Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi! > > Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> skribis: > >> I'm afraid OCaml is not bootstrappable. It uses a bytecode version of >> itself (using a bootstrapped bytecode interpreter written in C) to >> build itself. Fortunately this situation is being worked on by a phd >> student of Xavier Leroy (and nixOS user) :). >> >> The plan is to write a compiler in C or Scheme (it currently exists, >> but is written in OCaml) for "miniML" a small subset of the OCaml >> language. Then, there is already an interpreter in miniML able to >> interpret the OCaml compiler compiling itself. Once the miniML >> compiler is bootstrapped, we will have a path from C to OCaml :) > > Do you have pointers to this work? > > Hannes of MirageOS also mentioned it at the Reproducible Builds Summit. > It sounds exciting! > > Ludo’. >
I am also interested in this. MirageOS has a long lineage of making sensible decisions in their development aside from just designing their unikernel. So i'd really like to see if this becomes a possible bridge from C or Scheme to a bootstrappable OCaml. For what I wonder, I think this is something a formal methods community in Guix would be able to contribute to so we see to it that GNU Guix has a good foundation for making OCaml properly bootstrappable. -- Brett M. Gilio GNU Guix, Contributor | GNU Project, Webmaster [DFC0 C7F7 9EE6 0CA7 AE55 5E19 6722 43C4 A03F 0EEE] <bre...@gnu.org> <bre...@posteo.net>
