# The lang/gerbil port

## gerbil-0.16p1 – dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming

## Description

    Gerbil is an opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for Systems
    Programming, with a state of the art macro and module system on top of
    the Gambit runtime.

    The macro system is based on quote-syntax, and provides the full
    meta-syntactic tower with a native implementation of syntax-case. It
    also provides a full-blown module system, similar to PLT Scheme's
    (sorry, Racket) modules. The main difference from Racket is that
    Gerbil modules are single instantiation, supporting high performance
    ahead of time compilation and compiled macros.

WWW: https://cons.io/

Only for arches
  aarch64 aarch64 alpha amd64 amd64 arm arm hppa i386 i386 mips64 mips64 mips64el mips64el powerpc powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64 riscv64 riscv64 sparc64
Broken
  segmentation fault with gambit 4.9.4 on powerpc64: gsc spins during build
Categories:
  lang

## Library dependencies

- databases/sqlite3
- textproc/libxml

## Build dependencies

- lang/gambit

## Run dependencies

- devel/git
- lang/gambit