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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:42:17 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>    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:
>
>    mm -r prog             # (via native code)
>    mm -i prog             # (interpreted)
>
>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.