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1 | Brief Installation Instructions =========================================== |
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5 | 1. Type "./configure", to configure the package for your system. |
6 | 2. Type "make", to build the package. | |
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7 | |
8 | Generic instructions for configuring and compiling GNU distributions | |
9f75bc05 | 9 | are included below. |
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12 | Special Instructions For Some Systems ===================================== |
13 | ||
14 | We would like Guile to build on all systems using the simple | |
15 | instructions above, but it seems that a few systems still need special | |
16 | treatment. If you can send us fixes for these problems, we'd be | |
17 | grateful. | |
18 | ||
19 | SunOS 4.1: Guile's shared library support seems to be confused, but | |
20 | hey; shared libraries are confusing. You may need to configure | |
21 | Guile with a command like: | |
7e2c0c8d | 22 | ./configure --disable-shared |
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23 | For more information on `--disable-shared', see below, "Flags |
24 | Accepted by Configure". | |
25 | ||
26 | HP/UX: GCC 2.7.2 (and maybe other versions) have trouble creating | |
27 | shared libraries if they depend on any non-shared libraries. GCC | |
28 | seems to have other problems as well. To work around this, we | |
29 | suggest you configure Guile to use the system's C compiler: | |
30 | CC=cc ./configure | |
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32 | NetBSD: Perry Metzger says, "Guile will build under NetBSD only using |
33 | gmake -- the native make will not work. (gmake is in our package | |
34 | system, so this will not be a problem when we packagize 1.3.)" | |
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35 | |
36 | What You Get ============================================================== | |
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37 | |
38 | The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts Guile to | |
39 | compile and run on it. | |
40 | ||
41 | The `make' command builds several things: | |
42 | - An executable file `guile/guile', which is an interactive shell for | |
43 | talking with the Guile Scheme interpreter. | |
6dad9cd3 | 44 | - An object library `libguile/.libs/libguile.a', containing the Guile Scheme |
30d14d55 | 45 | interpreter, ready to be linked into your programs. |
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46 | |
47 | To install Guile, type `make install'. This installs the executable | |
48 | and libraries mentioned above, as well as Guile's header files and | |
49 | Scheme libraries. | |
50 | ||
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51 | Make also builds shared libraries, on systems that support them. |
52 | Because of the nature of shared libraries, before linking against | |
53 | them, you should probably install them; `make install' takes care of | |
54 | this. | |
55 | ||
56 | ||
57 | Flags Accepted by Configure =============================================== | |
58 | ||
59 | If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine | |
60 | your system and set things up appropriately. However, there are a few | |
61 | switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances. | |
62 | ||
63 | --enable-maintainer-mode --- If you have automake, autoconf, and | |
64 | libtool installed on your system, this switch causes configure to | |
65 | generate Makefiles which know how to automatically regenerate | |
66 | configure scripts, makefiles, and headers, when they are out of date. | |
67 | The README file says which versions of those tools you will need. | |
68 | ||
69 | --with-threads --- Build a Guile executable and library that supports | |
70 | cooperative threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build | |
71 | and install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library, | |
72 | libqt.a, which you will need to link into your programs after | |
73 | libguile.a. That is, you should pass the switches -lguile -qt to your | |
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74 | linker. |
75 | ||
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76 | Cooperative threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are, they |
77 | will be enabled by default. The interaction with blocking I/O is | |
78 | pretty ad hoc at the moment. In our experience, bugs in the thread | |
79 | support do not affect you if you don't actually use threads. | |
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81 | --enable-dynamic-linking --- Build a Guile executable and library |
82 | providing Scheme functions which can load a shared library and | |
83 | initialize it, perhaps thereby adding new functions to Guile. This | |
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84 | feature is enabled by default; you only need to use this option (as |
85 | `--enable-dynamic-linking=no') if you want to build a Guile which does | |
86 | not support dynamic linking. | |
87 | ||
88 | This option has no effect on systems that do not support shared | |
89 | libraries. | |
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90 | |
91 | --disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries. Normally, Guile | |
92 | will build shared libraries if your system supports them. Guile | |
93 | always builds static libraries. | |
94 | ||
95 | ||
96 | Using Guile Without Installing It ========================================= | |
97 | ||
30d14d55 | 98 | If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment |
cf591c72 | 99 | variable `GUILE_LOAD_PATH' to a colon-separated list of directories, |
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100 | including the directory containing this INSTALL file. If you used a |
101 | separate build directory, you'll need to include the build directory | |
102 | in the path as well. | |
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bacf83f0 | 104 | For example, suppose the Guile distribution unpacked into a directory |
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105 | called `/home/jimb/guile-snap' (so the full name of this INSTALL file |
106 | would be `/home/jimb/guile-snap/INSTALL'). Then you might say, if | |
107 | you're using Bash or any other Bourne shell variant, | |
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cf591c72 | 109 | export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/jimb/guile-snap |
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18f468f8 | 111 | or if you're using CSH or one of its variants: |
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cf591c72 | 113 | setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH /home/jimb/guile-snap |
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116 | Building a Statically Linked Guile ======================================== |
117 | ||
118 | Sometimes it's useful to build a statically-linked version of the | |
119 | Guile executable. It's helpful in debugging, and for producing | |
120 | stand-alone executables for distribution to machines you don't | |
121 | control. | |
122 | ||
123 | To do this, set the LDFLAGS environment variable to `-static' before | |
124 | you configure, or before you run the `make' command to build the | |
125 | executable. | |
126 | ||
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6dad9cd3 | 128 | Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages ================ |
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129 | |
130 | To compile this package: | |
131 | ||
132 | 1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this | |
133 | file is in, type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old | |
134 | version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to | |
135 | prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. | |
136 | ||
137 | The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for | |
138 | various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and | |
139 | creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source | |
140 | directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing | |
141 | system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status' | |
142 | that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration. | |
143 | Running `configure' takes a minute or two. | |
144 | ||
145 | To compile the package in a different directory from the one | |
146 | containing the source code, you must use GNU make. `cd' to the | |
147 | directory where you want the object files and executables to go and | |
148 | run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where DIR is the | |
149 | directory that contains the source code. Using this option is | |
150 | actually unnecessary if the source code is in the parent directory of | |
151 | the one in which you are compiling; `configure' automatically checks | |
152 | for the source code in `..' if it does not find it in the current | |
153 | directory. | |
154 | ||
155 | By default, `make install' will install the package's files in | |
156 | /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify | |
157 | an installation prefix other than /usr/local by giving `configure' the | |
158 | option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by changing the | |
159 | `prefix' variable in the Makefile that `configure' creates (the | |
160 | Makefile in the top-level directory, if the package contains | |
161 | subdirectories). | |
162 | ||
163 | You can specify separate installation prefixes for machine-specific | |
164 | files and machine-independent files. If you give `configure' the | |
165 | option `--exec_prefix=PATH', the package will use PATH as the prefix | |
166 | for installing programs and libraries. Normally, all files are | |
167 | installed using the same prefix. | |
168 | ||
169 | `configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it. | |
170 | ||
171 | If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking | |
172 | that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial | |
173 | values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In | |
174 | Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like | |
175 | this: | |
176 | CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure | |
177 | ||
178 | The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment | |
179 | variables when running `configure' are: | |
180 | ||
181 | (For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the | |
182 | value that `configure' would choose:) | |
183 | CC C compiler program. | |
184 | Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH. | |
185 | INSTALL Program to use to install files. | |
186 | Default is `install' if you have it, `cp' otherwise. | |
187 | INCLUDEDIR Directory for `configure' to search for include files. | |
188 | Default is /usr/include. | |
189 | ||
190 | (For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to | |
191 | the value that `configure' chooses:) | |
192 | DEFS Configuration options, in the form '-Dfoo -Dbar ...' | |
193 | LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form '-lfoo -lbar ...' | |
194 | ||
195 | If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage | |
196 | you to teach `configure' how to do them and mail the diffs to the | |
197 | address given in the README so we can include them in the next | |
198 | release. | |
199 | ||
200 | 2. Type `make' to compile the package. | |
201 | ||
202 | 3. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and | |
203 | documentation. | |
204 | ||
205 | 4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the | |
206 | source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the | |
207 | Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions | |
208 | (if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that | |
209 | `configure' created), type `make distclean'. | |
210 | ||
211 | The file `configure.in' is used as a template to create `configure' by | |
212 | a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to | |
213 | regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. |