Re: Python recompile

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:18:49 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> gabbled:

There /is/ no build system speak of. Compiling any program even of 100 modules is this invocation:
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   mm prog                # prog.m is the lead module

So whats the equivalent of fork() in your language then and how does it work
on Windows?

Or you can forget about building completely, and just run direct from source code:
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   mm -r prog             # (via native code)
   mm -i prog             # (interpreted)
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If there's a simpler way to compile or run source code, I'd like to know what it is!

python3 <filename>

C is a little different because the language doesn't allow for automatic discovery of modules. But the extra info needed is simple: a list of files.

Finding dynamic libraries is job of the linker and loader, not the C compiler
or the language itself. For static libraries yes it does need to search but the
only way to "automatically" discover them if you don't have a default list of directories to scan - which C/C++ compilers do - is to scan the whole filesystem which on a machine with a large disk could take a very long time
and wouldn't make you popular if its a heavily used server.