GNU C++ works well on the PC side.  You'll need Cygwin if you're
running NT or 95.  I've got a hacked version that generates native
executables (unoptimized, but still faster than the interpreter)
using the Cygwin tools.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JArchibald at aol.com [mailto:JArchibald at aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:31 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: BCPL Needs => Free C and ASM
> 
> 
> All--
> 
> Can anyone recommend free C and Asm resources for either Mac 
> or Windows 
> platforms. I downloaded the BCPL material, and it looks like 
> it will require 
> some grunge work to get it going [one of those times when I 
> wish I had a 
> Linux system up -- next week -- LOL ].
> 
> It was a delight to see a site (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/) 
> well laid out, 
> which is what I would expect from Martin. He was on a 
> sabbatical at IBM 
> Research in the early '70s, and I succeeded him in being the 
> 'keeper of the 
> keys' for his port of BCPL to VM/CMS. He had left everything 
> in perfect order 
> for me to take over. I continued to use this BCPL until I 
> left IBM in 1993 
> (20 years, pretty good record for durability). 
> 
> I build a theorem prover (for Effigy [symbolic execution] 
> headed by Jim King) 
> in a personally modified BCPL. BCPL was written in BCPL, 
> still a somewhat 
> novel concept at the time [though the Fortran H was the 
> originator (I had 
> worked on that {I/O packages in S/360 assembler language} in 
> 1965)]. It did 
> have a primitive package (jeez, I wonder where that came from 
> ... ) written 
> in assembler, which is what Martin had ported.
> 
> Any pointers will be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jerry.
> ____________________________
> 
> Jerry L. Archibald
> systemObjectivesIncorporated
> ____________________________
> 
> "I can't think of the author." Anon.
>