The built joltc.exe exited 3 (msvcrt abort) with no output on the -e smoke.
Link -static so the exe carries no libwinpthread/libgcc/lz4 DLL deps (needed
for distribution regardless), and add an ntldd + direct-run debug step.
zuo's install target shells the unix installsh through cmd and dies. The
build tree already has everything: scheme.exe (boot files beside it, where
the Windows kernel looks), and scheme.h/libkernel.a/boots into a csv dir
that JOLT_CHEZ_CSV points the jolt build at.
The Windows PATH step embedded real newlines in its printf strings, which
broke the block scalar and invalidated the whole workflow file (the push
run failed at parse; workflow_dispatch refused). The wrappers are plain
echo pairs now.
A transient CDN timeout handed bash a 2-minute HTML error page instead of
linux-install.sh and failed the run. curl now fails on HTTP errors and
retries, and the script is sanity-checked before running.
Adds a windows-latest job to the release matrix: MSYS2/MinGW-w64 toolchain,
Chez 10.4.1 built from source (ta6nt), the same build-joltc flow, packaged
as a zip of joltc.exe. The whole job runs in the msys2 shell so cc/xxd/paths
behave; the produced binary is a plain Windows executable.
Platform seams: bld-nt? with the winsock/COM/registry link set, no -rdynamic
under MinGW, GetModuleFileName as the launcher's self-path on _WIN32, and
built binaries (joltc itself and jolt-build outputs) normalize to a .exe
suffix. workflow_dispatch added so the matrix can be dry-run without tagging;
the release upload step only fires on tags.
For #205.
byte/short/int/long/char silently wrapped or passed out-of-range values
through; the JVM range-checks (RT.byteCast family). One checked-cast
helper now carries the ranges: a double range-checks ITSELF before
truncating ((byte 1.1) is 1, (byte 127.000001) throws), NaN casts to 0,
ratios and bigdecs truncate, a non-number is CCE, and the throw carries
the JVM message. float range-checks against Float/MAX_VALUE. The
unchecked-* casts now genuinely wrap and sign-fold ((unchecked-byte 200)
is -56 — the old bit-and lost the sign) with doubles saturating like
Java's conversions; unchecked-long/int are host natives. double/float of
a bigdec convert instead of crashing. The no-single-float residue stays
accepted (SPEC.md).
Also fixes#290: a binary built by the SELF-CONTAINED joltc died with
'variable var-deref is not bound' when a namespace loaded at runtime.
The in-process build compiled flat.ss against a clean copy-environment,
which orphans every top-level define in locations the binary's runtime
eval can't see. It now compiles against the default interaction
environment (defines land in the real symbol cells, same as the legacy
fresh-Chez path) and a generated prologue pre-binds each kernel name the
runtime redefines to its kernel value, so the earliest boot reads match
the legacy path's primitive references. requiring-resolve is implemented
(the issue's dynamic-require pattern), and the release workflow smokes a
runtime require in a built binary.
Cast namespaces byte/short/int/long/char now fully clean; cts baseline
5805 -> 5857 pass, 67 baselined namespaces. 7 JVM-certified corpus rows.
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.
