mes

Scheme interpreter and C compiler for full source bootstrapping

GNU Mes--Maxwell Equations of Software--brings the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap to Guix and aims to help create full source bootstrapping for GNU/Linux distributions. It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in Scheme and is compatible with Guile.

Versions: 0.26
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
Licenses: GPL 3+
Package source: gnu/packages/mes.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install the latest version of mes as follows:

guix install mes

Or install a particular version:

guix install mes@0.26

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.