winfave@dutrun.UUCP (Alexander Verbraeck) (03/20/90)
OK, we're now developing Eiffel programs that run well under
UNIX. Our target however, is running the executables on more
portable platforms. (portable in the sense of being able to give
demonstrations of the executable on a various number of
locations. (I consider an OS2-machine as just portable, or at
least transportable).
As far as I know there is no Eiffel compiler for OS2 or DOS. But
there is a workaround: develop under UNIX, (pre-)compile to C-
code and then port the C-code to the target machine. My question
is: did anybody try this and if so, how easy is it.
(Far in the back of my mind I remember a posting from Craig St...
(forgot the last name, sorry), who had tried moving to Microsoft
C, but he bounced into problems about macro's; if I'm correct it
had to with exceeding the maximum number of macro-definitions the
C compiler was willing to accept. Come to think about it, that
message was posted on this newsgroup almost two years ago or so,
so there is a good chance these problems are solved. Are they ?
:-)
repliers.thanksALot("In advance");
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-------------------------------------------------------------------winfrjs@dutrun.UUCP (Robert J. Streng) (03/24/90)
The following article was posted for me last week, but I don't
think it made it outside Delft. So here's a repost.
*****-> original article follows
OK, we're now developing Eiffel programs that run well under
UNIX. Our target however, is running the executables on more
portable platforms. (portable in the sense of being able to give
demonstrations of the executable on a various number of
locations. (I consider an OS2-machine as just portable, or at
least transportable).
As far as I know there is no Eiffel compiler for OS2 or DOS. But
there is a workaround: develop under UNIX, (pre-)compile to C-
code and then port the C-code to the target machine. My question
is: did anybody try this and if so, how easy is it.
(Far in the back of my mind I remember a posting from Craig St...
(forgot the last name, sorry), who had tried moving to Microsoft
C, but he bounced into problems about macro's; if I'm correct it
had to with exceeding the maximum number of macro-definitions the
C compiler was willing to accept. Come to think about it, that
message was posted on this newsgroup almost two years ago or so,
so there is a good chance these problems are solved. Are they ?
:-)
repliers.thanksALot("In advance");
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Robert J. Streng Delft University of Technology
Department of Information Systems
duticai@winfrjs.tudelft.nl P.O. Box 356
Tel. (+31) 15 - 783805 2600 AJ Delft
Private (+31) 15 - 618951 The Netherlands
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