[lbpp-devel] GLBCC Status 01/06/2002

[Anthony L. <aj...@be...>]

Greetings,

It's been a while since I've posted status to this list.  I just simply
have been lazy though ;-)

Lots of stuff has happened.  We are starting to get some solid interest
in GLBCC and are getting much closer to working out the Windows issues.

I have successfully built a few versions of GCC (including a Win32 cross
compiler).  I also have set up the latest Cygwin environment on a
Windows machine.  I intend to try my luck at building a native Mingw
version of GCC to better support Windows.

The Win32 cross compiler that I built was under 2MB on Linux which would
make the full cross-compiler distro for Linux knocked down to 2MB!
That's a big improvement over the 6MB it was previously.

I imagine the Win32 package should drop down to a similar size also.
Again, this is a huge savings.

In some unrelated news, GLBCC was added as a Featured Project of the
SourceForge BASIC Foundry.  I was contacted by Dejan Lekic directly to
be informed of this and was also pleased to hear that he rated GLBCC as
a 6 - the highest value possible.  I'm excited about the opportunity to
exchange ideas and code with the other members of the BASIC Foundry.

You can learn more about the SourceForge BASIC Foundry here:

http://SourceForge.net/Foundry/BASIC

I don't think I made an announcement on this list, but I recently a
grammar to describe the Liberty Basic language.  This grammar is a
_huge_ improvement from the previous method in which LBPP parsed Liberty
Basic code.

I am trying to take this grammar and integrate it directly with GCC.
I may release a C translator in the interim though as a teaser and as a
means to start work on the new libLB which will be written in a
combination of C and Liberty Basic.  Liberty Basic can be used mainly
because of the support for FUNCTION and SUB statements in the new
grammar.  I may also add a DECLARE statement so that API calls can be
used.

I also previously released a LB to XML translator that is available from
CVS.  If you search the web page a bit, all the latest goodies can be
found :)

I'd like to see more traffic on this list - and I am actually to blame
for lack of it recently - so I am going to make an effort to post things
as they happen here.

The web page also is started to be in need of some serious help.  I've
had some people express interest in working on the web site so
hopefully, that should be happening relatively soon.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Author - GLBCC (GNU/Liberty Basic Compiler Collection)
http://lbpp.sourceforge.net