2 Mes -- Maxwell Equations of Software
4 Mes aims to create an entirely source-based bootstrapping path. The
5 target is to [have GuixSD] boostrap from a minimal, easily inspectable
6 binary --that should be readable as source-- into something close to
9 As bootstrapping is presumably easiest and probably most fun with
10 Scheme, the next step for Mes is mescc: a C compiler/linker to
11 boostrap into GNU Gcc and GNU Guile, possibly via Tiny-CC.
13 It currently has an interpreter written in C (mes) with Garbage
14 Collector (Jam Scraper), a library of loadable Scheme modules with
15 test suite just barely enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and
16 a proof-of-concept c-compiler (mescc.mes) that produces an elf from
17 the simplest of C files.
19 Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
22 Mes is free software, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
23 General Public Licence version 3 or later. See the file COPYING.
27 git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
29 * Build it (see INSTALL for full instructions)
41 scripts/mescc.mes doc/examples/main.c > a.out