free Dylan on dos/windows: not really, yet
Steve Strassmann
>Date: 13 Mar 1995 13:17:01 GMT
>Subject: Where can I find a dylan compiler?
>
>I'm terribly sorry to ask you a so stupid question, but I didn't find the FAQ
>file and I know anything about dylan.
>
>One of my teachers asked me to find a free-ware compiler (does it exist?)
>for dos/windows system.
There are two reasonably up-to-date, freeware Dylan implementations that
have been released so far: Marlais, an interpreter, and Mindy, a byte-code
compiler.
A version of Marlais has been ported to Windows, and is available from
ftp://cambridge.apple.com/pub/dylan/Marlais. It's not quite as up-to-date
as the unix and Mac versions of Marlais, and I believe the garbage
collector has not been fully installed.
As far as I know, nobody's ported Mindy to Windows yet, but the sources are
also available on our ftp site. If anyone out there would be interested in
doing so, or in bringing Windows Marlais up to date with the latest Marlais
sources, untold fame and glory awaits you!
Our FAQ, and other info, are also available at our ftp site, and on
our world-wide web pages at http://www.cambridge.apple.com.
Patrick C. Beard
st...@cambridge.apple.com writes:
>A version of Marlais has been ported to Windows, and is available from
>ftp://cambridge.apple.com/pub/dylan/Marlais. It's not quite as up-to-date
>as the unix and Mac versions of Marlais, and I believe the garbage
>collector has not been fully installed.
A version of the Boehm collector exists for OS/2, so it should be reasonable to
get it running under a 32-bit Windows. Don't bother with 16-bit Windows.
The collector assumes a flat address space, pretty much.
// author: Patrick C. Beard
// organization: Computing Research Group
// e-mail: be...@cs.ucdavis.edu
Brent Benson
#
# In article <ab8ae4d40e021004459e@[198.112.74.146]> Steve Strassmann,
# st...@cambridge.apple.com writes:
# >A version of Marlais has been ported to Windows, and is available from
# >ftp://cambridge.apple.com/pub/dylan/Marlais. It's not quite as up-to-date
# >as the unix and Mac versions of Marlais, and I believe the garbage
# >collector has not been fully installed.
#
# A version of the Boehm collector exists for OS/2, so it should be reasonable to
# get it running under a 32-bit Windows. Don't bother with 16-bit Windows.
# The collector assumes a flat address space, pretty much.
The latest version of the Boehm collector works under Win32 and
Win32s. If I get a chance I'm going to attempt to build a Win32s
Marlais executable.
--
Brent Benson
Concentra Corporation