50 lines
1.4 KiB
Org Mode
50 lines
1.4 KiB
Org Mode
-*- org -*-
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Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
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Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. The
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target is to [have GuixSD] boostrap from a minimal, easily inspectable
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binary --that should be readable as source-- into something close to
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R6RS Scheme.
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As bootstrapping is presumably easiest and probably most fun with
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Scheme, the next step for Mes is mescc: a C compiler/linker to
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boostrap into GNU Gcc and GNU Guile, possibly via Tiny-CC.
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It currently has an interpreter written in C (mes) with Garbage
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Collector (Jam Scraper), a library of loadable Scheme modules with
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test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and
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a proof-of-concept c-compiler (mescc.mes) that produces an elf from
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the simplest of C files.
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Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
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McCarthy page 13.
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Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
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General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
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* Get it
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git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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* Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
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./configure
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make all
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make check
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* REPL it
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scripts/repl.mes
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* Mescc compiler
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scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c > a.out
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* Other
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make check
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make guile-check
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make mes-check
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make paren
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make mescc
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