unable to build from scratch.

[horos22reg]

All,

I'm trying my level best to build this from scratch. The python module for this does not function on alpine because alpine is a musl-based system and hence incompatible- but I'll be d***d if I can actually build it.

I've:

1. downloaded and installed version 2.4.4 of sbcl
2. cloned https://github.com/GrammaTech/sel.git
3. installed quicklisp.lisp via 'curl -o /tmp/ql.lisp http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp; sbcl --no-sysinit --no-userinit --load /tmp/ql.lisp --eval '(quicklisp-quickstart:install :path "~/quicklisp"}' --eval '(ql:add-to-init-file)' --quit
4. export quicklisp via 'export QUICK_LISP=/root/.quicklisp'
5. run inside of /root/sel - make all

but this gives me:

:LOCAL-NICKNAMES fell through ECASE expression

which to me says that the quicklisp version that I have does not support local-nicknames, or there is some other error with the lisp compilation.

Is there a list of known, working versions here that I could use in compiling this? I didn't see anything obvious in the sel distribution.

[horos22reg]

ok here's the best I could do. It compiles successfully here, but the Makefile doesn't actually make a python distribution.
In short, ASDF 3.3.6 needs to be installed on top of the current quicklisp distribution, and you need to make a small patch to the directory.lisp file.

apk add --no-cache sbcl git build-base tree-sitter-cli python3 py3-pip build-base git curl sbcl ca-certificates python3 gcc python3-dev musl-dev ca-certificates openssl bash gcc python3-dev musl-dev linux-headers libffi libffi-dev tree-sitter-cli tree-sitter-dev

# build_sel.sh
# 
# One-shot builder for GrammaTech SEL on Alpine that
#   1. installs Quicklisp,
#   2. drops-in ASDF 3.3.6 (+ UIOP) without touching SBCL’s core,
#   3. removes “--no-userinit” so our ~/.sbclrc is honoured,
#   4. patches the recompute-subroot-mapping call that breaks the build,
#   5. runs `make all`.
#
# Usage (inside a fresh container, as root):
#   chmod +x build_sel.sh
#   ./build_sel.sh
#
set -euo pipefail

### 0 ▸ basic tooling (merge duplicates to keep the image lean)
apk add --no-cache \
    sbcl git curl bash tree-sitter-cli build-base linux-headers \
    python3 py3-pip ca-certificates openssl musl-dev

###############################################################################
### 1 ▸ Quicklisp bootstrap
###############################################################################
rm -rf /root/quicklisp
curl -o /tmp/ql.lisp http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
sbcl --no-sysinit --no-userinit \
     --load /tmp/ql.lisp \
     --eval '(quicklisp-quickstart:install :path "/root/quicklisp")' \
     --eval '(ql:add-to-init-file)' \
     --quit
export QUICK_LISP=/root/quicklisp   # picked up by SEL’s Makefiles

###############################################################################
### 2 ▸ Drop-in ASDF 3.3.6 
###############################################################################
ASDF_DIR=/root/.local/share/common-lisp/asdf
mkdir -p "$ASDF_DIR"
cd $ASDF_DIR
wget https://asdf.common-lisp.dev/archives/asdf-3.3.6.tar.gz -O /root/asdf-3.3.6.tar.gz
tar xvzf /root/asdf-3.3.6.tar.gz
cd asdf-3.3.6; make

cd /root

###############################################################################
### 3 ▸ ~/.sbclrc – load new ASDF *before* Quicklisp
###############################################################################
cat >/root/.sbclrc <<'EOF'
(load #P"/root/.local/share/common-lisp/asdf/asdf-3.3.6/build/asdf.lisp") ; ← ASDF 3.3.6
(load #P"/root/quicklisp/setup.lisp")                    ; Quicklisp
EOF

###############################################################################
### 4 ▸ Clone SEL and patch build scripts
###############################################################################
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/GrammaTech/sel.git || true
cd sel
git submodule update --init --recursive

# 4.a  Allow ~/.sbclrc to run by dropping ‘--no-userinit’
find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/--no-userinit//g' {} +

# 4.b  Hot-patch the missing symbol (until upstream fixes API drift)
sed -i \
  's,attrs:recompute-subroot-mapping,attrs::recompute-subroot-mapping,' \
  `find /root -name directory.lisp | grep software`

###############################################################################
### 5 ▸ Build
###############################################################################
make all

echo "✔ SEL build complete – ASDF version is now:"
sbcl --eval '(format t "~&→ ASDF ~A~%" (asdf:asdf-version))' --quit

[horos22reg]

ok.. one more thing.. it looks like the sel repo looks like it doesn't have the full bindings to make the python package here.

There are a bunch of .so files that it comes with, so you see:

asts/tree-sitter-bash.so
asts/tree-sitter-python.so

etc but these aren't built with the asts package. There has GOT to be a script which generates this. Where is it?

Either that or is there a musl compatible binary that works with this? I only see a package linking with glibc..

[ruricolist]

I think the script you're looking for is tools/tree-sitter-install.sh.