1. Euphoria for FreeBSD!
I've released Euphoria 2.3 for FreeBSD.
You can get the Interpreter and the Euphoria To C Translator
for FreeBSD from:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm
You first have to install Euphoria for Linux,
then replace exu with the one compiled for FreeBSD.
The two platforms are so similar, I decided to let
platform() return 3 for both of them. Otherwise
a lot of existing Linux code would break needlessly on FreeBSD.
The Interpreter source code product has also been updated
with the latest changes for FreeBSD, plus a
batch file for building Euphoria on FreeBSD.
The FreeBSD support will now be included free
with the Interpreter, Translator, and Source Code products.
If you registered already for 2.3, and you
want to add support for FreeBSD to whatever you bought,
send me an e-mail. Those who have the source, can update it
by following the same instructions as before - the .zip file
was updated today.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
2. Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!
On 0, Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>
> I've released Euphoria 2.3 for FreeBSD.
> You can get the Interpreter and the Euphoria To C Translator
> for FreeBSD from:
> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm
>
I don't have it myself, but this is still excellent news.
> You first have to install Euphoria for Linux,
> then replace exu with the one compiled for FreeBSD.
> The two platforms are so similar, I decided to let
> platform() return 3 for both of them. Otherwise
> a lot of existing Linux code would break needlessly on FreeBSD.
>
Then how do I tell the difference between a FreeBSD platform and a
Linux platform? Some Linux code (not a lot, but some) may not run on
FreeBSD.
Perhaps a unix_platform() function, which returns 1 on Linux and 2 on
FreeBSD and 0 on DOS/Windows?
jbrown
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3. Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!
'uname -s' shows OS name.
Here's the Linux programmer's man page on uname. I'd bet that freeBSD has
the same function. Someone would just have to inline some C code or wrap
the function in Eu (by someone, I of course mean someone besides me!):
UNAME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual UNAME(2)
NAME
uname - get name and information about current kernel
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/utsname.h>
int uname(struct utsname *buf);
DESCRIPTION
uname returns system information in the structure pointed
to by buf. The utsname struct is as defined in
<sys/utsname.h>:
struct utsname {
char sysname[SYS_NMLN];
char nodename[SYS_NMLN];
char release[SYS_NMLN];
char version[SYS_NMLN];
char machine[SYS_NMLN];
#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
char domainname[SYS_NMLN];
#endif
};
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned,
and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EFAULT buf is not valid.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN
The domainname member is a GNU extension.
SEE ALSO
uname(1), getdomainname(2), gethostname(2)
Linux 0.99.11 1993-07-24 UNAME(2)
--On Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:08 PM +0000 jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
>
> On 0, Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've released Euphoria 2.3 for FreeBSD.
>> You can get the Interpreter and the Euphoria To C Translator
>> for FreeBSD from:
>> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm
>>
>
> I don't have it myself, but this is still excellent news.
>
>> You first have to install Euphoria for Linux,
>> then replace exu with the one compiled for FreeBSD.
>> The two platforms are so similar, I decided to let
>> platform() return 3 for both of them. Otherwise
>> a lot of existing Linux code would break needlessly on FreeBSD.
>>
>
> Then how do I tell the difference between a FreeBSD platform and a
> Linux platform? Some Linux code (not a lot, but some) may not run on
> FreeBSD.
> Perhaps a unix_platform() function, which returns 1 on Linux and 2 on
> FreeBSD and 0 on DOS/Windows?
>
> jbrown
>
>
> --
> Please don't use http://fastmail.fm
> (I like feeling special.)
>
>
>
>
4. Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!
Ted Fines writes:
> 'uname -s' shows OS name.
On my Linux system, uname without any options, writes:
Linux
to standard output.
On FreeBSD, uname writes:
FreeBSD
to standard output.
The two systems are very similar.
If your program needs to make a distinction,
it's probably due to some library or executable
file that might not exist on both systems, so
you'd probably just test for the existence of that file.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!
Rob Craig writes:
> You first have to install Euphoria for Linux,
> then replace exu with the one compiled for FreeBSD.
> The two platforms are so similar, I decided to let
> platform() return 3 for both of them. Otherwise
> a lot of existing Linux code would break needlessly on FreeBSD.
As Eu ports for other platforms may follow, how about
extending platform() like this :
sequence s
s = extended_platform()
s[OSFAMILY] = "Unix","Dos","Windows","MacOS"
s[OSNAME] = "Windows","FreeBSD","Linux","OpenBSD","AIX","MacOS","MacOS X"...
s[OSVERSION] = xx.yy
s[ARCHITECTURE] = "mc68000","i386","IA-64","PowerPC"...
s[BYTE_ORDER] = BIG_ENDIAN,LITTLE_ENDIAN
...
Martin
Regards,
Martin Stachon
martin.stachon at worldonline.cz
http://www.webpark.cz/stachon
