Re: [ooc-compiler] Im new here and need 1st help

[Stewart G. <sgr...@ip...>]

Michael van Acken wrote:
> 
> "Ulrich Schmidt" <ul...@gm...> writes:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > Im a Pascal fan and i want bild a compiler for epoc, that is running
> > on epoc (ARM7100).  oberon is not far away from pascal and i think
> > its easier to port ooc to epoc than to port free pascal or virtual
> > pascal :) firt i tried to compile the ooc sources with POW under
> > win98, but it seens this compiler doesnt like compiler switches.
> 
> > So my 1st question is: what a (freeware) compiler compiler compiles the ooc
> > sourses?
> 
> oo2c compiles oo2c.  There are no other options ;-)

gcc? ;-) 

You can compile oo2c under win98 using the cygnus tools
(http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/). Once you've bootstrapped oo2c with the
C compiler, it will compile itself.

> 
> > any howtos around?
> 
> "Howtos" on which topic?  The bulk of OOC documentation is in the
> Reference Manual.  It is linked on http://ooc.sourceforge.net/.
> 
> > is there a backend for Intel x86 ?
> > is there a backend for ARM7xxx already?
> > is there a backend howto available?
> 
> No to all three questions.

But of course, you can target almost any CPU with the C back end and the
appropriate C compiler. However, oo2c does not cross-compile in its
standard configuration.

I ran oo2c natively under ARM Linux without difficulty. The only problem
was related to the word ordering for double precision REAL, but there is a
workaround already documented under PROBLEMS (see the comments for
NetBSD/arm32).

Compaq have a cluster of SA110 Linux boxes publically available for porting
code to their iPaq PDA which uses the SA1110 CPU. 

Cheers,
  Stewart