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#+COMMENT: -*- org -*- #+TITLE: About GNU Mes #+SUBTITLE: Maxwell Equations of Software [[https://www.gnu.org/software/mes][GNU Mes]] brings a [[http://joyofsource.com/reduced-binary-seed-bootstrap.html][Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap]] to [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix][GuixSD]] and potentially to any other interested GNU/Linux distribution, and aims to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the [[http://bootstrappable.org][bootstrappable builds]] 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 [[https://github.com/oriansj/mes-m2][being simplified]] to be transpiled by [[https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet][M2-Planet]]. The Scheme interpreter (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector, a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's [[https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm][LALR]], Pre-R6RS [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html][portable syntax-case]] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt Wette's [[https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc][Nyacc]] --and test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL and simple C-compiler: MesCC. Mes+MesCC can compile an only [[http://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc][lightly patched TinyCC]] 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-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap GuixSD for i686-linux and x86_64-linux. Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and Jeremiah Orians's [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler. GNU Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file [[file:COPYING][COPYING]]. * Get it #+BEGIN_SRC bash git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mes.git #+END_SRC * Build it (see [[file:INSTALL][INSTALL]] for full instructions) #+BEGIN_SRC bash ./configure make all make check #+END_SRC * REPL it #+BEGIN_SRC bash src/mes.gcc-out # default (64 bit) gcc-compiled src/mes.mes-gcc-out # 32 bit, gcc -nostdlib, Mes C Lib src/mes.mes-out # 32 bit, bootstrapped, mes.M1+MesCC-compiled src/mes.x86_64-mes-gcc-out # 64 bit, gcc -nostdlib, Mes C Lib src/mes.x86_64-mes-out # 64 bit, bootstrapped, mes.M1+MesCC-compiled #+END_SRC * MesCC compiler #+BEGIN_SRC bash ./pre-inst env mescc -c scaffold/main.c #+END_SRC * Bugs Please send Mes bug reports to [[mailto:bug-mes@gnu.org][bug-mes@gnu.org]]. * Links [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] http://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc [9] [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf]] [10] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 * Legalese Copyright © 2016,2017,2018 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <[[mailto:janneke@gnu.org][janneke@gnu.org]]> Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.