Hello, On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:36, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > There's a Plan 9 port of J 3.02 in /n/sources/contrib/miller/j/8.j > > > > 386 executable only, as I don't have permission to share source, but I can > > compile for other $objtypes on request. > > I recall the port being very simple to do, so it would probably be > worthwhile to do again now that it's open source. >
I tried to build and run a recent version of J on OpenBSD, and it wasn't straightforward for me (but I don't know much...). Their building system is a mess with many various conditions to guess the OS, processor, ... But. There are several parts of the system: jlibrary, jconsole, jqt. The first two I finally managed to compile on OpenBSD, I failed with jqt (which is a very nice qt-based environment, btw.) And nobody will use the latter on Plan9. I also note that there now exists a GPL'd version of the K language, Kona. That one was straightforward to build on OpenBSD. Ruda
