Re: gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]

Re: emscripten version of ECL:

You can attempt to build it yourself:

https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/tree/emscripten

-----Original Message-----
From: Marius Gerbershagen <[email protected]>
Sent: Jan 14, 2023 9:39 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]

It's perhaps worth noting that ECL can be made to run in this way in a browser and will officially support WASM in the next release (https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/merge_requests/277).


Am 14.01.23 um 18:27 schrieb Oscar Benjamin:
> I don't know GCL or Lisp at all really but according to wikipedia GCL
> "produces native object code by first generating C code and then
> calling a C compiler". If that's correct then in combination with a C
> compiler that generates WASM it should be possible for GCL to compile
> e.g. Maxima to WASM. Then it would be possible to run Maxima in the
> browser with no local install needed.
> > --
> Oscar
> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 16:24, Camm Maguire wrote:
>>
>> Greetings, and thanks as always for your feedback!
>>
>> Not sure I understand the intent of the question, nor am I familiar with
>> WASM. From what I can tell, GCL and WASM are alternative approaches to
>> hosting a lisp programming environment, the former via native machine
>> code, and the latter by cross-platform web scripting commands. If
>> correct, one would never want to run GCL 'under' WASM.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Henry Baker writes:
>>
>>> Hi Camm:
>>>
>>> Dumb question:
>>>
>>> Has anyone gotten GCL to run within WASM yet?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Camm Maguire
>>> Sent: Jan 12, 2023 11:07 AM
>>> To: Jerry James ,
>>> Cc: ,
>>> Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]
>>>
>>> Greetings! Just to report that this has now been resolved, and the
>>> release tarball can now be retrieved from the official gnu site.
>>>
>>> That said, a cleanup 2.6.14 release is forthcoming shortly, with the
>>> principal goal of supporting gcc-12.
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>>
>>> Jerry James writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 8:22 AM Camm Maguire wrote:
>>>>> Greetings! Yes, the upload still seems stuck in the ftp-upload queue,
>>>>> but all feedback thus far indicates a successful installation:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ftp-upload-report/2022-12/msg00062.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm hoping it appears in a few days, but in the meantime you can
>>>>> checkout tag Version_2_6_13 from git. Please let me know if problems
>>>>> persist.
>>>>
>>>> Something seems wrong. The gcl-2.6.13 tarball still doesn't appear at
>>>> gnu.org, but files uploaded after it have appeared (tramp-2.6.0.tar.gz
>>>> and ncurses-6.4.tar.gz, for example).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Camm Maguire [email protected]
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>>>
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