OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux

• Posted by Pete Eberlein <xseal at HARBORSIDE.COM> Jan 10, 1999
• 589 views

Michael Sabal wrote:
> I posted a message last week (that I'm sure nobody read :)) about using
> Pete's Peuphoria in Linux.  Has anybody else even tried?  If I can get
> the current version to run, I'd be willing to write wrappers for the
> screen control (I think it's in termio.h in gcc, or conio.h for other C
> compilers) and whatever else I could find if there's interest.
>
> Pete, do you have anything to mention about Peuphoria's progress?

not much really.  I haven't been working on PEU at all lately.  Version
.10 has some bugs that cause it to sigsegv on linux and ux-hp.  Unreleased
version .11, being written mostly from scratch, avoids the problems in
previous versions (casting pointers as ints & vice versa), and is faster
too.  I've been working on setting up a linux machine to develop and
test it further... so far I've got RedHat 5.2 squeezed onto a 200M hd and
its not usable yet.  If I can get gcc running, I'll try to get a bugfixed
version ,10 binary distributable to those of you who are interested.
Version .11 is not very far along and has no sequence support, no
function/procedure calls, few built-in functions.  I'm also planning on
using storing sequences of integers 0..255 as plain bytes, so text
sequences will save space and require little or no conversion before
getting passed to c functions.  I'm also trying to make the parser do
heavy optimization of code, such as evaluating constant expressions at
translation-time and performing dead code removal.

I've also been kicking around an idea for a Euphoria compiler, which might
use NASM (also runs on linux!) as the underlying assembler.  MASM or TASM
could also be an option, both of which can also be used for win32
compilation.

Keep bugging me and maybe I'll get something done...
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