[M3devel] m2tom3

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
I think this is the way to get out of this "moral-technical" issue with the Unix interfaces, so get back to the old style (of course not brutal cross product), though we could that for the sake of further compatibility (it should be transparent ideally, like an Universal VM), but compiled natively (DEC SRC had the Ultrix VAX API as well, so for vax, openVMS you could do that surely).
And at the end just EXPORT Unix.System() or UnixV, UnixVI, etc and that's all.
OK, let me know, 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 20:22
> 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.
> > >
> >
>