Compiling Pascal code in Pyromaniac

by gerph 4 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color ◆ fish 193 views

Norcroft works in Pyromaniac. So why not use it to compile some Pascal code? This example uses the Pascal-to-C toolchain I put together (just two tools really) back in 2005 so that I could write modules in Pascal instead of C… because I must hate myself that much? In this case, however, it’s just a very simple ‘Hello World’ tool.

The P2C toolchain compiled with no modifications from the 2005 version using the modern cross-compiling toolchain. No modification at all - I didn’t even change the Makefiles and it just worked, despite the fact that it was now being compiled on Darwin, not RISC OS.

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