nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis) (11/01/90)
Hello Modula2 people,
I have a program that runs under DOS JPI compiler and I will like to
port it under Unix on a 386 PC machine. Is it a fact that there is
no Modula2 compiler for 386 PC under any Unix? :-(
I realy do not want to code in C.
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_____________________________ ___________________________________________pf@artcom0.north.de (Peter Funk) (11/02/90)
In <1515@ariadne.csi.forth.GR> nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis) writes: mc> Hello Modula2 people, mc> I have a program that runs under DOS JPI compiler and I will like to mc> port it under Unix on a 386 PC machine. Is it a fact that there is mc> no Modula2 compiler for 386 PC under any Unix? :-( mc> I realy do not want to code in C. Agreed. I know at least two products : 1. The well known Logitech Compiler has been ported to Xenix in its Version 2.0 of 1987. We buyed a preliminary Version called Modula-2/X 0.5 from Logitech in early 1988 and haved used it very heavily since then in everay day work on a SCO Xenix 386 and have discovered only very few bugs. But as far as I know Logitech has thrown Support of Xenix in favour of OS/2 :-(. We were not able to get any support or an update from them. The generated code is relatively slow : 8086-Code with the awful 64kB-limitation on data segments is your only choice. Nevertheless the code seems to be correct (A Statement, which does not apply to the Microsoft-C-Compiler on Xenix :-(). I had a hard time to get the wonderful Logitech-PMD running with 80386-core images: I wrote a small utility program, which converts the core-Header containing the local descriptor table into the format of a 80286 kernel-user structure in order to get the PMD running with it. Excuse: I've n't the address handy at the moment. 2. Oregon Software sells also a Modula-2 Compiler for Xenix 386, which is able to generate real 80386-code. We buyed this compiler a while ago but have not used in production here. Someone here has tried to install it a few months ago. But he ran into the problem, that the compiler reports 'version conflicts' between modules where there is no real version conflict. (Since we use an automatic Makefile-generator an error in compilation sequence was unlikely). I don't know, whether this is a serious problem of this compiler, since we had no time yet to track the problem down into bug-reportable-form. There is no PMD, also Oregon offers a run time debugger called 'odb' coming with the compiler. Since we absolutely need a way to analyse 'core'-dumps of programs crashed at one of our customers sites, this is one of the reasons not to convert from Logitech to Oregon at the Moment. I don't know whether our version 1.0C is the latest version of this compiler. You may want to contact them : Oregon Software, Inc. 6915 S.W. Macadam Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 97219 Phone: 001-503-245-2202 Fax: 001-503-245-8449 If there are other people out there using Modula-2 on 386 unices, I would like to here about your experiences. -- Peter Funk \\ ArtCom GmbH, Schwachhauser Heerstr. 78, D-2800 Bremen 1 Work at home: Oldenburger Str.86, D-2875 Ganderkesee 1 /+49 4222 6018 (8am-6pm) >> PLEASE Don't send BIG mails (oversea) ! I've to pay for it : $0.3/kB Don't use the bang path of this news article for mails (They will bounce). Only the address 'pf@artcom0.north.de' will work. Thank You ! <<
Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Ben Stuyts) (11/06/90)
In a message of <01 Nov 90 20:14:33>, Nicolas Chrissakis (1:105/42.0) writes:
NC> I have a program that runs under DOS JPI compiler and I will like to
NC> port it under Unix on a 386 PC machine. Is it a fact that there is
NC> no Modula2 compiler for 386 PC under any Unix? :-(
Try Rowley Associates in England. They have a whole slew of cross and
native M2 compilers, and quite good too. I think they have compilers for
68K, 88K, Mips, Transputers and 80386, running on all kinds of platforms.
Here's their address:
Rowley Associates
32 Rowley
Cam
Dursley Glos. GL11 5NT
UK
Phone: 0453-547916
Fax: 0453-544068
Best regards,
Ben
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