GNU Mes Reference Manual

Table of Contents

GNU Mes

This document describes GNU Mes version 0.24.1, a bootstrappable Scheme interpreter and C compiler written for bootstrapping the GNU system.


• Introduction		What is Mes about?
• Installation		Installing Mes.
• Bootstrapping		Would you strap my boots?
• Contributing		Your help needed!
• Acknowledgments		Thanks!
• Resources
• GNU Free Documentation License		The license of this manual.
• Concept Index		Concepts.
• Programming Index		Data types, functions, and variables.
— The Detailed Node Listing — Software Freedom
• Reproducible Builds		Reproducibility and free software.
• Bootstrappable Builds		The freedom to build a software without binary seed.
• Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap		Guix reduces bootstrap binaries with 50%.
• Scheme-only Bootsrap		Guix reduced bootstrap binaries to 25%.
• Full Source Bootstrap		A bootstrap worthy of GNU.
• LISP as Maxwell's Equations of Software		Auditable elegance.
Full Source Bootstrap
• Stage0		The Magical Self-Hosting Hex Assembler.
• M2-Planet		A Sub-C bootstrap compiler.
Installation
• Requirements		Software needed to build and run Mes.
• Bootstrap Requirements		Software needed to bootstrap Mes.
• Running the Test Suites		Testing Mes.
Bootstrapping
• The Mes Bootstrap Process		How Mes will make you yogurt from pure milk.
• Invoking mes		Running Mes, a minimalist Guile lookalike.
• Invoking mescc		Running the MesCC bootstrap compiler.
• Invoking mesar
Invoking mes
• Environment Variables		If the bits won’t change, change their habitat.
Invoking mescc
• MesCC Environment Variables		There’s no NIX like POSIX.
Contributing
• Building from Git		The latest and greatest.
• Running Mes From the Source Tree		Hacker tricks.
• Porting GNU Mes		Teach Mes about your platform.
• The Perfect Setup		The right tools.
• Coding Style		Hygiene of the contributor.
• Submitting Patches		Share your work.