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.
I think it would be great to be able to do this, but I think all of the Lisps that compile to C require special things (signals?) to implement GC. That probably won't work well in WASM.
--
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).
> >
> > --
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