[Ecls-list] ECL on emulators

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:22 +0100, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:35 +0100, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:
> > I found this nifty little package
> > http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/intro.html
> > Did anybody have experience with it?
> > 
> > I am right now installing NetBSD/cats (i.e. ARM) on it, and it seems to
> > work. Plus it also includes emulators for several MIPS and even a m86k
> > (although it does not gives pointers on whether MMU, NetBSD or Linux is
> > supported).
> 
> The simulator is pretty cool. Once you remove pointer alignment checks
> (there seem to be some bugs there), it manages to run NetBSD and build
> ECL -- LSP/CLOS are done so far; it's building the compiler right now

Ok guys, ECL seems to work flawlessly on NetBSD/cats with minor changes
in the makefile to allow ECL build with Free/Net/OpenBSD's make instead
of requiring GNU make. I will probably feed these changes back into the
CVS source tree.

Next step: testing with Paul's suite. I bet that's going to take
long :-)

Juanjo

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