Re: Help with a GraalVM package?

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 27 octobre 2021 06:15:27 GMT-04:00, Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> a 
écrit :
>Hi Gary,
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck in building a package definition for GraalVM?
>>
>> Https://www.graalvm.org/
>
>Probably not, but it can be you, or maybe me in the near future.
>
>> I'm a Clojure programmer in my day job, and one of the areas I work in
>> Is (open source) high performance wildland fire modeling. GraalVM could
>> Really help me speed up my existing OpenJDK-based models as well as help
>> Me build other GraalVM-dependent Guix packages like the Clojure linter,
>> Clj-kondo.
>>
>> Any help with this task (or a pointer to a channel with a working
>> Package definition) would be much appreciated.
>>
>
>The guix documentation has a good explanation about how to make packages, but
>this one might be complex.
>
>I searched a little bit and I didn't find any guide on how to build GraalVM
>itself, if you can find me one I can try to guide you in making the package
>or at least we could evaluate how hard is it.
>
>Cheers,
>Ekaitz
>

Hi,

This is what I found: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/vm/README.md

That info is not easy to find. Why hide it in a subdirectory?… Also, I have no 
idea what this mx thing is.