[Chicago-talk] Announcement: Alien Module and Bindings for the Tiny C Compiler

[Joel Berger]

Very cool.  I have some questions which I can pose when I'm on a non mobile
platform.  For now you might want to consider adding the meta merge for
your github repo and tracker. That way the websites correctly list them and
bugs go to the right place.  See most of my modules for examples if needed.

Congrats!
On Aug 21, 2013 7:29 AM, "David Mertens" <dcmertens.perl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I have finally written and uploaded the first version of Alien::TinyCC and
> the second version of C::TinyCompiler. I am spamming all of you because
> either (1) it seems appropriate for the list or (2) I think that you might
> be interested based on personal conversations we've had.
>
> *The Tiny C Compiler* is a small, fast, nearly C99 compliant C compiler
> written for Linux and Windows, which can also compile object code on Mac
> (but cannot produce Mach-O executables or dylibs). It targets 32- and
> 64-bit Intel instruction sets as well as ARM architectures. The compiler is
> very fast, but what you get in compile-time speed you lose in non-optimized
> machine code. However, it's still machine code, and it offers a library
> that includes functionality for compiling arbitrary strings of C code at
> runtime! For development, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tinycc.
>
> *C::TinyCompiler* provides an interface to using that just-in-time
> compilation capability, as well as a framework for building reusable
> components in the system. If you are using one of the major platforms and
> have to generate code at runtime, this will probably be a better tool for
> you than Inline::C. If your C code is static, the one-time hit for
> compilation will pay for itself with the caching mechanism, and the code
> will execute faster, so you're better off sticking with Inline::C in that
> case. For development, see https://github.com/run4flat/perl-TCC.
>
> *Alien::TinyCC* installs the Tiny C Compiler to a non-invasive location
> which is almost certainly not in the user's path, but the module itself
> fiddles with $ENV{PATH} and, possibly, $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} to ensure that
> the compiler and its main library are available within the Perl environment
> that invokes the module. Note that this module does not pay any attention
> to a local install of tinycc, it *always* installs tcc under the
> distribution sharedir for Alien::TinyCC. For development, see
> https://github.com/run4flat/Alien-TinyCC.
>
> *New as of this morning* is the Alien module, and the modification to
> C::TinyCompiler to use it. Now C::TinyCompiler has a decent chance of
> building and operating on the most popular systems. I expect to hit a few
> bumps, of course, so I am writing to solicit *testing and feedback*.
>
> Please spread the word to any and all who might be interested. Also, there
> is plenty of room for improving C::TinyCompiler, especially fleshing out
> C::TinyCompiler::Perl as well as making C::TinyCompiler::Callable more
> efficient. I would also be happy to see modules that provide
> C::TinyCompiler interfaces to C libraries.
>
> Thanks!
> David
>
> --
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
>
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