CSL executable for Windows, 1995 vintage. Or Jens Klöumlcker?

CSL executable for Windows, 1995 vintage. Or Jens Klöumlcker?

[Ian S. Worthington]

Hi --

I recently came across a syntax generator program called SYNGEN, written in
1995 by Jens Klöumlcker.  

My attempts to email Jens at the two addresses I've found for him have
bounced, so I'm wondering if someone here might be able to help me.

SYNGEN is written in Caml Special Light.  Trying to run the bytecode and
source on the latest version of OCMAL doesn't work.  As I've no experience
with the language I'm not sure I could get them working in short order.

I've been able to track down a version of the source for CSL in the obsolete
folder of the inria ftp site, but the promised Windows executable is not
there.

Before I launch into the task of trying to compile a 15 year old program using
modern C compilers, which I suspect isn't going to be straightforward, I
thought I'd ask here if anyone knows where I might find a prebuilt binary of
CSL (CSLRUN etc?) for Windows.

Or are the differences between CSL and OCAML so slight that someone with no
experience should be able to get it working quickly?

Thanks,


ian 
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Re: [Caml-list] CSL executable for Windows, 1995 vintage. Or Jens Klöumlcker?

[Stéphane Glondu]

Ian S. Worthington a écrit :
> Or are the differences between CSL and OCAML so slight that someone with no
> experience should be able to get it working quickly?

IMHO, there might be differences (mostly syntactical or stdlib-related),
but the translation should be straightforward nonetheless. I'd rather
convert the program from CSL to OCaml than adapt CSL for a "modern C
compiler" if it doesn't work out of the box.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane

Re: [Caml-list] CSL executable for Windows, 1995 vintage. Or Jens Klöumlcker?

[Adrien]

The differences are small.
You should read "The big picture" [1]. An automatic converter is
mentionned (and still accessible) at the bottom of the page.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/ocaml/bigpicture.html

Hope this helps


 ---

Adrien Nader

On 12/04/2009, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:
> Ian S. Worthington a écrit :
>> Or are the differences between CSL and OCAML so slight that someone with
>> no
>> experience should be able to get it working quickly?
>
> IMHO, there might be differences (mostly syntactical or stdlib-related),
> but the translation should be straightforward nonetheless. I'd rather
> convert the program from CSL to OCaml than adapt CSL for a "modern C
> compiler" if it doesn't work out of the box.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
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Re: [Caml-list] CSL executable for Windows, 1995 vintage. Or Jens Klöumlcker?

[blue storm]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:
> Ian S. Worthington a écrit :
>> Or are the differences between CSL and OCAML so slight that someone with no
>> experience should be able to get it working quickly?
>
> IMHO, there might be differences (mostly syntactical or stdlib-related),
> but the translation should be straightforward nonetheless. I'd rather
> convert the program from CSL to OCaml than adapt CSL for a "modern C
> compiler" if it doesn't work out of the box.

I just had a look, and that's a 5-lines-change story.
Here is the diff needed to make it compile with ocaml (3.10) :
bluestorm.info/tmp/syngen/syngen.diff

An example file (from the manual) and the given output (wich I didn't
checked for corectness) :
http://bluestorm.info/tmp/syngen/test.ara
http://bluestorm.info/tmp/syngen/test.syn