Plojure

Plojure is a playground for Lisp, Python, and x86_64 assembly experiments. The current hybrid branch also contains a macOS porting path for the FASM examples.

The target workflow on macOS is intentionally boring:

fasm fasm/basic/fib.asm
./fasm/basic/fib

No Docker command in the hot path, no exec format error, no Linux ELF binary pretending to be a macOS program.

macOS FASM Setup

Install the companion fasm shim from kroq86/fasm-mac:

git clone https://github.com/kroq86/fasm-mac
cd fasm-mac
./install.sh
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

The installed command is named fasm.

On Apple Silicon it produces x86_64 Mach-O binaries, so Rosetta is required:

arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/true

If that fails:

softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Standalone Examples

These examples now use fasm/core/platform.inc instead of hardcoded Linux syscall numbers:

fasm fasm/basic/fib.asm
./fasm/basic/fib

fasm fasm/basic/arg.asm
./fasm/basic/arg fasm/basic/lol.txt

cd fasm/basic
fasm mycat.asm
./mycat

cd ../advanced/binary_search
fasm bin_s.asm
./bin_s

Expected behavior:

• fib.asm prints Fibonacci values.
• arg.asm prints the file passed as argv[1].
• mycat.asm prints fasm/basic/lol.txt.
• bin_s.asm prints the found index.

Shared Library Examples

Simple C/Python native-library examples can now build .dylib files on macOS:

cd fasm/advanced/add
./run.sh

cd ../binary_search/wrapper
./run.sh

cd ../../oop_game
./build.sh

The build path is:

fasm --emit=macho-obj add.asm add.o
clang -arch x86_64 -dynamiclib wrapper.c add.o -o mylib.dylib

On Apple Silicon, Python ctypes needs an x86_64/Rosetta Python to load these libraries. The default Homebrew Python is usually arm64 and cannot load an x86_64 .dylib.

Vector DB

projects/vector-db now looks for .dylib on Darwin and .so on Linux. The macOS build path is:

cd projects/vector-db
fasm --emit=macho-obj assembly/dot_product.asm dot_product.o
clang -arch x86_64 -dynamiclib dot_product.o assembly/wrapper.c -o dot_product.dylib

If the native library cannot be loaded, the Python code keeps the existing fallback behavior where available.

What Still Is Not Done

• fasm classic itself still has no upstream-style format Mach-O formatter.
• Native arm64 assembly output is not part of this port.
• The Mach-O object converter rejects ELF relocations for now.
• Coroutines are intentionally left for a later pass because they switch stacks manually and cross Python callback boundaries.
• Python examples on Apple Silicon need an x86_64 Python runtime if they load x86_64 .dylib files.

Original Lisp Interpreter

The repository also contains a small Lisp interpreter:

python projects/lisp-interpreter/main.py projects/lisp-interpreter/program.lisp

It supports recursive functions, lambda expressions, arithmetic, conditionals, and function calls.