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(post :title "Projects"
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(p [Here are a couple of ongoing projects in the bootstrappable builds community.
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If you're interested in working on any of these projects please ,(anchor "contact us" "/who.html").])
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(h2 [Growing a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU system])
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(p [,(anchor "Stage0"
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"http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0")
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starts with just a 280byte Hex monitor and builds up the infrastructure required to start some serious software development.
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With zero external dependencies, with the most painful work already done and real langauges such as assembly, forth and garbage collected lisp already implemented])
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(p [Demonstrate some old school skill, by writting a new compiler or interpreter or help with various support tasks required to keep this project on track.
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Or if low level programming isn't for you, help bridge the gap between our goal and where we are by writing low dependency software in the high level language of your choice that might be easier for us to bootstrap.])
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(p [Even if contributing to it isn't for you, if you could take 7 minutes to verify what already exists on whatever weird operating system or hardware you have; we would love to hear about your results.])
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(h2 [Working towards a source-based bootstrapping path to a GNU+Linux system])
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(p [A distsribution has to start from bootstrap binaries that are taken for granted.
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,(anchor "Learn more about how we reduce the size of the binary seeds!" "/projects/mes.html")])
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(h2 [Maintaining GCC version 4.7])
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(p [The C and C++ compilers of the GNU Compiler Collection make up the foundation of many free software distributions.
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Current versions of GCC are written in C++, which means that a C++ compiler is needed to build it from source.
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GCC 4.7 was the last version of the collection that could be built with a plain C compiler, a much simpler task.])
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(p [We propose to collectively maintain a subset of GCC 4.7 to ensure that we can build the foundation of free software
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distributions starting with a simple C compiler (such as tinyCC, pcc, etc).])
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(h2 [From C++ to the world of Java])
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(p [The Java Development Kit (JDK) is written in Java, so you
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need a JDK to build a JDK.
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,(anchor "Learn more about how we cut the cycle!" "/projects/java.html")])
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(h2 [Bootstrapping the rest of the Java ecosystem])
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(p [In the Java world there are a lot of tools from testing frameworks
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like JUnit to build tools like Maven and Gradle that have self dependencies.
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Bootstrapping these is an ongoing effort. To see the current status and
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work to be done have a look at ,(anchor "Bootstrapping Java Tools"
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"/projects/java-tools.html")])
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(h2 [Boostrapping JVM languages])
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(p [The Java Virtual Machine runs several other languages besides java,
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all of them with their own tools and ecosystem. The most prominent ones
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are Groovy, Clojure, Scala and Kotlin. Some of these are already
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bootstrapped, but this is an ongoing effort. To see the current status
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and work to be done have a look at ,(anchor "Bootstrapping JVM languages"
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"/projects/jvm-languages.scm")])
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(h2 [Bootstrapping GHC with Hugs])
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(p [The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is the most popular Haskell compiler.
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It is written in Haskell and since the first public release requires GHC to build newer versions of the compiler.
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It might be possible to build a first GHC from source with the Hugs interpreter and an older version of GHC.
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,(anchor "This blog post describes a first attempt"
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"http://elephly.net/posts/2017-01-09-bootstrapping-haskell-part-1.html")
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of this project.])))
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