Tcl2CL: Tcl/Tk to Common Lisp Transpiler

Tcl2CL — Tcl/Tk to Common Lisp Transpiler

Read a Tcl/Tk script and convert it to a Common Lisp script.

Dependencies

• A Common Lisp compiler (SBCL preferred)
  • I am trying to write this in a portable way (as this is mostly a DSL), so any compiler may work.
• ASDF (Another System Definition Facility)
  • This is the build tool
  • It does *NOT* download dependencies for you!
• Quicklisp
  • This is the package management tool for Common Lisp.
  • Quicklisp plugs into ASDF to download and load/build the source for you.
• UIOP (Utilities for Implementation and OS Portability)
• Alexandria
• Log4CL
  • Provides structured logging facilities.
• ~lisp-unit2~
  • Only needed for testing!

Building

Tcl2CL builds using the standard ASDF build system.

Building on the REPL

Make sure ASDF is capable of finding your copy of Tcl2CL.

1. (asdf:compile-system :tcl2cl)

If you want to force a rebuild, ASDF supports that too. (asdf:compile-system :tcl2cl :force t).

Testing

Tcl2CL uses lisp-unit2 for its unit testing system.

Testing on the REPL

Make sure ASDF if capable of finding your copy of Tcl2CL and lisp-unit2.

• (asdf:test-system :tcl2cl)
• (lisp-unit2:run-tests :package :tcl2cl/tests)

Why?

I personally felt this when specialty connection operators were required to be defined as experimental in chisel3; operators which I needed to connect hardware together.