Compiled SLIB support

[Tony Sidaway]

I'm working on strategies for integrating SLIB release 3b2 into Chicken as a small series of eggs each containing a number of compiled SLIB modules packaged as Chicken modules. As far as possible, existing Chicken code that provides SLIB features will be relied on.

Work to date comprises a SLIB module analyzer that packages a SLIB source module as a Chicken module and translates dependencies such as (require 'FEATURE), (require-if 'compiling 'FEATURE) to the equivalent Chicken require-extension, import and so on. When compiled, the modules work well with Chicken 4 and each other.

Much work still needs to be done particularly in integrating the various SLIB macro systems with compiled code.

Present thinking is that SLIB's catalog system will *not* be supported as, with proper treatment, it's made redundant by the egg system which is one of Chicken's greatest assets.

[felix winkelmann]

Replying to tonysidaway:

I'm working on strategies for integrating SLIB release 3b2 into Chicken as a small series of eggs each containing a number of compiled SLIB modules packaged as Chicken modules. As far as possible, existing Chicken code that provides SLIB features will be relied on.

A big task for sure. But SLIB contains a lot of good code.

Work to date comprises a SLIB module analyzer that packages a SLIB source module as a Chicken module and translates dependencies such as (require 'FEATURE), (require-if 'compiling 'FEATURE) to the equivalent Chicken require-extension, import and so on. When compiled, the modules work well with Chicken 4 and each other.

Clever, but in various failed attempts at integrating SLIB I came to the conclusion that it's a mess and not suited for batch-compiling Schemes. But scavenging what's useful is a good idea.

Much work still needs to be done particularly in integrating the various SLIB macro systems with compiled code.

I'll suggest to ignore those.

Present thinking is that SLIB's catalog system will *not* be supported as, with proper treatment, it's made redundant by the egg system which is one of Chicken's greatest assets.

I fully agree.

[Tony Sidaway]

I'm currently looking at portability issues in general.

[felix winkelmann]

Are you still working on this? Otherwise we should close the ticket.

[felix winkelmann]

silence.