Will this change remove the need for pugscc to be cygpath'ed on cygwin? Or, should I go ahead and work on this?
Rob On 5/3/05, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because I want to embed PGE in Pugs, I end up embedding the > entire libparrot. :-) > > As of two hours ago, if you set the PUGS_EMBED environment > variable to "parrot" and run perl Makefile.PL, Pugs will > build and link against Parrot, and provide a require_parrot() > primitive for you. JIT works as one owuld expecte, too. > > Jeff Horwitz (of mod_parrot and more recently, mod_pugs fame) > is now hacking away on hooking Pugs's IMC generator with > the embedded Parrot, so we can have on-the-fly compilation > without the need to call external "pugscc". > > In other news, the Grin intermediate language used by JHC > Haskell compiler looks very promising: > > http://repetae.net/john/computer/jhc/jhc.html > > Jhc's Grin -> C compiler is only some 300 lines long, and > unlike GHC, it does not link against a runtime system (RTS), > so it should be relatively straightforward to make a > Grin -> Parrot compiler -- or even a Grin -> Perl 6 compiler. > > Once that happens, we can then recompile Pugs with it, and > finish the circle of bootstrapping. There are many other > bootstrapping routes, but this one looks interesting. :-) > > Thanks, > /Autrijus/ > > >
