====================================== File: oo2c_32-1.3.13-ppc.pkg Author: Michael Griebling (mgriebling@inspired.to) Release: V1.3.13 for BeOS, 31 December 1998 Compatibility: R3/R4 Location: contrib/lang Description: Optimizing Oberon-2 compiler and libraries. Notes: Now includes precompiled binaries and uses an automated installation. I'm not the author of this package but only ported it to the BeOS and contributed some of the library packages. Please contact me at the address above for BeOS porting questions and Michael van Acken, one of the authors, at the address below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- oo2c is the first compiler of the OOC project. OOC's goal is to provide optimizing native code Oberon-2 compilers for a number of popular computer architectures. The OOC home page is http://www.uni-kl.de/OOC/ Current oo2c versions and patches are available at http://www.uni-kl.de/OOC/files/oo2c/ The compiler's requirements are o a 32 bit Unix system o an ANSI-C compiler o ANSI and POSIX.1 libraries. Please drop me a note if oo2c doesn't compile on your system although it meets the above requirements. I'll try to adjust the compiler resp. its configuration process. As of oo2c 1.3.6, the distribution no longer includes the sources of Hans-J. Boehm's conservative garbage collector. To use the garbage collector, either install gc as a proper library, or unpack the garbage collector sources in oo2c's top-level directory, prior to running configure. Also, oo2c now expects GNU libtool to be installed on the target system. See file INSTALL for details. This distribution contains the OOC Reference Manual in info format and as texinfo source. The HTML version of the reference manual can be found at http://www.uni-kl.de/OOC/OOCref/OOCref_toc.html The manual is also available in texinfo, info, and postscript format from the file server: http://www.uni-kl.de/OOC/files/docs/ Manual pages are also included, but the man page for the compiler oo2c is only a subset of the information in the reference manual. I've had reports of successful installation on the following systems: operating system compiler ----------------------------- --------------------------- Linux 2.0.35 gcc 2.7.2.2 SunOS 4.1.2/3 aka Solaris 1.1 gcc 2.5.5, gcc 2.7.2 SunOS 5.4 aka Solaris 2.4 gcc 2.7.2.1, SunPRO-C 3.0.1 HP-UX A.09.01 gcc 2.5.8, gcc 2.7.2.2 HP-UX B.10.20 gcc 2.7.2.1 BeOS PR 2 mwcc BeOS/R3 not verified again since oo2c version 1.0.0: SunOS 5.5 aka Solaris 2.5 [1] gcc 2.7.2.1 AIX 3.2.5 gcc 2.7.0 IRIX 5.3 gcc 2.7.2 SparcLinux 2.0.18 [2] gcc 2.7.2 [1] on an UltraSPARC, compiled as 32 bit application [2] needs --disable-gc Needless to say, bug reports are welcome. Please check first if the bug is present in the most recent version of oo2c (see above for the file server). If this is the case, try to create a small program that will reproduce the error. Ideally this program is a single module with just enough lines of code to trigger the bug. Send me this module, together with the following information: o how the bug manifests itself o the version of oo2c and the options you used to compile the program (add --write-config to oo2c's command line to obtain this information) o the C compiler (if possible with version number) oo2c builds upon and any additional options you passed to it o what operating system you're using The latter two points are important if the bug is caused by some quirk in the C compiler or OS. -- Michael van Acken ======================================