nimforum mirror - Running on iMac G3

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-05-23T23:33:27+02:00] view original

Turns out, it was trivial to get Nimrod running on an iMac G3. In the build.sh script, I changed it to be:

i386 | i486 | i586 | i686 | bepc | i86pc | ppc )

and it just worked. This same change also works on iBook G4 computers. Both are running Debian.

Araq (orginal) [2013-05-24T00:44:17+02:00] view original

That looks like it worked by chance. ;-) You should have added *ppc* to the *power* | *Power* branch. Otherwise the resulting Nimrod compiler thinks your Power PC is an intel x86 CPU ...

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-05-26T01:30:05+02:00] view original

It does think it's a 386, but the pointer sizes match sizeof(int), and when I make the addition to the powerpc line, it does not compile. The powerpc branch of the compile list seems to be missing.

Araq (orginal) [2013-05-26T09:57:16+02:00] view original

To fix it properly:

edit tools/niminst/buildsh.tmpl (note: this change is already on github) instead of build.sh

edit compiler/nimrod.ini and add ;powerpc to the CPU list (note: i386 needs to stay the first entry)

run koch csource -d:release

run ./build.sh

I would do it and upload a new nimrod_0.9.2.zip but then packagers already started to take checksums of the existing .zip ... Maybe we need a build number.

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-05-27T06:25:32+02:00] view original

I just tried that, but when I do the koch csource -d:release command, it goes into a loop and compiles the same file over and over.

No need to hurry with this, I can use my original fix until the next release.

Araq (orginal) [2013-05-27T07:04:53+02:00] view original

Well it compiles the compiler for every given OS/CPU combination, so yeah this takes a while and "compiles the same file over and over" but it's not an endless loop.

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-06-02T00:07:49+02:00] view original

I just tried this on an iMac. First it told me that arm:powerpc was not a recognized CPU. I then tried ppc instead of powerpc, and got arm:ppc not a recognized CPU.

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-06-02T00:11:59+02:00] view original

Found it, my typo in the nimrod.ini file.

adamss3 (orginal) [2013-07-16T23:01:15+02:00] view original

I was attempting to build on a new iBook. When I follow the steps above, I now get:

adamss@iBookf:~/Nimrod$ ./build.sh gcc -w -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -Ibuild -c build/2_4/nimrod.c -o build/2_4/nimrod.o build/2_4/nimrod.c:65:1: error: unknown type name ‘jmp_buf’

which is new. It worked fine on other systems.

Araq (orginal) [2013-07-19T12:51:58+02:00] view original

Please make a proper bug report.

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