OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria for FreeBSD!

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Apr 20, 2002
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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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