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What compilers (assemblers) are there?

Assembler

All C-compilers have an Assembler included. Freely distributable are A68K and PhxAss (directory `dev/asm' on Aminet or Fish disks 521 and 906)

C

C++

Freely distributable C-compilers are gcc (which has its own directory `dev/gcc' on Aminet) and the evaluation version of Dice (for example per FTP from ftp.uni-paderborn.de, directory `/news/comp.binaries.amiga/volume91/languages' or on Fish disk 491). The advantage of gcc is that you find gcc versions all over the world and on all computer systems. Another advantage is that C++ is included into gcc! But it is slow and needs 4Mb of RAM or more. See section The GNU C compiler: general information and installation. See section Discussing things.

Commercial C compilers are Aztec-C, Dice and SAS/C. I cannot recommend Aztec-C, because the compiler doesn't seem to get further development. It should be remarked that the commercial compilers have especially wonderful debugging utilities (Source level debuggers!) that the others are missing. SAS/C has a crosscompiler included, which translates C++ to C and supports the source level debugger too. Dice is the cheapest and fastest commercial compiler, but SAS offers a students discount and updates for owners of other compilers which isn't very expensive too. To get information about DICE, send email to info@oic.COM. An automatic system will return complete details, including upgrade prices.

Comeau C++ is a crosscompiler like SAS/C++. That wouldn't be a problem, but Comeau C++ doesn't have a C compiler included. You need SAS/C, Aztec-C or Dice additionally. But it is AT&T cfront 3.0 compliant and supports exceptions. And like gcc it runs on many platforms. Maxxon C++ is offered in Germany. I cannot say anything on it. Both compilers are commercial. Comeau's address is:

    Comeau computing
    91-34, 120th Street
    Richmond Hill, NY, 11418-3214
    USA

    EMail: Greg Comeau, comeau@bix.com

Forth

JForth is said to be an excellent Amiga port of Forth. Among its advantages are object oriented extensions, full Amiga interface and an application generator. It is available from:

    Delta Research
    P.O. Box 151051
    San Rafael, CA   94915-1051

    Phone: (415) 453-4320
    EMail: Phil Burk, phil@ntg.com
           Mike Haas, haas@starnine.com

Fortran

(Sigh! Still people who need it :-<) Freely distributable are BCF (Fish disk 470) and f2c, a Fortran to C converter (Aminet, directory `/dev/misc'). A commercial compiler is offered from ABSoft. All these are Fortran 77 compilers, I don't know any Fortran 90 compiler on the Amiga.

Lisp

Freely distributable Lisp interpreters are XLisp (Fish disk 181) and OakLisp (Fish disks 519 and 520) and CLISP (`/pub/lisp/clisp/binaries/amiga' at the server `ftp ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de'). Lisp compilers are Gambit (Fish 764 and 765) and Scheme-to-C (Fish disks 556, 557 and 558). See section Discussing things.

Prolog

`/dev/lang/UNSWProlog.lha' and `dev/lang/sbp3_1e.lha' on Aminet as well as `SBProlog' on Fish disk 141 and `SBProlog' on Fish disk 145 are freely distributable Prolog interpreters.

Modula-2

M2Amiga is offered in Europe, Benchmark Modula-2 in the U.S. Both are said to be very good, have a powerful source-level-debugger, a large library. Especially M2Amiga has great support by a german user-group (AMOK) which for example offers own PD disks. See section Discussing things.

M2Amiga is offered by:

    A+L AG
    Daderiz 61
    2540 Grenchen
    Schweiz

    Tel.: +41/65/52 03-11
    Fax:              -79

Benchmark Modula-2 is available from:

    Armadillo Computing
    5225 Marymount Drive
    Austin, Texas 78723
    USA

    Phone/FAX: 512/926-0360.
    EMail: Jim Olinger, jolinger@bix.com

Oberon

Oberon-2

Two compilers (both Oberon-2) are available: AmigaOberon (commercial) is offered by the same company as M2Amiga. It is integrated into a full developers environment and has a large library of modules. Library linker and source level debugger are available.

Oberon-A is a Freeware compiler. (Source: Aminet, `dev/obero' directory) However, this is a beta release, especially the module library is limited. See section Discussing things.

The AMOK user group supports AmiOberon as well as M2Amiga.

Pascal

There is a PD-compiler called PCQ (Directory `dev/lang' on Aminet or Fish disk 511). It doesn't support all of Pascal and major features are missing. P2C, a pascal to C converter is on disk 341. (Aminet: `/dev/misc/p2c120.lha') Additionally there are two commercial compilers called HiSoft Pascal and KickPascal. HiSoft Pascal and P2C claim to be compatible to Turbo Pascal up to 5.0. HiSoft has a source level debugger included.

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