Re: Bigloo for emcc

> On May 14, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Eduardo Costa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Now, let us see the problem. It would be great if Bigloo could generate WebAssembly through emsdk and emcc. As far as I know, Mark Feeley had no difficulty in creating an emsdk version for gambit scheme. However, this was not very useful since gambit does not generate executable code, therefore one cannot send a scheme app to a browser.

Can you explain what you mean?  Gambit has the -exe option to create executable programs:

% cat eduardo.scm
(println (expt 2 200))
% gsc -exe eduardo.scm
% ./eduardo
1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376

You can also easily create, with the “-target js” option, JavaScript programs that run with node or in the browser.  Here is an example with the JS code embedded in an .html page:

% cat eduardo.scm
(define (alert msg) (##inline-host-statement "alert(g_scm2host(@1@));" msg))
(alert "hello!")
% gsc -target js -o eduardo.html -exe eduardo.scm
% open eduardo.html

So emsdk is not needed.

Marc