Re: [Factor-talk] SwiftForth vs. Factor

[Adam <hi...@gm...>]

Hugh,

In the unmaintained repository in the git master branch (unmaintained
folder) you will find the old ARM port.  This needs some work but would
probably help your cross-compilation efforts if they involve ARM.  Factor
used to run on 'beefy' Windows CE/gumstix type devices with an ARM CPU and
plenty of ram to accommodate the compiler on the device as there haven't
been any cross-compilations efforts undertaken as of yet.

A great place to talk about compiler/assembler internals is #concatenative
on irc.freenode.net.  Cross-compilation would be a great contribution to the
Factor project.

I hope you are enjoying you experiences so far!

-Adam



On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Hugh Aguilar <Hug...@ro...>wrote:

>  I had previously used SwiftForth ver. 2 from Forth Inc. under Windows XP,
> which cost me $500. Now it doesn't work properly under Windows Vista (the
> help system is kaput, for one thing). Forth Inc.'s help desk says: "You can
> buy a cheap upgrade to the current version [3]." This would cost $296, which
> is not cheap --- and it is still just a Windows product, with no support for
> Linux. It seems to me that they should have upgraded me at no charge beyond
> the $500 that I already paid. It is not my fault that Microsoft came out
> with this weirdly incompatible Vista. Considering that Factor is free, I
> don't see any reason to spend $296 at Forth Inc. --- that would be throwing
> good money after bad.
>
> Do any of you have experience with SwiftForth or SwiftX? Their main selling
> point is cross-compilation to microcontrollers (the SwiftX product series).
> When I wrote my MFX (MiniForth X-compiler) though, I wrote it from scratch
> in UR/Forth because Forth Inc. wouldn't provide source-code for
> SwiftForth/SwiftX, but LMI did provide source-code for UR/Forth (requiring a
> non-disclosure statement). In some ways, my cross-compiler was actually
> better than the SwiftX products, despite being written in UR/Forth which is
> rather primitive compared to SwiftForth. Have any of you guys done any
> cross-compilation in Factor?
>
>
>
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