** Building Building GCCPY is fairly confsing to most people who haven't built GCC before:
YOU CANNOT build GCC within the same directory of the sources!
$ apt-get install bison flex build-essential
Then to compile:
$ git clone ... $ cd gccpy $ ./contrib/download_prerequisites # optional $ mkdir gccpy-build $ cd gccpy-build $ ../configure --prefix=/opt/gccpy \ --enable-languages=python \ --disable-multilib \ --disable-bootstrap $ make $ cd -
*** Usage
For my development sessions i generally pass:
$ gccpy -fdump-tree-gimple -fpy-dump-dot -fpy-gen-main -fpy-optimize -O0 -g test.py -o test
Options:
-fpy-gen-main Python has no explicit main method so we require at compile time for the user to explicitly say where the main method should be compiled in.
-fpy-dump-dot Dumps out the textural output of the DOT IL
-fpy-optimize Experimental optimizers for Python at the DOT IL level constant folding and propagation to some extend with data-flow analysis could be implemented.
-fdump-tree-gimple Dumps the textural output of the code generated for the GCC middle-end.
You can use all normal GCC options -O2 -g -mtune= -march= etc...
** Status
Very must still serves as a proof of concept but most of the core principles are implemented and work fairly well
** Major Projects
*** Garbage collector We need one.
*** Port Python stdlib Port the python stdlib and figure out if we want to implement modules as static libraries or shared libraries.
*** Multi-core Implement threading