Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable]

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  True just as you state, given a C compiler producing wasm.
Is there such?

Take care,

Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 <camm@maguirefamily.org> 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 <hbaker1@pipeline.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi Camm:
>> >
>> > Dumb question:
>> >
>> > Has anyone gotten GCL to run within WASM yet?
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org>
>> > Sent: Jan 12, 2023 11:07 AM
>> > To: Jerry James <loganjerry@gmail.com>, <camm@maguirefamily.org>
>> > Cc: <maxima-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>, <gcl-devel@gnu.org>
>> > 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 camm@maguirefamily.org
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>> Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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