Re: Delphi to bytecode compiler

From: Chris Uppal (chris.uppal_at_metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:47:55 +0100

    Jonathan Neve wrote:

    > I'm wondering what would be involved in making a Delphi to bytecode
    > compiler... Does anyone have any experience writing compilers, that
    > could give me some advice?

    An ambitious project.

    You might want to look for the book:

        Programming for the Java Virtual Machine
        Joshua Engel

    which talks quite a lot about compiling non-Java to run on the JVM.

    It might be that the book

        Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR)
        John Gough

    would be even better in some ways. It largely focuses on running Component
    Pascal on the CLR, and although the CRL is not the same as the JVM, there are
    many similarities. The same implementation (gpcp) is also able to generate
    Java bytecodes, so the author is JVM-aware and occasionally mentions JVM issues
    in the book. The implementation is on the Web somewhere (you can Google for
    "Component Pascal" and "gpcp" as easily as I) so you may be able to find
    material about the JVM implementation if you look around a bit.

        -- chris

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