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feat(nix/buildLisp): add ecl Adds ECL as a second supported implementation, specifically a statically linked ECL. This is interesting because we can create statically linked binaries, but has a few drawbacks which doesn't make it generally useful: * Loading things is very slow: The statically linked ECL only has byte compilation available, so when we do load things or use the REPL it is significantly worse than with e. g. SBCL. * We can't load shared objects via the FFI since ECL's dffi is not available when linked statically. This means that as it stands, we can't build a statically linked //web/panettone for example. Since ECL is quite slow anyways, I think these drawbacks are worth it since the biggest reason for using ECL would be to get a statically linked binary. If we change our minds, it shouldn't be too hard to provide ecl-static and ecl-dynamic as separate implementations. ECL is LGPL and some libraries it uses as part of its runtime are as well. I've outlined in the ecl-static overlay why this should be of no concern in the context of depot even though we are statically linking. Currently everything is building except projects that are using cffi to load shared libaries which have gotten an appropriate `badImplementations` entry. To get the rest building the following changes were made: * Anywhere a dependency on UIOP is expressed as `bundled "uiop"` we now use `bundled "asdf"` for all implementations except SBCL. From my testing, SBCL seems to be the only implementation to support using `(require 'uiop)` to only load the UIOP package. Where both a dependency on ASDF and UIOP exists, we just delete the UIOP one. `(require 'asdf)` always causes UIOP to be available. * Where appropriate only conditionally compile SBCL-specific code and if any build the corresponding files for ECL. * //lisp/klatre: Use the standard condition parse-error for all implementations except SBCL in try-parse-integer. * //3p/lisp/ironclad: disable SBCL assembly optimization hack for all other platforms as it may interfere with compilation. * //3p/lisp/trivial-mimes: prevent call to asdf function by substituting it out of the source since it always errors out in ECL and we hardcode the correct path elsewhere anyways. As it stands ECL still suffers from a very weird problem which happens when compiling postmodern and moptilities: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/651 Change-Id: I0285924f92ac154126b4c42145073c3fb33702ed Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/3297 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in> Reviewed-by: eta <tvl@eta.st>
2021-08-09 02:47:07 +02:00
{ ... }:
self: super:
{
# Statically linked ECL with statically linked dependencies.
# Works quite well, but solving this properly in a nixpkgs
# context will require figuring out cross compilation (for
# pkgsStatic), so we're gonna use this override for now.
#
# Note that ecl-static does mean that we have things
# statically linked against GMP and ECL which are LGPL.
# I believe this should be alright: The way ppl are gonna
# interact with the distributed binaries (i. e. the binary
# cache) is Nix in the depot monorepo, so the separability
# requirement should be satisfied: Source code or overriding
# would be available as ways to swap out the used GMP in the
# program.
# See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic
ecl-static = (super.pkgsMusl.ecl.override {
inherit (self.pkgsStatic) gmp libffi boehmgc;
}).overrideAttrs (drv: rec {
# version must not be changed as it indicates where to find the bundled libs,
# using ecl HEAD is necessary for us since it includes multiple fixes to do
# with bytecode compilation and allows to concatenate fasc files again.
src = self.fetchFromGitLab {
owner = "embeddable-common-lisp";
repo = "ecl";
rev = "1c989247c1b0bf1d38a76aec30b9ca5e41afe1e3";
sha256 = "0bzjqw6m1kk5z5b81yizic347k931msp5lf78x65dcw3fqfwv3xn";
};
feat(nix/buildLisp): add ecl Adds ECL as a second supported implementation, specifically a statically linked ECL. This is interesting because we can create statically linked binaries, but has a few drawbacks which doesn't make it generally useful: * Loading things is very slow: The statically linked ECL only has byte compilation available, so when we do load things or use the REPL it is significantly worse than with e. g. SBCL. * We can't load shared objects via the FFI since ECL's dffi is not available when linked statically. This means that as it stands, we can't build a statically linked //web/panettone for example. Since ECL is quite slow anyways, I think these drawbacks are worth it since the biggest reason for using ECL would be to get a statically linked binary. If we change our minds, it shouldn't be too hard to provide ecl-static and ecl-dynamic as separate implementations. ECL is LGPL and some libraries it uses as part of its runtime are as well. I've outlined in the ecl-static overlay why this should be of no concern in the context of depot even though we are statically linking. Currently everything is building except projects that are using cffi to load shared libaries which have gotten an appropriate `badImplementations` entry. To get the rest building the following changes were made: * Anywhere a dependency on UIOP is expressed as `bundled "uiop"` we now use `bundled "asdf"` for all implementations except SBCL. From my testing, SBCL seems to be the only implementation to support using `(require 'uiop)` to only load the UIOP package. Where both a dependency on ASDF and UIOP exists, we just delete the UIOP one. `(require 'asdf)` always causes UIOP to be available. * Where appropriate only conditionally compile SBCL-specific code and if any build the corresponding files for ECL. * //lisp/klatre: Use the standard condition parse-error for all implementations except SBCL in try-parse-integer. * //3p/lisp/ironclad: disable SBCL assembly optimization hack for all other platforms as it may interfere with compilation. * //3p/lisp/trivial-mimes: prevent call to asdf function by substituting it out of the source since it always errors out in ECL and we hardcode the correct path elsewhere anyways. As it stands ECL still suffers from a very weird problem which happens when compiling postmodern and moptilities: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/651 Change-Id: I0285924f92ac154126b4c42145073c3fb33702ed Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/3297 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in> Reviewed-by: eta <tvl@eta.st>
2021-08-09 02:47:07 +02:00
configureFlags = drv.configureFlags ++ [
"--disable-shared"
"--with-dffi=no" # will fail at runtime anyways if statically linked
];
});
}