porting linux app. Syscalls

I'm new to the list (and to BSD development in general), and I'm developper of the FreePascal project (www.freepascal.org) which is a bootstrapping compiler, completely written in Pascal. Currently I started preparations for a port of the linux version to FreeBSD. FreePascal (FPC) doesn't defa

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Marco van de Voort wrote: > --- not related to the other 3 > 4. In the rare event that I get it finished this week; The ports howto doesn't seems >to > apply to bootstrapping stuff. (It assumes the apps are gcc based or created by > a gcc compiled app (like perl). > > Where

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

* Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000202 20:02] wrote: > > I'm new to the list (and to BSD development in general), and I'm developper > of the FreePascal project (www.freepascal.org) which is a bootstrapping > compiler, completely written in Pascal. > > Currently I started preparations

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

> what confuses me is that you don't support bootstrapping from the > system C compiler. How do you propose to do that with an all pascal source? Marco van de Voort ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe f

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

> > see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi > you can view linux syscalls from the slackware docs. Thank you that seems to be a good lead to start with. The problem was that I couldn't find any documentation :_) Marco van de Voort ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The modula-3 port is about the same size as yours, and it > bootstraps, but (like you said) it does it from C. Actually, the standard Modula-3 bootstraps contain assembly-language sources generated by a cross-compiler, not

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

Marco van de Voort wrote: > > what confuses me is that you don't support bootstrapping from the > > system C compiler. > > How do you propose to do that with an all pascal source? > I probably don't need to tell you this, but there is ports/lang/p2c. I've never used p2c, so I can't make any

Re: porting linux app. Syscalls

> > The modula-3 port is about the same size as yours, and it > > bootstraps, but (like you said) it does it from C. > > Actually, the standard Modula-3 bootstraps contain assembly-language > sources generated by a cross-compiler, not C. Actually that is the first plan too for fpc. This because