Hi!

Now that MesCC starts to build TinyCC that starts to pass a large set of
the mescc C tests, it's time to get walking the bootstrap path.

Attached*) is my initial attempt for the full source bootstrap path in
GuixSD; to try it, do

    ./pre-inst-env guix build mes-boot
    ...
    /gnu/store/lj7h0s33qghgk4zw2nb133riz7xhara9-mes-boot-0.11-0.948dd79/bin/mes --help

The starting point is Jeremiah Orian's stage0 self hosting hex
assembler.  The binary seed of our bootstrap is made explicit in an
additional source download: stage0-seed (of ~400 bytes).  This binary
that is identical with it's ASCII source can be considered "source".

There are still many gaps in our full source bootstrap path to-be, I
"filled" these by adding additional binary seeds: mescc-tools-seed and
mes-seed.  We are working to remove these, that will take some time.

The mes-boot package needs a lot more work and tinycc-boot, gcc-boot
packages are still missing.

Greetings,
janneke


*) Or fetch branch wip-bootstrap: https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix