mjordan@src.dec.com (Mick Jordan) (05/13/91)
Archive-name: languages/modula-3/m3tk/1991-05-11 Archive-directory: gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/Modula-3/m3tk/ [16.1.0.2] Original-posting-by: mjordan@src.dec.com (Mick Jordan) Original-subject: Modula-3 toolkit Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) The Modula-3 toolkit, a development of the otherwise defunct Olivetti Modula-3 implemention, is now available via ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com. The code-generation and run-time aspects of the Olivetti implementation have been removed and the toolkit has been altered to be compatible with the conventions assumed by the SRC compiler. The system is made available under the same licence terms as the SRC compiler. In addition the original Olivetti sources are covered by a separate, non-restrictive, copyright notice. The toolkit is designed to support the creation of Modula-3 program development tools and is structured around a compiler front-end which uses a public Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) to represent program source. A description of the system can be found in: "An Extensible Programming Environment for Modula-3", Mick Jordan, Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments, Software Engineering Notes, 15, 6, Dec 1990. A number of tools are provided with the toolkit, vis: * A compiler front-end (syntax/semantic analysis), with optional checks for unused variables, uncaught exceptions, etc. The compiler can compile multiple sources in one invocation and compiles each interface once only. * A tool to generate skeleton modules from interfaces. * A tool to build parameterised interfaces and modules from a generic specification. (Useful to experiment with generics in the interim). * A Makefile generator for Modula-3 libraries and applications. * A tool that is a step towards an integrated, incremental program development environment for Modula-3. It includes the compiler front end, a tool to scan the file system for source file changes and recompile changed (and dependent) units, a pre-linker to analyse a program for completeness, a primitive browser and the Makefile generator. The toolkit is designed to be extensible, by virtue of the AST and a collection of reusable compiler components. I expect to add more tools over time, and hope that others will be motivated to do so. The toolkit is stored in the directory /pub/DEC/Modula-3/m3tk in the file dist-1.0.tar.Z. Follow the same general instructions as per SRC Modula-3 to extract the distribution into a clean directory called, say, 'm3tk', and then read the file m3tk/dist-1.0/m3tk-install.notes. This file is also stored in /pub/DEC/Modula-3/m3tk/README. To make effective use of the tools you need a machine with at least 12Mb of main memory, preferably more. I run it on DECstation 3100/5100s and it has been tested on IBM kit (thanks to Dick Orgass) and on a Sparcstation (thanks for David Goldberg). I am reasonably confident that it will run on other systems without problems. Mick Jordan -- comp.archives file verification gatekeeper.dec.com total 912 -r--r--r-- 1 root 7573 May 10 15:46 README -r--r--r-- 1 root 911833 May 10 15:45 dist-1.0.tar.Z found m3tk ok gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/Modula-3/m3tk/