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This is a huge port. It probably should be split into several separate ports, but Modula-3's lack of popularity doesn't justify the large effort that would require yet. This port will download a "bootstrap" compiler which builds a fresh compiler and small set of core components. The fresh compiler will then build everything else. This includes, among other things: * CM3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) * CM3 Code Generator based on gcc 4.3 * CM3 Middle- and back- ends * CVSup (CM3 is too new to build the CVSUP already in ports) * M3 GDB (GNU Debugger) * M3 GUI and networking support * M3 Quake * some demos * many examples * many CM3 tools * Oblique * Caltech Parser toolset * Full M3 library * Lots of documentation and man pages Intentionally left out for now: six (6) games, three (3) webdev progs, kate (gui), sgml+deepcopy (devlib), pp (m3devtool) This is the latest release of the Critical Mass Modula-3 (CM3) collection, version 5.8.6, and it was released in July 2010. Days were spent developing this port, but not so much time was developed to quality assurance. I added a "recent" patch from upstream for network concurrency and also modified the getaddrbyname implementation as the original one raised IPError exceptions due to my VM not having a fully qualified hostname and external IP address. My modification makes the exception look up hostent with 127.0.0.1 first, then raise a new exception on error. It seems to work, but like I said, it was not heavily tested. Most of the programs require a running X (Trestle), which I don't have at the moment, so they stop with an appropriate raised exception. I only assume they work, I'll have to check later. Right now only FreeBSD AMD64 is supported. I do not expect to attempt to support FreeBSD i386. I will probably make an attempt to cross-compile this on DragonFly x86-64 after appropriate patches are added. A few months ago I nearly succeeded in porting CM3 to DragonFly and I expect to succeed on the next attempt. If other platforms are desired, somebody else will have to create bootstraps and any necessary patches. This was built and poudriere-tested on FreeBSD 9.2. Only libc, libm, and libpthread are dynamically loaded so it should build fine on FreeBSD 8.4. I don't have access to my Redports repository ATM so I can't test FreeBSD 10+, but I will attempt to fix should it fail to build on those platforms. Hopefully someone will find this port useful. I was surprised that apparently the full Modula-3 compiler set has never been ported to FreeBSD, only the ezm3 version needed to build cvsup. Modula-3 is a nice language that probably deserved to be widely used outside of academia.
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Modula-3 is a systems programming language that descends from Mesa,
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Modula-2, Cedar, and Modula-2+. It also resembles its cousins Oberon,
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Object Pascal, and Euclid.
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Modula-3 retains one of Modula-2's most successful features, the provision
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of explicit interfaces between modules. It adds objects and classes,
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exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight processes (or threads),
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and the isolation of unsafe features.
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This is the Critical Mass implementation.
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WWW: http://www.modula3.org
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