[Oberon] Oberon 3 on Windows 7, PELinker, Windows executable

[Dieter]

Hi Oleg,

this is the type of information I expected from joining this list. Thank 
you.

The reason for using Oberon 3 and trying to use PELinker is, that I know 
Oberon 3 for 20 years.
And that I am happy with the environment as it is.
After all, the PELinker cannot be so bad, because it makes also the 
Oberon 3-system run on Windows.
But it seems fair to assume that, since the last innovation on Oberon 3  
(apart from an adaption to Vista and Windows7) is ten years old,
  this is may be not  the future platform for Oberon development.

So the question will be, which environment to choose in the long run. My 
present application is a converter from MusicXML (a proprietary 
description language for musical notes)
into another notes description language called PMX (a tool for 
generating MusixTeX code). It is almost finished, and I still hope I get 
my problems sorted out with PELinker.

If not, I will have to port my stuff onto one of your proposed 
environments. The important criterion for me is the porting effort.

I am using the Modules "Out, Oberon, Strings, Texts, Objects, Files".  
And I would hope that there will be similar libraries available
in one or the other Oberon environment and that the syntax is 99 % 
compatible.

Regards,
Dieter


Am 15.03.2015 um 00:35 schrieb Oleg N. Cher:
> Hi, Dieter,
>
> Why do you want use exactly Oberon 3 and PELinker? May be that it is not
> very ideal to solve your task.
>
> Another variants to develop *.exe for Windows:
>
>
> 1. OPCL - Oberon Portable Compiler & Linker (ETH Oberon compiler adapted
> for command-line):
>
>     https://sourceforge.net/projects/opcl
>
>
> 2. BlackBox Component Builder:
>
>     http://www.zinnamturm.eu/downloads.htm
>     http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html
>     http://blackboxframework.org
>
> Component Pascal compiler (from BlackBox):
>
>     https://sourceforge.net/projects/cp-dev/
>
>     ( Component Pascal is a small superset of Oberon-2 )
>
> How to build stand-alone command-line executable under BlackBox:
>
>     http://zx.oberon2.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=240
>
> Modules CmdLine and Console for BlackBox:
>
>     https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/XDev/blob/master/Bb/Mod/CmdLine.odc
>     https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/XDev/blob/master/Bb/Mod/Console.odc
>
>
> 3. XDev - Oberon-2 over translation to C - based on BlackBox and Ofront:
>
>     https://sourceforge.net/projects/bb-xdev/
>
>     Subsystem WinDev for target Windows 32/64 you can download at:
>
>     https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/XDev/
>
>
> Also there are traditional IDE environments:
>
> 4. XDS (Modula-2/Oberon-2 compiler for Windows and Linux):
>
>     http://www.excelsior-usa.com/xds.html
>
>
> 5. POW! (old and does not install on Win64):
>
>     http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/pow/
>
>
> Oberon 3 has not WinApi bindings, if you need it.
>
> Bindings to WinApi are present in BlackBox, XDev, XDS and POW!
>
> Also BlackBox may uses Windows COM-interfaces.
>
>
> Personally I recommend XDev. It's the one (known for me) Oberon-2
> implementation for generating not only 32 bit code, but 64 bit too - for
> Windows and Linux (except pure translators to C - Ofront, OO2C and
> XDS-C). Using XDev-style development you can build your code with help
> of GCC for any target, if you'll need.
>
> Now XDev is under development. And I can help you to start with it, just
> write me e-mail.
>
>
> Dieter wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>
>> I am new to this list, but do have some 20 years experience with Oberon
>> on Windows.
>> Still there are things which I do not fully understand, e.g. PELinker
>> and Oberon debugger.
>>
>> Right now I am working on an application which translates MusicXML (a
>> proprietary language to describe musical notes) into another input
>> language, called PMX, which in turn generates TeX-code for typesetting
>> notes.
>>
>> Is there anywhere out in Cyber Space someone, who could give me a
>> helping hand on how to use PELinker in order to transform an
>> Oberon-Module into a Windows *.exe, so that I can call it from the
>> WIndows command line in the following form:
>> /myprogram.exe "path to input file" "path to output file"/
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Dieter
>>
>>
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>
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