Oxygen Basic

Information => Open Forum => Topic started by: JRS on May 05, 2011, 04:15:27 PM

Title: Vala
Post by: JRS on May 05, 2011, 04:15:27 PM

Charles,

Have you look at Vala (http://live.gnome.org/Vala) as an alternative to FB as your high level assembler for OxygenBasic?

Armando thinks it's great and has even abandoned he MBC (BCX for Mac/Linux) for Vala (Genie) if that says anything.

John 

Title: Re: Vala
Post by: Charles Pegge on May 06, 2011, 02:37:53 AM

I've just had a quick look John. It's quite high level and emits C as I understand it. I'll try FB before looking at other options, since I have used it before for cross platform coding (o2 machine script only).

I'm thinking of switching priorities to put Linux porting before 64 bits RTL. 64 bit computing is not the holy grail it seems to be. - the calling conventions are only good for OS developers. Evidently lesser mortals did not get a say in the decision making!

Charles

Title: Re: Vala
Post by: jcfuller on May 06, 2011, 04:53:21 AM

Charles,
  Don't forget you also have Jwasm for all four platforms too Win32/64, Linux32/64 with Masm syntax.

James

Title: Re: Vala
Post by: Charles Pegge on May 06, 2011, 12:53:56 PM

For some platforms, it can only be Java! The inner workings are made inaccessible. I don't know whether this is a future trend but being flexible on the output side is likely to be a necessity.

Charles