Re: How to add Guile support to a package

[Matt Wette <mwette@alumni.caltech.edu>]

What you propose seems reasonable to me.   Though I have not use the AC stuff enough to say how to do it.

There is a section in the guile manual (Section 5, Section 6.4 of 2.0 manual) on embedding guile into your own program.
I believe you will need to call scm_with_guile() to get into debug mode run by guile.  You might try to run just a "hello world" example.

Does gnu chess use the boehm GC?   I wonder how that works in this case.

Matt

On Jan 4, 2015, at 5:47 AM, Antonio Ceballos <aceballos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guile folks,
> 
> I am thinking about adding guile support to GNU Chess. As it would be used as a kind of debug mode, I don't want it to have it by default, so as to avoid usually unnecessary extra dependencies. I have gone through some tutorials, and have prototyped a guile-enabled version, but it is far from working fine yet. Could you please give me some advice? I am not sure if this is the right list to post this question.
> 
> To be more specific, I would like to get something like this:
> 
> 1. Optional guile support via a configure option, being the default no guile support.
> 2. Conditional compilation of guile-enabled source code, via C precompilation directive.
> 
> More details will be necessary for sure, but I would like to have a contact with some of you guys first.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Antonio Ceballos
>