!!! This is not a Guile release; it is a source tree retrieved via
anonymous CVS or as a nightly snapshot at some random time after the
-Guile 1.4 release. If this were a Guile release, you would not see
+Guile 1.6 release. If this were a Guile release, you would not see
this message. !!! [fixme: zonk on release]
This is a 1.7 development version of Guile, Project GNU's extension
as well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of
languages.
-Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.5.* are unstable
+Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.7.* are unstable
development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions.
This has been the case since the 1.3.* series.
treatment. If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be
grateful.
-SunOS 4.1: Guile's shared library support seems to be confused, but
- hey; shared libraries are confusing. You may need to configure
- Guile with a command like:
- ./configure --disable-shared
- For more information on `--disable-shared', see below, "Flags
- Accepted by Configure".
-
-HP/UX: GCC 2.7.2 (and maybe other versions) have trouble creating
- shared libraries if they depend on any non-shared libraries. GCC
- seems to have other problems as well. To work around this, we
- suggest you configure Guile to use the system's C compiler:
- CC=cc ./configure
-
-NetBSD: Perry Metzger says, "Guile will build under NetBSD only using
- gmake -- the native make will not work. (gmake is in our package
- system, so this will not be a problem when we packagize 1.3.)"
-
+ <none yet listed>
Guile specific flags Accepted by Configure =================================
--with-threads --- Build with thread support
- 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,
- libqthreads, which you will need to link into your programs after
- libguile. When you use `guile-config', you will pick up all
- neccessary linker flags automatically.
-
- Cooperative 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.
-
---with-modules --- Specify statically linked `modules'
+ Build a Guile executable and library that supports multi-threading.
- Guile can dynamically load `plugin modules' during runtime, using
- facilities provided by libtool. Not all platforms support this,
- however. On these platforms, you can statically link the plugin
- modules into libguile when Guile itself is built. XXX - how does
- one specify the modules?
+ The default is to enable threading support when your operating
+ system offsers 'POSIX threads'. When you do not want threading, use
+ `--without-threads'.
--enable-deprecated=LEVEL
Deprecated features are considered harmful; using them is likely a
bug. See below for the related notion of `discouraged' features,
- which are OK but have fallen out of favour.
+ which are OK but have fallen out of favor.
See the file NEWS for a list of features that are currently
deprecated. Each entry will also tell you what you should replace
Normally, both static and shared libraries will be built if your
system supports them.
-
--enable-debug-freelist --- Enable freelist debugging.
- This enables a debugging version of SCM_NEWCELL(), and also
- registers an extra primitive, the setter
+ This enables a debugging version of scm_cell and scm_double_cell,
+ and also registers an extra primitive, the setter
`gc-set-debug-check-freelist!'.
Configure with the --enable-debug-freelist option to enable the
down the interpreter dramatically, so the setter should be used to
turn on this extra processing only when necessary.
-
--enable-debug-malloc --- Enable malloc debugging.
- Include code for debugging of calls to scm_must_malloc/realloc/free.
-
- Checks that
+ Include code for debugging of calls to scm_malloc, scm_realloc, etc.
- 1. objects freed by scm_must_free has been mallocated by scm_must_malloc
- 2. objects reallocated by scm_must_realloc has been allocated by
- scm_must_malloc
- 3. reallocated objects are reallocated with the same what string
-
- But, most importantly, it records the number of allocated objects of
- each kind. This is useful when searching for memory leaks.
+ It records the number of allocated objects of each kind. This is
+ useful when searching for memory leaks.
A Guile compiled with this option provides the primitive
`malloc-stats' which returns an alist with pairs of kind and the
number of objects of that kind.
-
--enable-guile-debug --- Include internal debugging functions
--disable-arrays --- omit array and uniform array support
--disable-posix --- omit posix interfaces
Using Guile Without Installing It =========================================
-If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment
-variable `GUILE_LOAD_PATH' to a colon-separated list of directories,
-including the directory containing this INSTALL file. If you used a
-separate build directory, you'll need to include the build directory
-in the path as well.
-
-For example, suppose the Guile distribution unpacked into a directory
-called `/home/jimb/guile-snap' (so the full name of this INSTALL file
-would be `/home/jimb/guile-snap/INSTALL'). Then you might say, if
-you're using Bash or any other Bourne shell variant,
-
- export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/jimb/guile-snap
-
-or if you're using CSH or one of its variants:
-
- setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH /home/jimb/guile-snap
-
-You will additionally need to set your `LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH' environment
-variable to the directory in which the compiled SRFI support modules
-are created if you want to use the modules for SRFI-4, SRFI-13 or
-SRFI-14 support. Similar to the example above, this will be,
-
- export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jimb/guile-snap/srfi/.libs
-
-or if you're using CSH or one of its variants:
-
- setenv LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH /home/jimb/guile-snap/srfi/.libs
+The top directory of the Guile sources contains a script called
+"pre-inst-guile" that can be used to run the Guile that has just been
+built.
Installing SLIB ===========================================================
(require 'primes)
(prime? 7)
+
Guile Documentation ==================================================
If you've never used Scheme before, then the Guile Tutorial
guile-snarf --- a script to parse declarations in your C code for
Scheme-visible C functions, Scheme objects to be used by C code,
etc.
- guile-tools --- a wrapper to invoke the executable modules in
- subdirectory `scripts' (also installed).
Libraries, in ${prefix}/lib. Depending on the platform and options
given to configure, you may get shared libraries in addition
libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
You can use Guile in your own programs by linking against this.
- libqthreads.a --- an object library containing the QuickThreads
- primitives. If you enabled thread support when you configured
- Guile, you will need to link your code against this too.
libguilereadline.a --- an object library containing glue code for the
- GNU readline library. See NEWS for instructions on how to enable
- readline for your personal use.
+ GNU readline library.
+
libguile-srfi-*.a --- various SRFI support libraries
Header files, in ${prefix}/include:
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