From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On elisp running native Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:03:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83fth5q30t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838smzq9iz.fsf@gnu.org> <8336d6rfgy.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgl6p1xa.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="100282"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 27 15:03:40 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqDL-000Pzh-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:03:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35712 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqDK-00061a-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:03:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqDD-00061T-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqDD-0000lx-B7; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2334 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqDC-0005Zy-MS; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:03:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrea Corallo on Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:46:50 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243702 Archived-At: > From: Andrea Corallo > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:46:50 +0000 > > > This means it's GCC-specific, and moreover requires native support for > > loading ELF objects, right? Which means it will probably run well > > only on GNU/Linux and maybe the *BSD systems. That's a bummer for me > > personally, because my main development machine runs (gasp!) > > MS-Windows. IOW, I will never be able to run or debug this feature, > > except by remote login to a GNU/Linux system or some other equally > > inconvenient method, because neither ELF loading nor libgccjit are > > available on my system. (Or maybe you intend to make both happen on > > MS-Windows as part of your work? ;-) > > I'm not sure about libgccjit windows support (probably lacking it?) or > how hard would be to put it in place. I don't have a windows machine to > develop on so it's out of my reachable scope sorry. > > At least I see libgccjit ships already with a lot of GNU/Linux > distribution. AFAIK, it is available only on ELF-based systems, perhaps not even on all of them. > I understand your concern on this. I guess is up to me to prove the > opposite with steady contribution. Thank you for working on this.