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  2. autocompile
    1. Introduction
    2. Requirements
    3. Usage
    4. Environment variables
    5. License
    6. Version history

autocompile

Introduction

This extension provides a simple method of writing scripts that are compiled on demand. A program named chicken-scheme takes a Scheme file and a number of arguments and if the script has not been compiled before or has changed as compared to the last compiled version, compiles it, storing the result in a cache in the user's $HOME directory.

Requirements

matchable

Usage

Autocompiled scripts should begin like this:

 #!/usr/bin/env chicken-scheme
 
 ... code follows here ...

chicken-scheme takes the MD5 hash of the source file and looks it up in the $HOME/.chicken-scheme.cache directory. If it is found, the cached entry is invoked with the remaingin script arguments. Otherwise it will be compiled, with compiler output redirected to a temporary file and executed after that.

The chicken-scheme program accepts a few additional options:

 chicken-scheme -list

Lists the contents of the cache directory

 chicken-scheme -purge

Deletes all files in the cache directory. Compiled programs will be collected it here and should be periodically purged. This doesn't change the behaviour of existing scripts, they simply have to be recompiled, which should happen on first use.

Invoking chicken-scheme with no arguments will simply start csi(1), the CHICKEN interpreter.

This extension needs the md5sum(1) program (or md5(1) on Mac OS X).

You can add additional command-line options by preceding the code with special comments, like this:

 #!/usr/bin/env chicken-scheme
 ;;; AUTOCOMPILE: -X my-reader-extension -O5
 ...

chicken-scheme will detect "AUTOCOMPILE" specifications beginning in the second source line of the file, up to the first line that does not contain such a specification. Specifically, lines matching the following regular expression will be detected:

 ^ *;[ ;]*AUTOCOMPILE:

Environment variables

A few environment variables allow customization of the autocompilation mechanism:

 HOME

Your home directory that will contain the cache (the latter is created automatically, if it doesn't exist).

 CHICKEN_SCHEME_DEBUG

If set, show progress information during the compilation.

 CHICKEN_SCHEME_OPTIONS

Options passed to csc(1). The default options are -O2.

 CHICKEN_SCHEME_HOOK

The name of a program to be invoked when compiling a script. When a program must be compiled, the hook is invoked as a shell command:

 $CHICKEN_SCHEME_HOOK start SOURCEFILE ERRORFILE

ERRORFILE will receive compiler output and error-messages.

After the compilation, the hook is called as

 $CHICKEN_SCHEME_HOOK end SOURCEFILE ERRORFILE

When the compilation fails, the hook is invoked as

 $CHICKEN_SCHEME_HOOK fail SOURCEFILE ERRORFILE

License

 
Copyright (c) 2009-2012, Felix L. Winkelmann

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 
 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 
 Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors
   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
   software without specific prior written permission. 

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
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Version history
1.0
added detection of "AUTOCOMPILE:" comment lines in file header
0.9
fixed NetBSD-specific option to md5 [thanks to Peter Bex]
0.7
added regex dependency
0.6
uses md5(3) program on NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Dragonfly
0.5
added missing import
0.2
fixed stupid typo in setup script; hacked around problem with srfi-13 syntax reexport
0.1
initial release