Re: [Gm2] running gm2 on ubuntu-i386

[Gaius Mulley]

jose ramon mazaira <address@hidden> writes:

> First of all, I'd like to thank you your effort in building a high
> quality, open-source, modula-2 compiler.
> I've also installed it and I've been able to run it finally without
> problems. Before that, I experienced some trouble that I've solved
> successfully, so I hope that my experience can be useful for potential
> users. The trouble I had was related to the ranlib library, which is
> part of the binutils package. The compiler complained that an library
> file (.a) was missing.The only thing I did was to upgrade to the most
> recent version of binutils (2.20.51).

Hi Jose,

thanks for the info on ranlib - I'll add this to the gm2 webpages and
also provide a link to Modulipse.  

> I think that a link to Modulipse IDE in your page could be useful for
> potential users.
> I have an additional question: do you plan to release an open-source
> translator from Modula-2 to Oberon or Object Pascal?

no plans to write this :-).  Within the source tarball of gm2 there is a
p2c translator - which I didn't write - but I have maintained it and
nudged it towards Modula-2 -> C (except/finally, interface to C and
various other features/bugfixes over the years).   I plan to keep
working on gm2 and aim to graft it onto the GCC trunk,

regards,
Gaius