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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: M2 & Windows
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.061230.17825@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Jan 90 06:12:30 GMT
References: <INFO-M2%90011916351822@UCF1VM.BITNET> <m0gpowX-0000CeC@aragorn>
Reply-To: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
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In article <m0gpowX-0000CeC@aragorn> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> writes:
>In comp.lang.modula2 you write:
>
>
>>    Has anyone out there successfully interfaced Logitech Modula-2 with
>>  Windows?  I have been playing around with the Windows libraries and
>
>   I'm afraid your Modula-compiler doesn't know about a MS-specific prolog/
>   epilog, so your compiler is not able to generate windows-programs at all.
>
>   (I posted yesterday for a research for a compiler that support windows.
>    We'll see what I'll get.)
>
>   I hope it hit you not too hard, but I'm afraid there's no way!
>   (Perhaps a real guru will find a hack, but I don't beleive, because
>    the prolog/epilog-structure must be embedded deep in the code-generator
>    of the compiler and I haven't ever seen the source of a Modula-Compiler.)

The source of a modula 2 compiler is widely available through DECUS.  It's
written in Modula 2 (of course), and is essentially the ETH compiler.  So
it's back to the issue of whether a Windows guru can be found to fix up the
special stuff.
                                  Steve J.