Ofront is an Oberon-2 to C translator written in Oberon-2. It supports both ANSI and K&R style C and supports cross translation to arbitrary target platforms. Ofront includes a runtime system including an automatic garbage collector for Linux, the Oberon V4 system, and a set of command-line tools.
Download Ofront 1.4 for Linux/i386 or Raspbian from
https://www.software-templ.com/shareware.html.
The Ofront tools are self hosting meaning you need a working version to recompile them. The compiled versions provided at software-templ.com are comprised of
oberon : A V4 Oberon environment for Linux and X11
ocat : A program that will read a V4 formatted Text file and write it as plain text to standard out
ocl
: The Ofront compiler which wraps Ofront, and your system C compiler
and linker to produce compiled programs and shared libraries.
ofront : Ofront translate Oberon-2 into C for compilation with your system's C compiler.
showdef : This will read a symbol file and display a human readable description
NOTE: See INSTALL for details on installing Ofront 1.4 and compiling Ofront from scratch.
The directory structure of the project ofront is as follows:
fonts
A set of bitmap fonts for the Oberon system. This directory is not required for building ofront.
man1
A set of section 1 manual pages. This directory is not required for building ofront.
V4
A set of example modules and resource files for the original Oberon V4 system. This directory is not required for building ofront.
V4_ofront
The files that are required for building ofront.
V4_ofront/share
A set of source files not specific for any particular ofront version.
V4_ofront/linux386
The set of files specifically adapted for the linux-386 version of ofront. This includes adapted low level modules as well as the 'makefile' and the parameter file 'Ofront.par'.
V4_ofront/raspbian
The set of files specifically adapted for the raspbian version of ofront. This includes adapted low level modules as well as the 'makefile' and the parameter file 'Ofront.par'. This version is in many aspects similar to linux386. One difference is the added module WiringPi, which provides an interface to the popular libwiringPi.so for the Raspberry Pi.
Joseph Templ released Ofront under a FreeBSD style license in 2012. See LICENSE for details.