Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix

[Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>]

On 2/6/22 17:35, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2022, Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
>      
>> Anyway, just some thoughts.  Making Guile packages is already much less
>> intimidating now thanks to Hall's work.  Thank you for it!
> Here's my two cents.  As much as I like hall for pure Guile project,
> it's difficult to integrate extension libraries written in C.  I've also
> never been a fan of the autotools stuffs.
>
> I personnally end up writting something similar to hall for a project of
> mine using Guix records.  From a description like so:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (project
>    (name "foo")
>    (version "1")
>    (configuration-file "config.scm")
>    (export-configuration
>      '(("include/config.h" . "FOO_CONFIG_H")
>        ("foo/config.scm"   . "foo config")))
>    (build-directory "./build")
>    (cppflags `(-Include ,(pkg-cflags-only-I '(guile-3.0))))
>    (guile-root "foo")
>    (guile-tests-root "tests")
>    (scripts
>      (list
>        (script
>          (name "foo")
>          (file "scripts/foo")
>          (install? #t))
>        (script
>          (name "debug")
>          (file "scripts/debug")
>          (install? #f))))
>    (c-modules
>      (list
>        (c-module
>          (name "foo")
>          (files '("core/*.c"))
>          (packages '(guile-3.0)))
>        (c-module
>          (name "bar")
>          (files '("bar/bar.c"))
>          (ldflags '(-lsomelib))
>          (packages '(some-other-lib)))))
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> this description end up generating a `guix.scm`, `makefile`,
> `pre-install-env`, `foo/config.scm` and `include/config.h`.  Packaging
> is just a matter of shipping the `makefile` with the source codes.
What is this similar to Hall thing you have written, which generates the files 
from the code you gave?

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