Friday, April 26, 2002

The files to enable compiling Goo under .NET are available here. Unzip into your Goo directory so that the relevant files go under the 'C' and 'C/G2C' subdirectories. Run 'C/G2C/build.bat' to compile. Note that this is a quick hack to get things working. Various caveats and problems are listed below. Any assistance on any of these appreciated. Email me if you can provide details. For the changes I used _MSC_VER as the define to test against but I really need to find what define to use for .NET specifically rather than a Microsoft Visual C++ compiler generic define. I had to add prototypes for various functions in grt.h and these should really be moved somewhere more valid. The Managed C compiler requires prototypes for functions. See the end of grt.h for details. I also had to add (char*) casts to some of the pointer manipulation for the compiler to be happy. No garbage collection yet. Not sure quite how to manage that but I'll look into it. Anyone know how to allocate memory from the garbage collector from C? 6:10:56 PM

I've just succeeded in building Goo using the C compiler that ships with the Microsoft .NET framework SDK. I build it using the /CLR option which makes it a .NET application. I'm hopinh it's a start to being able to use the Goo programming language with the .NET class library. Goo is a Scheme like language based on concepts from Scheme, Dylan, Cecil and Common Lisp. 11:45:32 AM