Thank you, Saj, for your research into the issue. I'll take a look at figuring out how to use it directly prior to figuring out how to fix the port (that, to me, is a daunting concept).
Thanks, Ken Wolcott On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM Saj Goonatilleke <s...@redu.cx> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, at 09:24, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > I was curious about the port of the Modula-3 language... > > > > port search cm3 > > cm3 @5.2.6_1 (lang) > > Critical Mass Modula-3 Compiler > > read the port: > port cat cm3 > > # M3 requires a bootstrap compiler to build > # This port currently supports only Darwin/PPC > > I don't think that port going to work on a contemporary Mac any more. > https://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/releng/#targets > The missing system.tgz file is the platform-specific bit that is not > available for x86_64 (amd64) nor arm64. > > Upstream development appears to have moved to GitHub. Newer releases are > available here. > https://github.com/modula3/cm3/releases/tag/d5.11.4 > https://github.com/modula3/cm3/wiki/Getting-Started:-macOS > > > This release introduces a new installer that supports a simple, > source-based distribution containing a bootstrap compiler in C++. > > I think this could be made to work now that the bootstrap compiler may > itself be built from source. > > There is no port maintainer for cm3 so you will probably need to fix this > yourself. :) >
