Re: Euphoria 3.0.0 Released! - what about Openwatcom?
schrott wrote:
> Nice to see that Euphoria is now actually open source.
> So I went and tried to build it.
>
> There's no mention anywhere in the build
> instructions what Watcom version should be used.
> From looking inside the exw.exe I see that it is probably build
> with some old (10,11?) version of the Watcom Compiler.
>
> Now, I have tried building it with Openwatcom 1.5. First it
> seemed like there are no bigger problems. I left INT_CODES
> defined. exw.exe was built without problems.
>
> First example i tried was animal.x. Worked.
> Second example was the sieve Benchmark. This doesn't work, it hangs.
> I ran the sieve8k.exw with trace. It hangs at line 42. ENDFOR statement.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?
>
> From looking at source I see that there are quite a few Watcom-specific
> hacks. Now I really think that Openwatcom should be properly supported.
> From what I understand BCC and LCC dont seem to have "threaded code"
> implemented and are thus much slower. Or maybe support gcc/mingw32 on
> windows? That's quite common nowadays.
I'm using Watcom 10.6, but I have built everything recently
using Open Watcom. I believe there is one line of C source
that has to change with Open Watcom. You'll get an error message,
but the comment I added tells you how to correct it. You'll
probably also have to adjust the stack offsets in be_callc.c
and be_task.c, to get calls to C dll routines working,
and multitasking working with the Translator.
By the way, you can always run the Translator as a normal
interpreted program. I only translate/compile it for added speed.
I build the Windows translator using Borland (-bor option),
but there is no particular reason for that, other than
I thought it would be nice to test the translator with Borland
on each build. -wat could be used.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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