Having found rust wasn't going to work, I've hacked up a rough core of the

cons space in C. None of this is tested.

src/init.c

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+/**
+ * init.c
+ *
+ * Start up and initialise the environement - just enough to get working and (ultimately)
+ * hand off to the executive.
+ *
+ *
+ * (c) 2017 Simon Brooke <simon@journeyman.cc>
+ * Licensed under GPL version 2.0, or, at your option, any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "version.h"
+#include "conspage.h"
+
+int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
+  printf( "Post scarcity software environment version %s\n", VERSION);
+  conspagesinit();
+
+  return(0);
+}