Subject: GNU Mes 0.17 released [alpha] <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.17, representing 55 commits over 5 weeks. Mes is now an official GNU package and we have bootstrapped gcc-4.7.4 for x86-linux with a reduced binary seed (i.e., without regular toolchain). Next targets: - upstream the x86 Mes bootstrap to GuixSD - create a x86_64 Mes C Lib, see if that is is enough to bootstrap x86_64 - reduce the 1MB ASCII M1 seed to ~5000 LOC/~100KB of M2 source - create a plan for Geesh and Gash and use them to reduce the bootstrap binary dependencies - and/or otherwise reduce the bootstrap binary dependencies Packages are available from Guix's wip-bootstrap branch. * About GNU Mes[0] aims to help create full source bootstrapping for GNU/Linux distributions such as GuixSD[1] as part of the bootstrappable builds[2] effort. It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in ~5,000 LOC of simple C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme. This mes.c is being simplified[3] to be transpiled by M2-Planet[4]. The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's LALR[5], Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[6] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's Nyacc[7] --and test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL and simple C-compiler: MesCC. Mes+MesCC can compile an only lightly patched TinyCC[8] that is self-hosting. Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a reduced-binary-seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4. Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[9] -- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and Jeremiah Orians's stage0[10] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler. * Download git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.17.tar.gz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/mes/mes-0.17.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 5e571c2f5ddaefbfe3dd618d69c40038 mes-0.17.tar.gz 1fbebe64ab330aec4c7ffbca88ea04b7be17458d mes-0.17.tar.gz [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify mes-0.17.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1A858392E331EAFDB8C27FFBF3C1A0D9C1D65273 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and installed in Guix[SD] from a git checkout by running guix package -f .guix.scm * Get informed, get involved Join #bootstrappable on irc.freenode.net. * Changes in 0.17 since 0.16.1 ** Core *** GNU Mes is now an official GNU package. *** MesCC is now installed as a regular Guile package. *** Support --srcdir build. *** Support all standard GNU make targets. ** MesCC *** Mes C Lib now bootstraps glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-4.7.4. * Changes in 0.16.1 since 0.16 ** Core *** Mes now builds out of the box on Debian buster/testing. *** Mes now comes with a generic build recipe: build-aux/setup-mes.sh. *** Mes now comes with INFO documentation. ** MesCC *** MesCC now exits if spawning BLOOD_ELF, M1, or HEX2 fails. Greetings, janneke [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mes [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix [2] http://bootstrappable.org [3] https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2 [4] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet [5] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm [6] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html [7] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc [9] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf [10] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0