The macos-13 Intel runner no longer gets allocated, so the x86_64-macos release
job queues forever. Ship prebuilt binaries for x86_64-linux and aarch64-macos;
Intel Macs build from source. The install script now says so instead of 404ing
on a missing asset.
`joltc build` inlines the runtime (host/chez/rt.ss and everything it loads, the
seed, compile-eval, loader, ffi, the vendored irregex) into each app binary by
reading those files off disk. That works from a jolt checkout but not from the
installed self-contained binary, which has no source tree:
joltc build -m app.core
=> Exception in call-with-input-file: failed for host/chez/rt.ss: no such file
build-joltc now bakes the exact transitive closure of files the build inlines
into the binary as embedded resources (keyed by the path the `(load "…")` forms
use), and build.ss/dce.ss read runtime source through bld-source-string, which
takes the embedded copy when present and falls back to disk otherwise. So the
same joltc builds apps both from a checkout and standalone.
The release workflow now smoke-tests a self-contained build (compile a tiny app
from an isolated dir, run it) — this is exactly what shipped broken, so it now
gates the release. buildsmoke/shakesmoke/staticnativesmoke unchanged and green.
Build tooling only — no re-mint, no runtime change.
On a pushed v* tag, build the self-contained joltc (make joltc-release) for
x86_64-linux, x86_64-macos, and aarch64-macos, package each as a tar.gz plus a
SHA256, and attach them to the GitHub Release. Linux builds Chez from source like
tests.yml (the apt package lacks the kernel dev files build-joltc cc-links
against); macOS uses Homebrew chezscheme, which ships chez and the csv kernel
files. No notarization, matching dirge — macOS tarball users de-quarantine once
or install via a Homebrew tap.
The Homebrew tap update job is a separate follow-on; this covers building and
publishing the release assets.
The from-source Chez build failed on expeditor.c needing X11/Xlib.h — the
expression editor's clipboard. Configure with --disable-x11 (not needed in CI)
and bump the cache key. Add a "Compile a binary" section to the README.
The apt chezscheme package ships petite+scheme only — no kernel dev files — so
the standalone-binary gate skipped on CI, leaving the whole jolt build pipeline
and the --opt inference passes uncovered on Linux. Build Chez v10.4.1 from
source (cached) to get libkernel.a + scheme.h, install the libs the kernel links
against, and set the Linux link flags. buildsmoke now runs for real in CI.
The self-host byte-fixpoint (make selfhost) only holds on the Chez that minted
the seed — CI's Debian Chez emits byte-different output for some constructs
(isolated to the dedupe re-mint), so it failed there. The checked-in seed RUNS
correctly on any Chez, so CI now runs 'make ci' (corpus/unit/smoke/sci/certify);
'make test' keeps selfhost for local dev. Cross-version emit determinism tracked
in jolt-8479.
Chez derives its boot-file name from argv0, so a symlink named chez looks for a
nonexistent chez.boot (CI failed at the first gate step). Replace the symlink
with a wrapper that exec's scheme, preserving argv0 so the boot files resolve.
Rewrite the README, CLAUDE.md build/architecture sections, test/chez/README,
and conformance SPEC for the Janet-free world: bin/joltc + make test, the
self-hosting bootstrap, the frozen JVM-sourced corpus. CI installs Chez + JDK/
Clojure and runs 'make test' (was Janet/jpm).
jolt-cf1q.6
run-tests.janet runs the same file set as `jpm test` across a pool of worker
processes (one `janet FILE` each, ev-based). The full gate goes from ~790s
serial to ~98s here (8x), and more on CI where the heavy files don't thrash on
swap. CI and the docs point at it; `jpm test` still works serially.
Three things dominated the wall:
- Nine integration tests cold-built a compile ctx (~8s each); switch them to
api/init-cached so they share the prebuilt image. The cache key already
fingerprints the ctx-shaping env vars, so the direct-link ones share one DL
image and the rest share the plain one.
- core-bench's main ran on every gate (~35s of benchmark loops that assert
nothing); gate it behind JOLT_BENCH=1.
- cli-test spawned `janet src/jolt/main.janet` ~20 times at ~8s cold each
(340s under parallel load, and it was the whole wall); prefer build/jolt
(~20ms baked ctx) when present, fall back to from-source for an unbuilt tree.
type-check-test stays on cold init: a snapshot-loaded ctx loses the success
checker's op/msg detail (jolt-vley). jolt-pria tracks caching from-source
startup generally, which would let cli-test drop the build/jolt preference.
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
adds self-hosted compiler is functionally:
- The default compile path is the portable pipeline using jolt.analyzer (Clojure) → host-neutral IR → backend.janet.
- The analyzer is itself Clojure, compiled by jolt for true self-hosting.
- bootstrap-fixpoint passes (stage1 == stage2 == stage3): rebuilding the compiler on its own output.
- clojure.core is now self-hosted in the overlay.
- Stateful forms (defmacro/ns/deftype/defmulti/require/in-ns) are interpreted by design.
bootstrap.janet resolves jpm/cli.janet relative to cwd, so it must run
from /tmp/jpm rather than the repo root (fixes 'could not find file
jpm/cli.janet').
- .github/workflows/tests.yml: build Janet (cached) + jpm, init vendor/sci
submodule, run jpm test on every push and PR.
- README: explain the per-form eval router — interpreted (default) vs
compiled (:compile?), the always-interpret carve-out, and shared context.
