INTRODUCTION
OBNC is a compiler for Niklaus Wirth's programming language Oberon. It translates Oberon modules into C code. The build command (obnc) invokes both the Oberon compiler (obnc-compile) and the host C compiler and sorts out all dependencies.
OBNC follows POSIX standard. This implies that it should compile and run on a POSIX compatible operating system.
INSTALLATION
Make sure you have Boehm-Demers-Weiser's garbage collector GC installed on your system. To use the basic library modules Input and XYplane you also need SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer). On a Debian system you install these dependencies with the command
apt install libgc-dev libsdl1.2-dev
Compile OBNC with the command
./build
By default OBNC is built to be installed in /usr/local. If you want to use installation directory D instead, add --prefix=D' to the build command. For other build options, run./build -h'.
Optionally, run unit tests with the command
./test
Install OBNC with the command
./install
To undo the installation, run ./install u'. For other installation options, run./install -h'.
COMMANDS
bin/obnc Oberon build tool
bin/obnc-compile Oberon-to-C compiler
bin/obnc-path Oberon module finder
bin/obncdoc Oberon documentation generator
DOCUMENTATION
share/doc/obnc/oberon-report.html Oberon language reference
share/doc/obnc/obncdoc/obnc Basic library modules
share/man/man1/ OBNC commands
LICENSE
OBNC is released under the GNU General Public License (see file COPYING), with the exception of library source files in lib/obnc which are released under the Mozilla Public License (see file lib/obnc/LICENSE). Copyright years written as a range means that each year in the range is "copyrightable."
AUTHOR
Karl Landstrom karl@miasap.se