[Asdf-devel] ASDF and generated files

[Robert Brown]

The protobuf Lisp package contains an ASDF file that
converts protocol buffer source files into Common Lisp and
compiles them.  Perhaps the ASDF will give you some
ideas for how to handle the Scheme to Lisp translation.

https://github.com/brown/protobuf/blob/master/protobuf.asd

Bob

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Ralf Mattes <rm at mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
> Hello, dear ASDF developers,
>
> I'm currently trying to port some old lisp code (Common Music) to
> ASDF3[1]. Common Music's source is written in Scheme, the Common Lisp
> version is generated from the Scheme code. Unfortunately CM's current
> asdf file is littered with executable code (not only compiling inoking
> the Scheme->Lisp compiler but also calling (non-portable) shell scripts
> etc. This is unfortunate since many asdf operations will trigger this
> code. Hence my attempt to rewrite the asdf and transfer the scheme->lisp
> part into a second asdf system. Unfortunately I can't find any
> documentation on how to implement such a code transformation. I can
> create a new component class scheme-file but what methods do I need to
> implement? Where can I call the function that actually compiles a scheme
> file to lisp (Common Music's scheme->lisp compiler works on files).
>
> TIA Ralf Mattes
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  my main goal is to make Common Music distributable by quicklisp.
>
>
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