maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

[Robert Brown]

Take a look at
    https://github.com/brown/protobuf/blob/master/protobuf.asd
and the other ".asd" files in that project.

The file above modifies ASDF so that it can compile and load
Google's protocol buffer definition files.  It may be more
complicated than you need because ".proto" files are first
translated into ".lisp" files, then compiled or loaded.

Bob


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am exploring the possibility of using ASDF to define systems of
> non-Lisp code, specifically for Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net).
> Maxima is written in Lisp but has its own language. I'd like to
> be able to load programs written in Maxima's language and/or
> Lisp.
>
> It seems like ASDF should be suitable if I can just replace calls to
> COMPILE-FILE with Maxima's compile_file, and replace LOAD with
> Maxima's load. After looking over the 3.1.5 source code, it seems
> like one could clobber COMPILE-FILE* and LOAD* with Maxima-specific
> versions. That seems suboptimal, since it would be helpful to have
> the original versions of those functions for loading Lisp files.
>
> Can someone give some advice about how to go about adapting
> ASDF to Maxima? Have there been similar attempts for other
> applications?
>
> The bigger picture is that I'd like to use Quicklisp to download and
> install Maxima packages, and Quicklisp uses ASDF to compile
> and load stuff.
>
> Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this problem.
>
> Robert Dodier
>