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#+SUBTITLE: Maxwell Equations of Software
[[https://www.gnu.org/software/mes][GNU Mes]] is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU
System. Since version 0.22 it has again helped to halve the size of
opaque, uninspectable binary seeds that are currently being used in the
[[https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25][Further Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap]] of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix][GNU Guix]]. The final goal is to
help create a full-source bootstrap as part of the [[https://bootstrappable.org][bootstrappable builds]]
effort for UNIX-like operating systems.
System. It has helped to decimate the number and size of binary seeds
that were used in the bootstrap of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guix][GNU Guix]] 1.0. Recently, version
0.24.2 has realized the first [[https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/][Full Source Bootstrap]] for Guix. The final
goal is to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the
[[https://bootstrappable.org][bootstrappable builds]] effort for any UNIX-like operating system.
The Scheme interpreter is written in ~5,000 LOC of simple C, and the C
compiler written in Scheme and these are mutual self-hosting. Mes can
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support a REPL and a C99 compiler: mescc.
Mes + MesCC + Mes C Library can build a [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc][bootstrappable TinyCC]] that is
self-hosting. Using this tcc and the Mes C library we now have a
Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap for the gnutools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
self-hosting. Using this bootstrappable-tcc and the Mes C library we
can build an ancient version of the GNU tools triplet: glibc-2.2.5,
binutils-2.20.1, gcc-2.95.3. This is enough to bootstrap Guix for
i686-linux, x86_64-linux, armhf-linux and aarch64-linux.
Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
Jeremiah Orians's [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]] ~500 byte self-hosting hex assembler.
Mes was inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: [[https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf][LISP-1.5]] -- John
McCarthy page 13, Guix's source/binary packaging transparency and
Jeremiah Orians's [[https://github.com/oriansj/stage0][stage0]], a ~500-byte self-hosting hex assembler.
We are very grateful to NLNet for sponsoring the [[https://nlnet.nl/project/GNUMes][Reduced Binary Seed
bootstrap]], the [[https://nlnet.nl/project/GNUMes-arm][ARM port]], and the [[https://nlnet.nl/project/GNUMes-ARM_RISC-V][Full Source Bootstrap.]]
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* Links
[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/mes
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/
[3] https://bootstrappable.org
[4] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
[5] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mescc-tools
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[14] https://nlnet.nl/project/GNUMes-ARM_RISC-V
* Legalese
Copyright © 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <[[mailto:janneke@gnu.org][janneke@gnu.org]]>
Copyright © 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <[[mailto:janneke@gnu.org][janneke@gnu.org]]>
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