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GNU Guile

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
The GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions.

Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS, R6RS, and R7RS Scheme standards, Guile includes full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, powerful string processing, and HTTP client and server implementations.

Guile can run interactively, as a script interpreter, and as a Scheme compiler to VM bytecode. It is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter/VM. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand.

Guile's VM

Guile contains an efficient compiler and virtual machine. It can be used out of the box to write programs in Scheme, or can easily be integrated with C and C++ programs.

Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, and the official extension language of the GNU project.

IRC general channel

irc://irc.libera.chat/guile

This is a GNU package:guile

Download

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.8.tar.gz

version 3.0.8 (stable)
released on 11 February 2022

OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.8.tar.gz.sig

User level

Advanced

VCS Checkout

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guile.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:scheme
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:Windows
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Software-development:programming-language
• Use:library
• Use:software-development

Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

License

GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

11 February 2022

Notes

Applies to part: Guile-Readline https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/guile-readline/readline.c

License

LGPLv3orlater

Verified by

Genium

Verified on

11 February 2022

Notes

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/COPYING.LESSER

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Andy Wingo	Maintainer
Ludovic Courtès	Co-maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Bug reports	E-mail	bug-guile@gnu.org
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-sources/
Savannah	VCS Repository Webview	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/
FTP	Download	https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-commits/
Bug database	Bug Tracking	http://debbugs.gnu.org/guile
Savannah	Developer	https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guile/
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guile-2.2
Libraries	General	https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/libraries/
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel-internal/
FTP	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/guile/
FTP	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guile-3.0
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel/
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user/
FTP	General	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/guile/
Wikidata	General	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1486208
Forge	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	readline (for command line editing)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 11 February 2022.

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