Frank Jahnke wrote:
I am writing you all to inquire about the status of the GNU Pascal compiler on FreeBSD. It is mentioned quite prominently on the gpc homepage as a supported platform, yet it is not in the FreeBSD ports collection. Browsing the archives on gnu-pascal.de shows some intermittent interest, but no real success stories, at least for recent OS versions.
I have quite some old pascal code that I would like to use with the rest of the GNU compiler family. gpc would seem to be the way to go, if that would be possible.
Could anyone share with me what the status of gpc is on FreeBSD? For what it's worth, I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with gcc 3.3.3.
There have been a few small problems which should have been fixed in the last alpha (20030830). I've tested on netbsd last year. Did you try building it yourself? If there are problems, you can report them here and we'll try to fix them. Otherwise, someone "just" needs to make a FreeBSD port out of it. I don't know how this works exactly (and I won't be able to help much there since I'm busy enough already), but I suppose if the manual build procedure works, it shouldn't be difficult.
Frank