Kawa, the Java-based Scheme system

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### Compiling Scheme to a native executable

You can compile your Scheme program to native code using GCJ, as long as you have built Kawa using GCJ.

First, you need to compile the Scheme code to a set of `.class` files; see Files compilation.

         kawa --main -C myprog.scm

Then to create an executable `myprog` do:

         gckawa --main=myprog myprog*.class -o myprog

The `gckawa` is a simple shell script that calls `gcj`. The reason for the wildcard in `myprog*.class` is that sometimes Kawa will generate some helper classes in addition to `myprog.class`. The `--main` option tell `gcj` which class contains the `main` method it should use. The `-o` option names the resulting executable program. The `-lkawa` option tells the linker it should link with the kawa shared library, and the `-L$PREFIX/bin` option tells the linker where it can find that library.