Hey Chris! Nice to see you in the TCC mailing lists as well. :-) Here are a couple of thoughts on your ideas.
First, compiling perl5 with tcc will not really give you any of the features of tcc. If it compiles (and it has a decent chance of doing that) It'll just produce a perl binary that runs slower. I suspect that you probably want to jit-compile code using tcc. For the roots of that, see the test for libtcc: http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git/blob/HEAD:/tests/libtcc_test.c. That said, if you're working in Perl, you probably should look into a couple of packages that have already wrapped tcc up as a jit compiler, including (my) C::TinyCompiler (https://metacpan.org/pod/C::TinyCompiler) and Steffen Mueller's XS::TCC (https://metacpan.org/pod/XS::TCC). Finally, you're probably interested in getting things working on Windows. I bet that Cygwin works just fine even with the current branch, but MinGW might give trouble. I spent some time making sure that Alien::TinyCC installs the necessary header files for MinGW, so if you install that (or C::TinyCompiler) then it should work correctly on both Cygwin and MinGW. I've not tried building with visual studio, but I don't think you use that on your end. Let me know if you have more questions about Perl/tcc. This is a subject near and dear to my heart. :-) David On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to integrate tcc with some perl5 programs to the best extent > possible. > Has anyone tried and/or reported being able to build perl5 with tcc? > > Thanks, > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Tinycc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel > > -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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