Compile on Ubuntu.

implementations/C/Makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 OBJS=joy.o keywords.o definitions.o linenoise.o
 
-LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -lgc -lgmp
+LDFLAGS= -Wl,--no-as-needed -L/usr/local/lib -lgc -lgmp
 
 # Hold my hand, in fact, hold both of them, and pat my head too please.
 CFLAGS = -ansi -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic -Wstrict-overflow -fno-strict-aliasing -pedantic-errors

implementations/C/README.md

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-Thun in C
+# Thun in C
----------------
 
 This is my first attempt to write C in many years, I hope it's not too
-embarassing.
+embarrassing.
 
 I use Gperf to create a static wordlist.  This make word lookup very
 efficient, but there's no way currently to add definitions at runtime.
@@ -11,4 +10,13 @@ There's a janky script *convert\_defs.py* that generates *definitions.c*,
 *definitions.h*, and *KEYWORDS.txt* from the *defs.txt* file.  I would
 like to replace the dependency on Python with, say, Awk or something.
 
+## Dependencies
 
+- python
+- gperf
+- gmake
+- boehm-gc
+- gmp
+
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+    sudo apt install gperf 

implementations/C/notes

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ VList instead of singly-linked list.)  But I want to tackle efficiency by
 compilation, and write the compiler(s) in Prolog.  I think that avoids
 complexity compared to intricating the guts of the interpreter by hand,
 and moves the unavoidable complexity into formal statements of logic that
-can be evaulated by machine (aka Prolog.)
+can be evaluated by machine (aka Prolog.)
 
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 neq [true] [false] [true] cmp
  le [false] [true] [true] cmp
  ge [true] [true] [false] cmp
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+Argh!  That was brutal.
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+I hate staring at the thing that SHOULD work and it just fucking doesn't work.
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+Why?  Because some fuck-wit somewhere decided to fuck up how things have always been done.
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+https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12734161/how-to-use-boehm-garbage-collector-in-ubuntu-12-04
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+> To answer my own question: actually, the Boehm GC library still works the same way as it used to in 12.04.  The problem is that GCC doesn't! GCC has started to default to --as-needed, and it drops -lgc completely if it is at the beginning of the line. This is a very major change!!
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+> Solution is to move -lgc to the end:
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+> gcc test.c -lgc
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+Goddamnit!