Thomas Köppe

> I don't seem to be getting any outputs: What's the return status? And is there a resulting output file? I'm not sure what's going on, since there aren't any...

This sounds like you don't have a properly set up compiler toolchain. Can you first try getting even a simple hello-world binary built with Bazel?

I think Bazel lets you specify the name of the Python binary, check the docs?

Try `--python_path` (https://bazel.build/reference/command-line-reference), though that's deprecated and I don't know what the recommended way is.

I'm afraid I don't have an M1 development environment and can't test that. I don't know why building from source on an M1 would result in an x86_64 binary, though;...

Did you run that on an actual M1 machine? That's very odd -- maybe that's a bug in the `packaging` module? Could you directly run the packaging query for the...

Interesting. That looks like a bug in `packaging` for sure. Would you perhaps mind reporting that? I don't know what the correct SOABI tag should be. If you can find...

Great! Could you check the SOABI tag reported by `packaging` again for the corrected Python setup?

Re 2 I think we want the modes to be exactly as they are in the ROMs, no hacks. I have not thought about 1. Can you maybe enumerate the...

Would it help to only parse integer constants lazily? That is, just validate them lexically and store the string data for later, and only actually parse it when needed --...