Re: Delphi to bytecode compiler

From: Andy (gmlvsk2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:56:12 GMT

Hi,
I wanted to do the same for my own language and wrote a library (still
working on it)
 in C that allows to read/write Java bytecode
You can find out more at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/myfriend/
You could also check out the whole project
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/myfriend co
myfriend/friend2java

"Jonathan Neve" <jonathan@microtec.fr> wrote in message
news:bda9ed85.0408270146.13adfd56@posting.google.com...
> Hi all!
>
> 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?
>
> The reason I think this would be useful, is that it would broaden the
> scope of the Java platform, enabling many languages to be used (just
> like .NET). There are already several langages (e.g. Java, Jython,
> Groovy, and perhaps others), but it would be nice to have a language as
> close as possible to Delphi syntax that could likewise compile into
> bytecode. This would greatly facilitate converting projects from Delphi
> to Java.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Joanthan Neve.

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