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| 1 | title: i finally learned how to make chicken scheme modules lol |
| 2 | |
| 3 | 2023-07-29 22:22 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | i put off learning how to make chicken scheme modules since i got into chicken |
| 6 | scheme because the examples on the docs never worked for me. i think this was |
| 7 | because, from the best of my memory, i was trying to interpret a scheme file |
| 8 | that imported a module i made, but i hadn't generated the object files for the |
| 9 | imported module. it kind of sucks that you have to do this, but i'm all for |
| 10 | fucking around and finding out, so i didn't mind too much, and proceeded to |
| 11 | write a makefile to automate some of this, and clean up the generated object |
| 12 | files after compilation completed. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | for example, if you have a `utils.scm` file, which is a module, you need to |
| 15 | first generate an object file for it by doing this: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ``` |
| 18 | csc -c -static -J src/utils.scm -unit utils -o utils.o |
| 19 | ``` |
| 20 | |
| 21 | then you can do the whole (import utils), and use shit from that. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | i also found it weird that my main file that is importing things had to be a |
| 24 | module too. oh well i guess. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | this kind of led me to converting all of my module-like files, which were just |
| 27 | imported to my main files using includes (lol), to actual scheme modules. it |
| 28 | ended up being a little overkill makefile-wise to have separate |
| 29 | `generate-posts-page`, `generate-html`, and `generate-rss` modules, so i decided |
| 30 | to combine them all into a generate.scm file. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | anyway, this post is mostly a "yay" post because chicken scheme modules always |
| 33 | got the best of me. funnily enough though, i'm actually rewriting my website |
| 34 | generator in fennel (again), so there wasn't much point in me converting all my |
| 35 | scheme shit to module, except for the fun learning part of it. hmmmm i actually |
| 36 | think i already mentioned in my last blog post that i'm starting another website |
| 37 | generator in fennel... i'm too lazy to look so i'll just leave these words here |
| 38 | for you to read lol. i'm mainly doing it in fennel because i like how small |
| 39 | fennel is, and i like how clean the creation of modules feels. plus, i miss just |
| 40 | using an interpreted language. like, i mean, i can interpret chicken scheme |
| 41 | code, i just like using its compile feature too much, so i mostly just use |
| 42 | that. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | you can check out the `Makefile` and `src/generate.scm` file on this website's |
| 45 | [https://git.m455.casa/m455.casa/html/files.html|source] if you are curious |
| 46 | about how i generate object files for modules, and how i compile static binaries |
| 47 | for my website generator and local web server in chicken scheme. |
| 48 | |