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Vishap Oberon
ⱱishap Oberon Compiler (voc) is a free (GPLv3) professional oberon-2 compiler.
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Licensing
Vishap Oberon's frontend and C backend engine is a fork of Josef Templ’s Ofront, which has been released under the FreeBSD License. Unlike Ofront, Vishap Oberon does not include the Oberon v4 environment.
The Ulm Oberon Library and the Ooc libraries are distributed under GPL. Proprietry code using these libraries may not be statically linked.
Voc tools are distributed under GPLv3.
Most of the runtime in libVishapOberon is distributed under GPLv3 with runtime exception.
Platform support
Vishap Oberon supports 32 and 64 bit little-endian architectures including Intel x86 and x64, arm and ppc.
It compiles under gcc, clang and Microsoft Visual C.
Installation supports GNU/Linux, MAC OSX, BSD and Windows (native and cygwin).
Language support
Vishap Oberon supports the Oberon 2 programming language, including type-bound procedures.
It can also compile programs written to the Oberon07 report.
Libraries
Vishap Oberon comes with libraries easing the porting of code from the major Oberon systems:
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Oberon V4 and S3 compatible library set.
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ooc (optimizing oberon-2 compiler) library port.
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Ulm’s Oberon system library port.
Some other freely redistributable libraries are available as a part of voc distribution.
Features
See Features.
Installation
See Installation.
Compiling Oberon modules
See Compiling.
Porting to new platforms
See Porting.
History
See History.
Roadmap
See Roadmap.
Contributors
Originally developed as a cross platform implementation of the Oberon system by Joseph Templ.
Updated for 64 bit support, refactored as a standalone compiler and brought to new platforms by Norayr Chilingarian.
Build process simplified for more platform support and bugs fixed by David C W Brown.
Origin of the name Vishap
To be left out?
Work on other compatibility layers is in progress. voc team also works on bindings to existing C/Pascal libraries.