Hi, I was doing a small experiment with Clojure and GraalVM and ended with this minimal reproduction case of an incompatibility between Clojure's `eval` and GraalVM's native-image tool (the program that compiles a JVM program to a native executable, based on the GraalVM's SubstrateVM compiler).
Here's the Clojure program: (ns test-cli.main (:gen-class)) (set! *warn-on-reflection* true) (defn -main "I don't do a whole lot ... yet." [& args] (println (+ 1 1)) ;; trick to force loading clojure.lang.Numbers, not working (eval (read-string "(+ 1 1)"))) Using Clojure 1.9.0 and GraalVM version 1.0.0-rc9. When I compile it with the option "--report-unsupported-elements-at-runtime" (which gives a more precised error message), here's the output when I try executing the resulting executable: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: clojure.lang.Numbers, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:0:0) at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:287) at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:84) at java.lang.RuntimeException.<init>(RuntimeException.java:80) at clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException.<init>(Compiler.java:6804) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:7010) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6773) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6729) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:6998) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6773) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6729) at clojure.lang.Compiler$BodyExpr$Parser.parse(Compiler.java:6100) at clojure.lang.Compiler$FnMethod.parse(Compiler.java:5460) at clojure.lang.Compiler$FnExpr.parse(Compiler.java:4022) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:7001) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6773) at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:7059) at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:7025) at clojure.core$eval.invokeStatic(core.clj:3206) at test_cli.main$_main.invokeStatic(main.clj:7) at test_cli.main$_main.doInvoke(main.clj:7) at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:397) at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:152) at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:132) at test_cli.main.main(Unknown Source) at com.oracle.svm.core.JavaMainWrapper.run(JavaMainWrapper.java:164) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: clojure.lang.Numbers at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:287) at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:84) at java.lang.ReflectiveOperationException.<init>(ReflectiveOperationException.java:75) at java.lang.ClassNotFoundException.<init>(ClassNotFoundException.java:82) at com.oracle.svm.core.hub.ClassForNameSupport.forName(ClassForNameSupport.java:51) at com.oracle.svm.core.hub.DynamicHub.forName(DynamicHub.java:1036) at clojure.lang.RT.classForName(RT.java:2204) at clojure.lang.RT.classForNameNonLoading(RT.java:2217) at clojure.lang.Compiler$HostExpr.maybeClass(Compiler.java:1041) at clojure.lang.Compiler$HostExpr$Parser.parse(Compiler.java:982) at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:7003) ... 20 more I'm no expert in Java/JVM and would like to understand the problem. According to the SubstrateVM documentation (https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/LIMITATIONS.md) it can't compile Dynamic Class Loading/Unloading. Is Clojure's `eval` doing such dynamic loading? Or doing something else not supported by SubstrateVM as said in the documentation? Thanks *a lot* in advance for you answers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.