Conference hydra::amiga_v1

4853.0. "Modula-2 hard disk install help?" by ANGLIN::GAINES () Tue Jun 25 1991 11:21

	I'm having trouble getting Modula-2 installed on my hard drive
	DH0. I copied all the files to the appripiate directories and
	made the assignmnts according to the manual.

	Modual-2 will boot, and the compiler loads. It will not compile
	the hello.mod demo program provided with the software once installed
	on my hard drive.

	It works fine if I boot it via the floppy boot disk. I can compile
	the hello.mod program and run it ok. Only, since the boot floppy is
	so full, I can't get the findimages form the iff disk to copy on
	the boot floppy. I need this file here to compile another demo
	program GWARS. So I said no problem, I'll just copy the boot disk
	and make the proper assignments as per the manual and shazam!

	Instead after I get the boot disk copied to the hard drive this 
	is what I see.

	I type M2 from the CLI. M2 comes up and the compiler gets loaded.
	I get a message that amigados.obm file not found. There are some
	files that get copied to the ram disk and this is one of them.
	You get bookoo compile errors if everything does not come up
	correctly. I look at the directory of the hard disk and the
	boot floppy disk, there is no such file Amigados.obm. However
	if I boot the bootable floppy disk, and then perform a directory
	search there is a file called amigados.sbm, and the missing
	amigados.obm. There are also numerous other files that don't show
	up until the boot disk has been booted with the extension of .OBM.
	What gives here? What do I have to do to get this thing set up 
	right on my hard drive. I believe I have the following assignments.
	
	first the manual tells you to copy files to appropiate directories.
	Then the suggested assignments.

	assign m2: dh0:m2
	assign t: ram:t
	stack 15000
	ismem512
	if warn 
	copy dh0:amigadis.obm ram: (Something like this)
	etc .sbm
	etc.obm  

	MAG
	

I'll have a look tonight and post something tomorrow. I've got
Benchmark installed on my 590.

Mike

    Thanks Mike, Ill look for your reply tonight.
    MAG

Hi,

what I have is the following :-

	assign modula2: bigdisk:modula2/
	assign m2_libs: bigdisk:modula2/libs/

	makedir ram:m2l
	m2libs:qload m2libs:m2lib ram:m2l/
	m2libs:qload m2libs:msimp ram:m2l/
	assign m2l:  ram:m2l

By way of explantion :-

bigdisk is one on the partitions on the 590. As I recall the modula-2
compiler is looking for the various library files in the m2l location,
hence the final m2l assignment. The loading of the files into RAM: is
as per the suggestions in the modula2 documentation. I supose you could 
compile directly from the hard drive assuming you have all of the library
files unpacked and the resultant files in a directory pointed to via
the m2l assingment.

Happy compiling.
	Mike

I have m2l: pointing to my hard disk, so yes, this works fine.
	assign m2l: m2libs:m2lib
It's a hold-over from when I was running a basic 1-meg '2000, It doesn't
seem to slow things down too much, so I never bothered to change it.
Btw, has Benchmark M2 had any new versions? My impression is that it's
been very solid and there haven't been any new releases in the last
couple of years.

Verell

The only info I have ever received from the Compiler people
was a flyer for the Source Level Debugger. So I assume
no new compilers etc.

Mike

Same here.  I was wondering if they were doing a AmigaDOS 2.0 release?

David