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Software News   Software News : PortablE compiler released
   posted by ChrisH on 15-Jun-2008 12:31:31 (4311 reads)


PortablE is an AmigaE compiler, written from scratch in E, and able to compile itself. It supports Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS & MorphOS.

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It attempts to improve on the AmigaE language, and also to make it portable across various OSes. Backwards compatibility was not a top priority, although I feel it is pretty good now.

PortablE is not a traditional compiler, because it doesn't output machine code, or even assembler, but rather it translates your code into another language (not just C++) for a chosen OS (not just AmigaOS). You would then be expected to give the output code to a 'real' compiler.

When PortablE is generating the target code, it tries to preserve most of the formatting & layout of the (original) source code. The aim here is that someone could edit the target code instead, and perhaps even use it instead of the source code.

If you want to find out more, or download it, then please visit it's home page:
cshandley.co.uk/portable
    

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Re: PortablE compiler released
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A compiler that is able to compile itself means that it's ready for use. Congratulations.

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It's been able to compile itself since January but I have mainly been working on improving the AmigaE backwards compatibility since then...


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great news!
so it's time to start to port old os3 stuff to modern amigas now?


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This is a great notice for the Amiga users begin to programming their own tools, programs and games for after they give us.
Congratulations!

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@SpotUP who said Quote:
so it's time to start to port old os3 stuff to modern amigas now?

I hope so! The only likely issue is that it does not yet include all the modules that may be used by old AmigaE programs. But (in principle) anyone can port modules, if they have the source code available, or if there are C++ #include equivalents.

Last edited by ChrisH on 15-Jun-2008 at 01:42 PM.
Last edited by ChrisH on 15-Jun-2008 at 01:38 PM.
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Re: PortablE compiler released
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more E for the people

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It's not for me as I'm not an E programmer, but it looks fab! Well done ChrisH It's this kind of computing enthusiast project that still makes the Amiga great IMO.

What's your future plans for PortablE, by the way?

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Great to see this now released publicly!
You have really put a lot of work into this Chris, congratulations!


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Re: PortablE compiler released
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The beginner's guide to E on your site is broken.

Last edited by Legion on 16-Jun-2008 at 12:33 AM.


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@Legion
How is the beginner's guide "broken"? It works fine here! And what browser are you using?


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@smithy who wrote Quote:
What's your future plans for PortablE, by the way?

My immediate plans will probably change, but currently I am aiming to get it working on Windows - so that I can then write (non-GUI) programs which automatically work on both Amiga *and* Windows.

From day one, the whole idea of PortablE has been to avoid tying myself to any particular OS, and instead be able to write programs which run on any & every computer/smartphone/PDA that I have. Still a long way to go before I complete that plan, but it's already pretty useful.


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Wau... Now I just have to learn E aswell :=)

Keep up the good work..


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Keep up the good work ! It looks interesting. I might have a look at E this summer when I have more time, it's a nice language.

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Quote:
The beginner's guide to E on your site is broken.


It actually works fine in firefox, but doesn't work in IE (i know...), your BASE HREF="beginner_1.html" is incorrect. It should be BASE HREF="http://cshandley.co.uk/JasonHulance/", or omitted completely, I would guess it was incorrectly added by texi2html.

And congratulations on the release, new languages are always fun to take a look at.

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@Bragg
Thanks for identifying the problem, it is now fixed.

@Legion
Thanks for reporting the problem.

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It exports to other languages??? I predict huge executables...

... but I'll try it anyway. With some existing E code!

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@mwoof
No larger than normal C/C++ apps - which is of course larger than AmigaE ones, but AmigaE doesn't support OS4, AROS, or any of the improvements I've made...


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Bah, the first page of the Beginner's Guide still did not work in Internet Explorer, due to an oversight on my part. Anyway, it's REALLY fixed now...

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