How to use Quicklisp with JSCL?

[VitoVan]

I have learned that I can use Quicklisp with JSCL as long as I only use it in compile-time, that is: using Macros.

The first use case I saw is here:

https://github.com/nilesr/jscl-react/blob/master/emoji-search/filter-emoji.lisp#L3

This code will compile and run successfully with jscl:compile-application, which is good.

I have also made something using Quicklisp in macros and it works well.

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But, this is true ONLY when I do not expose anything to the REPL.

Whenever I tried to use Quicklisp, even only inside macros, and not exporting it, there will be runtime error.

e.g.,

main.lisp

(eval-when (:compile-toplevel)
  (ql:quickload 'str))

(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
  (cl:defpackage :c
    (:use cl)
    (:export
     :hello))
  (in-package :c))

(defmacro def-hello (name)
  (let ((message (str:concat name ", I am Jack.")))
    `(defun hello ()
       (#j:console:log ,message))))

(def-hello "Bob")

(in-package :cl-user)

bundle it (bundle.lisp taken from here #443 (comment)):

sbcl --load jscl.lisp --eval '(jscl:bootstrap)' --load bundle.lisp --eval '(bundle-application (list "main.lisp") "main.js")' --eval '(quit)'

And then in the browser:

Uncaught No package STR

I thought macros were the runtime thing, so there won't be any problem? Still digging it.

Forgive me, I have to do a dumb-ass ping to your awesome people: @mmontone @nilesr

[nilesr]

I suspect the problem is in that bundle-application macro. I don't know exactly what it's doing, but it is outputting a MASSIVE amount of code. For your 18 line lisp file, it outputs a 46'904 line javascript file. But when using (jscl:compile-application) it outputs just 49 lines of javascript. That emoji picker embeds javascript code to put each emoji in a vector multiple times over (see this image) and is still only 2389 lines.

If you inspect that massive 46k line file, it does contain your compiled string correctly, but appears to also have a copy of the macro definition for some reason, which it is expanding and executing instead:

I don't know enough about what bundle-application is doing to help.

[VitoVan]

Ah, Thank you Niles.

You are right, it is indeed the problem of bundle-application, maybe I need to give it a close observation and try to do some improvement.

I don't know enough about what bundle-application is doing to help.

I was looking for a way to expose my functions to the REPL, bundle-application is the only option I have found.