Re: GNU Pascal is still kind of alive

On 10 Jan 2017 at 10:52, Kevan Hashemi wrote:

> Dear Chief,
> 
>  > Is there anyone else out there?
> 
> I can hire a computer science student for the summer to work on GPC, but
> I don't think they will be capable of doing much with the migration to
> newer versions of GCC. They may be able to help with other projects.

That sounds promising!
 
[...]
> If we can be sure of compiling GCC 3.4.6 on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
> using whatever version of GCC is current for those platforms, then I
> think we should be okay. I'm confident we can do so on Windows 32-bit,
> Linux 32-bit and Linux 64-bit. I can't compile GCC 3.4.6 on Windows
> 64-bit I believe because of divergeance between MinGW 64-bit and MinGW
> 32-bit. On MacOS I can't compile GCC 3.4.6. It took me some time to get
> GPC to run on MacOS 10.7.5, but I just posted my notes on how to do
> that.
> 
> http://alignment.hep.brandeis.edu/Software/Pascal/Pascal.html#Notes
> 
> We (my group) is going to try to get the same MacOS GPC binaries working
> on MacOS 10.9 and later.

I have not tried to build on the current gcc version for my Linux box - 
I just carry with me my binary gpc tarball built on 4.1.2, with its own 
statically linked gcc-4.1.2 environment (which can build gpc without 
fuss). This has served my needs regardless of which Linux version I 
happen to be using (and I have quite a few different Linux VMs).

Perhaps such a complete gcc build environment from an earlier MacOS 
could be used as a last resort?  Or perhaps you are keen to use the 
latest and best features of the current MacOS compiler? (I personally 
just need a gpc that runs and compiles my programs correctly).

> > Mac OSX seems to have major issues here, but it is probably nothing
> > that cannot be solved by; [a] suitably amending the gpc driver program
> > (gpc.c) to pass on any needed arguments, or [b] by writing a custom
> > collect2.c to replace the default collect2.c, and compiling it
> > separately, or [c] by writing your own os-hacks.h and putting in the
> > include directory.
> 
> Okay. We will look into that here.
> 
> > If anyone is interested, I have samples of [a], [b] and [c]
> 
> I have your os-hacks.h file. Is there more? If so, then yes I'm
> interested.

Will send that by private email (unless someone on this list is 
desperate to see C source code).

Best regards, The Chief
--------
Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
web:  http://www.greatchief.plus.com/


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