[Yhc] YHC Source: Where to Start?

[Alexis Morris]

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the reply. As I'm interested in porting YHC to the Lego
Mindstorms NXT, I am guessing that I would need to be more familiar with the
source...at present I am trying to work through the instructions on porting
the tool on the site, but also would like to know which pieces are the bare
minimum for having a working YHC VM.

The plan is to have YHC layered on top of the NXT firmware with some API
wrappers for using the lego drivers. So for the VM I am trying to figure out
where such an API would fit in with the existing framework and what files
need to be involved...I was planning to write this interface in C originally
but now I see that the source is in Haskell, so I'll have my hands full with
that :)  but first I'm just surveying the YHC stuff to see how it fits.

Another option someone mentioned was to have GCC convert code to abstract C
and then run that...does YHC do something similar using STG/abstract C??

Cheers,


On 6/5/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexis,
>
> > I have downloaded the sources from Darcs and I am trying to isolate the
> > critical components of YHC. Does anyone have resources that explains the
> > overview of the source tree...important folders, main program, etc? Can
> > anyone give a rough overview?
>
> If you give us a quick hint at what you are most interested in we can
> point you in the right direction :)
>
> > Make
> Experimental and incomplete Haskell build system - not currently used
>
> > bootstrap
> Bootstrapping stuff, hand written hi files
>
> > misc
> Left over stuff.
>
> > src
> The good stuff!
>
> interactive  = yhci
> packages = Haskell libraries
> tester  = test framework
> compiler98 = the compiler
> libraries = Yhc.Core stuff
> runtime = yhi
> translator = javascript stuff
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>



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</Alexis>
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