7 Porting ECL
To port ECL to a new architecture, the following steps are required:
- Ensure that the GNU Multiprecision library supports this machine.
- Ensure that the Boehm-Weiser garbage collector is supported by that
architecture. Alternatively, port ECL's own garbage collector
src/c/alloc.d and src/c/gbc.d to that platform.
- Fix src/aclocal.in, src/h/ecl.h and src/h/ecl-cmp.h
so that they supply flags for the new host machine.
- Fix the machine dependent code in src/c/. The most critical
parts are in the unix* and thread* files.
- Compile as in any other platform.
- Run the tests and compare to the results of other platforms.