the main point would be emulate the real sys calls, since
> they just emulated in Sun OS and Solaris, nothing more. This
> has a potential utility for another project that depends on
> this m2tom3 tool.
> Thanks in advance
> 
> --- El mar, 15/11/11, Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu>
> escribió:
> 
> > De: Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu>
> > Asunto: Re: [M3devel] m2tom3
> > Para: "Mark Wickens" <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Fecha: martes, 15 de noviembre, 2011 18:24
> > What I would do is:
> > 
> > 1. delete IMPORT TextF
> > 2. see what breaks, figure out the intent of the
> code,
> > recode it using Text
> > 3. check in the result to the CM3 repository so no one
> has
> > to do it again!
> > 
> >    Mika
> > 
> > Mark Wickens writes:
> > >Guys,
> > >
> > >I found the m2tom3 translation utility here: 
> > >http://freepages.modula2.org/downloads/m2tom3-2.03.tar.gz
> > >I attempted to compile it using cm3, but I get an
> > unknown interface:
> > >
> > >msw at x60:~/m2tom3/m2tom3/src$ cm3
> > >--- building in ../LINUXLIBC6 ---
> > >
> > >unsupported m3_option value: "-O"
> > >new source -> compiling Standard.m3
> > >"../src/Analyzer/Standard.m3", line 25: unable to
> find
> > interface (TextF)
> > >1 error encountered
> > >compilation failed => not building program
> "m2tom3"
> > >Fatal Error: package build failed
> > >
> > >
> > >Has anyone heard of interface TextF?
> Alternatively, is
> > there a port of 
> > >this utility to cm3?
> > >
> > >I recently uncovered a machine-readable copy of
> my
> > degree final year 
> > >project, a Meta Assembler, written in Modula-2,
> and
> > wondered if I could 
> > >get it to compile using the utility to work with
> > Modula-3.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Makr.
> >
>