Minor Scheme                                                 -*- mode: text -*-
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Minor Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language,
under construction.  Our goals are:

- good performance, via:
  + just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilers generating native
    machine code, and
  + precise, generational garbage collection,
- full support for native system threads,
- full source-level debugging,
- a C API and a foreign function interface, for interfacing with C
  code,
- a module system which supports separate compilation and
  cross-compilation, and
- a hygenic macro system.

Minor currently requires:

- Either:
  + An IA-32 family processor, 80486 or later (the 80386 does not guarantee
    atomicity of word stores in an SMP configuration), or
  + An AMD64 family processor.
- POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition), with the following optional
  functionality (marked as indicated in the margins of the spec):
  + X/Open System Interface Extensions ("XSI") (the sigaction
    interface, in particular)
  + Threads ("THR")
  + Semaphores ("SEM")
- A version of GNU CC implementing ISO C (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E),
  commonly called "C99")
- Versions of GNU CC, the GNU Binutils, and the GNU C library that
  support the '__thread' thread-local storage class.


Building from sources
=====================

You can get the current Minor sources from the Subversion repository:

  $ svn co http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/minor/trunk

The source tree as stored doesn't contain generated files like
'configure' or 'Makefile.in'.  The 'config.sh' script takes care of
that:

  $ ./config.sh

From there, the usual GNU steps should work:

  $ ./configure
  $ make

If you'd like to run the tests, you can do that:

  $ make check