On 24/01/2026 00:52, [email protected] wrote:
I'm surprised nobody has answered this yet, but I suppose it's better
late than never ;-)
The answer is that MIT-Scheme should already be bootstrappable. There
(used to be?) a C backend for LIAR that compiles the sources to C
code, and that can be found already pre-packaged here:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mit-scheme/stable.pkg/9.2/mit-scheme-c-9.2.tar.gz
The instructions for compiling that are here:
https://web.mit.edu/scheme_v9.2/doc/mit-scheme-user/Portable-C-Installation.html
Once you compile that C program, you should have enough to start
building yourself up to the latest MIT-Scheme.
I hope that helps.
Thanks! I'm also interested in the MIT Scheme compiler, and I'll go
knee-deep into the source code to understand how it works :)
I'll share any patches that I make, in case they're useful for upstream.
With best regards,
Adam
