>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
James> Yes. Short version: because I couldn't figure out how to build Maxima
James> with defsystem and an asdf solution was presented to me.
James> Long version: For all other lisps, we create a maxima image through
James> defsystem by compiling, loading and then dumping the resulting
James> image. Ecl doesn't have a "dump image" concept, it compiles an
James> application by linking together object files in some manner the
James> details of which I have not tried to understand. Ecl comes with a
James> customized asdf that builds applications with a single command.
Here is a partial solution for defystem. Use the following replacement
functions in maxima.system.
(defun do-compile-ecl (&rest args)
(apply #'compile-file (append args (list :system-p t)))
(let ((file (first args))
(output (getf (cdr args) :output-file)))
(c:build-fasl (compile-file-pathname output :type :fasl)
:lisp-files (list (compile-file-pathname output :type :object)))))
(defun build-maxima-lib ()
(labels ((list-all-objects (module)
(if (eql (mk::component-type module) :file)
(list (mk::component-full-pathname module :binary))
(apply #'append (mapcar #'list-all-objects (mk::component-components module))))))
(let* ((files (list-all-objects (mk:find-system 'maxima)))
(obj (mapcar #'(lambda (p)
(make-pathname :type "o" :defaults p))
files)))
(c::build-program "binary-ecl/maxima" :lisp-files obj))))
You'll probably also want to comment out the :compiler-options for ecl
since do-compile-ecl handles that. Finally, you'll need to adjust the
system definition to load ecl-port.lisp:
(:module package :source-pathname ""
#-ecl :load-only #-ecl t
:components (#-gcl(:file "maxima-package")
#+ecl (:file "ecl-port")
(:file "autoconf-variables")))
>From the src directory, I started ecl, loaded defsystem.lisp and
maxima.system, and ran (mk:oos "maxima" :compile). Then you have to
run (cl-user::build-maxima-lib) to create binary-ecl/maxima. (The
:finally-do doesn't seem to run.)
Everything seems to work and the testsuite passes.
One nice side-effect: The binary goes in binary-ecl and doesn't trash
src/maxima.
I did not try to integrate this into the Makefile. Shouldn't be too hard.
Ray