MMB4L: MMBasic for Linux alpha release

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thwill

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Posted: 05:13pm 23 Sep 2021      

Hi folks,

Well alpha 1 is ready and available for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi (armv7l):

   https://github.com/thwill1000/MMB4L

I imagine there may be some teething troubles whilst we get the correct distributions built and installed.

I'd appreciate it if you would let me know how you get on, please keep all MMB4L correspondence to this thread.

EDIT: I can't promise to be as responsive as Peter is though.

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2021-09-24 03:33 by thwill
lizby
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Posted: 06:18pm 23 Sep 2021      

Excellent. Any hope for Armv6 as on the zero and zero-w or should what you put on github work?
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Posted: 07:14pm 23 Sep 2021      

  lizby said  Excellent. Any hope for Armv6 as on the zero and zero-w or should what you put on github work?


Hi @lizby,

I'm not certain, but I think the 'armv7l' build "may just work" (TM), as when I was looking at the #defines the compiler was setting they all seemed to be ARM 6 rather than ARM 7 . Anyway would you mind giving it a go, and if it doesn't work then I'll dust off (literally) a Pi zero over the weekend and build a specific version for that.

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2021-09-24 05:36 by thwill
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Posted: 07:36pm 23 Sep 2021      

Hi Tom,

Will it run on any 64 bit linux that has nano editor available ? Or is this specific *BUNTU for the moment ? All my machines are 32 bit linux, and I could try to boot a live distro to test this out (some of the CPU's have 64bit , but I installed 32 bit to stay common over all machines).

Thanks for the answer...

Volhout
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Posted: 07:37pm 23 Sep 2021      

  thwill said  Hi folks,

Well alpha 1 is ready and available for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi (armv7l):

   https://github.com/thwill1000/MMB4L

I imagine there may be some teething troubles whilst we get the correct distributions built and installed.

I'd appreciate it if you would let me know how you get on, please keep all MMB4L correspondence to this thread.

EDIT: I can't promise to be as responsive as Peter is though.

Best wishes,

Tom


Very nice! Is there a way to return to the Bash prompt? I didn't see one in the README.
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Posted: 07:40pm 23 Sep 2021      

  Volhout said  Will it run on any 64 bit linux that has nano editor available ? Or is this specific *BUNTU for the moment ? All my machines are 32 bit linux, and I could try to boot a live distro to test this out (some of the CPU's have 64bit , but I installed 32 bit to stay common over all machines).


Hi @Volhout,

I'm not 100% certain but I don't think the build is Ubuntu/Debian specific. I guess there might be an issue if the Linux distribution has too old a C runtime but I believe Linux is pretty resilient to that sort of thing (more so than Windoze).

I guess I will be dusting off my old 32-bit DELL Lubuntu laptop over the weekend too then .

You've got a Chromebook too haven't you, are you running Crostini, in which case what does "uname -a" have to say for itself.

Best wishes,

Tom
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Posted: 07:41pm 23 Sep 2021      

  toml_12953 said  Very nice! Is there a way to return to the Bash prompt? I didn't see one in the README.


3rd bullet-point in "How do I run it?" - type QUIT.

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Tom
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Posted: 07:53pm 23 Sep 2021      

  thwill said  I'm not 100% certain but I don't think the build is Ubuntu/Debian specific. I guess there might be an issue if the Linux distribution has too old a C runtime but I believe Linux is pretty resilient to that sort of thing (more so than Windoze).


As a data-point the x86_64 build doesn't run on CentOS 7 (but looks like it would on CentOS 8) because it needs GLIBC_2.29.

Best wishes,

Tom
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Posted: 07:58pm 23 Sep 2021      

Hi Tom,

I will try tomorrow on a newer live distro.

The one 64bit machine I have throws an error:

mmbasic: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by mmbasic)


Guess this machine is too old... (Xubuntu 18:04)

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Posted: 08:19pm 23 Sep 2021      

I have uploaded an x86_64 build with a lower requirement (GLIBC_2.14):

   https://github.com/thwill1000/MMB4L/blob/main/binaries/mmb4l-2021.01.00-a1-x86_64-glibc-2.14.tgz

GLIBC's are supposedly backward compatible.

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2021-09-24 06:20 by thwill
lizby
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Posted: 08:37pm 23 Sep 2021      

Looking good on a Pi-ZW:

Linux armv7l MMBasic Ver 2021.01.00-a1
Copyright 2011-2021 Geoff Graham
Copyright 2021 Thomas Hugo Williams

> print "Hello, Pi"
Hello, Pi
> system "cat /proc/cpuinfo > /home/pi/info"
> open "/home/pi/info" for input as #1
> do while not eof(#1): line input #1,a$: ?a$: loop
processor   : 0
model name  : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS    : 697.95
Features    : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part    : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware    : BCM2835
Revision    : 9000c1
Serial      : 000000005b3346ed
>
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Posted: 11:18pm 23 Sep 2021      

This is a kludge pending incorporation of pin I/O into the firmware (if that happens), but here is

Digital output to pins on a Pi Zero W with MMB4L:

Youtube: LEDs on and off

' PiIO.bas performs digital I/O with linux4MMB
'
dim integer i,j,k,p(16)=(0,26,19,13,6,5,0,11,9,10,17,22,27,12,16,20,21)
dim integer pState(16)
dim integer q(4)=(0,14,15,18,23), dout=1, din=0

for i=1 to 16
 setpin p(i),dout
next
for i=1 to 4
 setpin p(i),din
next

i=1
do
 pState(i)=1-pState(i) ' toggle state
 cmd$="sudo echo '"+str$(pState(i))+"' > /sys/class/gpio/gpio"+str$(p(i))+"/value"
'  print cmd$
 system(cmd$)
 inc i: if i > 16 then i=1
 pause 500
loop

sub setpin(pinno as integer, pinmode as integer)
 local string dirname$, cmd$
 dirname$="/sys/class/gpio/gpio"+str$(pinno)
 if not MM.INFO(EXISTS DIR dirname$) then
   cmd$="sudo echo '"+str$(pinno)+"' > /sys/class/gpio/export 2>/dev/null"
'    print cmd$
   system cmd$
 endif
 if pinmode then
   cmd$="sudo echo 'out' > "+dirname$
 else
   cmd$="sudo echo 'in' > "+dirname$
 endif
end sub


A minor point: artifacts in screen when up-arrow to re-run command (but very happy to have that feature):

> edit
run
> redit
ererun                                                                        
> redit
erun                                                                          


This uses BigMik's freeware 2x20 breakout Proto Board.

Congratulations, Thwill. Nice work. I look forward to exploring.
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Posted: 11:21pm 23 Sep 2021      

> list commands
Call               Case               Case Else          Cat
Chdir              Clear              Close              Cls
Console            Const              Continue           Copy
CSub               Cursor             Data               Dim
Do                 Edit               Else               Else If
ElseIf             End                End CSub           End Function
End If             End Select         End Sub            EndIf
Erase              Error              Execute            Exit
Exit Do            Exit For           Exit Function      Exit Sub
Files              For                Function           GoSub
GoTo               If                 Inc                Input
IReturn            Kill               Let                Line Input
List               Load               Local              LongString
Loop               Ls                 Math               Memory
Mkdir              New                Next               On
Open               Option             Pause              Poke
Print              Quit               Randomize          Read
Rem                Rename             Restore            Return
Rmdir              Run                Seek               Select Case
SetTitle           Sort               Static             Sub
System             Timer              Trace              TrOff
TrOn               Wend               While
Total of 87 commands using 87 slots

> list functions
*                  +                  -                  /
<                  <<                 <=                 <>
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Asc(               ASin(              Atn(               Bin$(
Bound(             Call(              Choice(            Chr$(
Cint(              Cos(               Cwd$               Date$
Deg(               Dir$(              Else               Eof(
Eval(              Exp(               Field$(            Fix(
For                Format$(           GoSub              GoTo
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Int(               Inv                LCase$(            LCompare(
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LInStr(            LLen(              Loc(               Lof(
Log(               Math(              Max(               Mid$(
Min(               MM.CmdLine$        MM.Device$         MM.ErrMsg$
MM.Errno           MM.HRes            MM.Info(           MM.Ver
MM.VRes            Mod                Not                Oct$(
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Until              Val(               While              Xor
Total of 104 functions using 104 slots
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Posted: 05:19am 24 Sep 2021      

Loaded into Mint 20.2 and working.

Have nano working (v4.8) and can edit/save etc. but am a little confused with the instructions on using nano?

Great job Tom, looking forward to following developments.

   
Doug.
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Posted: 08:04am 24 Sep 2021      

  panky said  
Have nano working (v4.8) and can edit/save etc. but am a little confused with the instructions on using nano?

MAN NANO
or (if you want more readable info:
https://www.nano-editor.org/docs.php

Jim
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Posted: 08:29am 24 Sep 2021      

  thwill said  Hi folks,

Well alpha 1 is ready and available for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi (armv7l):



If OPTION CASE functional (x86_64)? It doesn't seem to do anything when I set it to Upper.
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Posted: 08:35am 24 Sep 2021      

  thwill said  Hi folks,

Well alpha 1 is ready and available for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi (armv7l):



In the editor, My F1 and F2 seem to be reversed from the README. My F2 saves the file and F1 exits the editor.
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Posted: 08:43am 24 Sep 2021      

  toml_12953 said  Is OPTION CASE functional (x86_64)? It doesn't seem to do anything when I set it to Upper.


It's functional, it's just not useful .

My understanding is that on the other 'mites (except CMM2) the current program is always stored (in the flash) in the tokenized form and this option controls how it is converted back into ASCII when the user EDITs or LISTs it.

MMB4L and the CMM2 work differently in that they always EDIT and LIST the disk file, not the program stored in "flash".

If you want to see what is in the "flash" type LIST FLASH and the keywords displayed will respect OPTION CASE. However note that irrespective of OPTION CASE all the variable names will be in upper-case, I don't think this happens with the other 'mites, it is probably an optimisation by Peter that MMB4L has inherited from the CMM2 code.

In the future my intention is to throw away the somewhat adhoc preprocessor inherited from the CMM2 and replace it with one based on my own SPTools preprocessor. This will allow me to add proper pretty-printing / re-formatting to the language.

Best wishes,

Tom
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Posted: 08:45am 24 Sep 2021      

  toml_12953 said  In the editor, My F1 and F2 seem to be reversed from the README. My F2 saves the file and F1 exits the editor.


Right, I changed my mind a number of times about which should be which.

Should I correct the nano resource file? or should I correct the README ?

You can of course edit the nanorc file to personalise it for yourself.

Best wishes,

Tom
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Posted: 08:53am 24 Sep 2021      

  lizby said  Digital output to pins on a Pi Zero W with MMB4L.


Impressive, I'll have to find time to give that a go.

  lizby said  This is a kludge pending incorporation of pin I/O into the firmware (if that happens ...


It is my intention (at @robert.rozee's suggestion) to look into doing this with the pigpio library when I find some more time; I need to take a bit of a break now as I've been neglecting other things to get MMB4L out there. This is I believe a higher-level approach to what Peter did with the PiCRomite so may perhaps not run into the same issues. When I come to it I may need some hand-holding on the hardware/electronics side.

  lizby said  
> edit
run
> redit
ererun                                                                        
> redit
erun


I can't reproduce that on my Ubuntu build, what is the program that you are running ? It may perhaps be "messing" with the interpreter's concept of the current character position.

Best wishes,

Tom
Edited 2021-09-24 20:11 by thwill