+Brief Installation Instructions ===========================================
+
To build Guile on unix, there are two basic steps:
- 1. Configure the package by running the configure script.
- 2. Build the package by running make.
+ 1. Type "./configure", to configure the package for your system.
+ 2. Type "make", to build the package.
Generic instructions for configuring and compiling GNU distributions
-are included below. Here is an illustration of commands that might be
-used to build Guile. The voluminous output of the commands is not shown.
+are included below. For Guile, you might type the commands below.
+Their voluminous output is not shown.
+
+ $ tar xvfz guile-970416.tar.gz # unpack the sources
+ $ cd guile-970416
+ $ ./configure # adapt Guile to your system
+ $ make # compile Guile
+ $ make install # install in the usual places
- % tar xvf guile-snap.tar.gz # unpack the sources
- % cd guile-snap
- % ./configure
- % make
+(Note: under SunOS 4.1, you may need to say ./configure --disable-shared;
+Guile's shared library support for that systems seems to be confused.)
+
+What You Get ==============================================================
The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts Guile to
compile and run on it.
The `make' command builds several things:
- An executable file `guile/guile', which is an interactive shell for
talking with the Guile Scheme interpreter.
-- An object library `guile/libguile.a', containing the Guile Scheme
+- An object library `libguile/.libs/libguile.a', containing the Guile Scheme
interpreter, ready to be linked into your programs.
-- An object library `gtcltk-lib/libgtcltk.a', containing a simple
- interface between Guile and Tcl/Tk. This is only built if the
- configure script notices that you have the appropriate version of
- Tcl/Tk installed on your system already. If it is installed, `make'
- will automatically include Tcl/Tk and the interface in the guile
- shell. If the interface were documented, we'd include a pointer to
- it here.
To install Guile, type `make install'. This installs the executable
and libraries mentioned above, as well as Guile's header files and
Scheme libraries.
+Make also builds shared libraries, on systems that support them.
+Because of the nature of shared libraries, before linking against
+them, you should probably install them; `make install' takes care of
+this.
+
+
+Flags Accepted by Configure ===============================================
+
+If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine
+your system and set things up appropriately. However, there are a few
+switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances.
+
+--enable-maintainer-mode --- If you have automake, autoconf, and
+libtool installed on your system, this switch causes configure to
+generate Makefiles which know how to automatically regenerate
+configure scripts, makefiles, and headers, when they are out of date.
+The README file says which versions of those tools you will need.
+
+--with-threads --- Build a Guile executable and library that supports
+cooperative threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build
+and install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library,
+libqt.a, which you will need to link into your programs after
+libguile.a. That is, you should pass the switches -lguile -qt to your
+linker.
+
+Coop threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are, they will
+be enabled by default. The interaction with blocking I/O is pretty ad
+hoc at the moment. In our experience, bugs in the thread support do
+not affect you if you don't actually use threads.
+
+--enable-dynamic-linking --- Build a Guile executable and library
+providing Scheme functions which can load a shared library and
+initialize it, perhaps thereby adding new functions to Guile. This
+feature is not yet thoroughly tested; once it is, it will be enabled
+by default. This option has no effect on systems that do not support
+shared libraries.
+
+--disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries. Normally, Guile
+will build shared libraries if your system supports them. Guile
+always builds static libraries.
+
+
+Using Guile Without Installing It =========================================
+
If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment
variable `SCHEME_LOAD_PATH' to a colon-separated list of directories,
including the directory containing this INSTALL file. For example, if
if you're using CSH or one of its variants.
- Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages
- ==========================================================
-
+Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages ================
To compile this package:
HCoop / bpt / guile.git / blobdiff