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 1.3.4 release. This is version 1.3.5 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library. Guile is an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library that you can link into your applications to give them their own scripting language. Guile will eventually support other languages as well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. Guile Documentation ================================================== There is some preliminary documentation for Guile under the directory doc. The real Guile manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised. A development snapshot of the manual is available at ftp.red-bean.com as /pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz. About This Distribution ============================================== Interesting files include: - INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile. - NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile. - COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute Guile, and explains that there is no warranty. Building and installing this distribution gives you: guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in /usr/local/bin. With no arguments, this is a simple interactive Scheme interpreter. It can also be used as an interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details. guile-config --- a Guile script which provides the information necessary to link your programs against the Guile library. 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. libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter, usually installed in /usr/local/lib. 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. , , --- header files for libguile.a, usually installed in /usr/local/include. ice-9, ice-9/*.scm --- run-time support for Guile: the module system, read-eval-print loop, some R4RS code and other infrastructure. Usually installed in /usr/local/share/guile/. data-rep.info --- An essay on how to write C code that works with Guile Scheme values. The Guile source tree is laid out as follows: libguile: The Guile Scheme interpreter --- both the object library for you to link with your programs, and the executable you can run. ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure. guile-config: Source for the guile-config script. qt: A cooperative threads package from the University of Washington, which Guile can use. If you configure Guile with the --with-threads flag, you will need to link against the -lqt library, found in this directory. Qt is under a separate copyright; see `qt/README' for more details. guile-readline: The glue code for using GNU readline with Guile. This will be build when configure can find a recent enough readline library on your system. doc: Some preliminary documentation for Guile. The real Guile manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised. A development snapshot of the manual is available at ftp.red-bean.com as /pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz. doc/example-smob: Sample code, discussed in the preliminary documentation above, for a program that extends Guile with a new data type, and functions that operate on it. Anonymous CVS Access and FTP snapshots =============================== We make the developers' working Guile sources available via anonymous CVS, and by nightly snapshots, accessible via FTP. See the files `ANON-CVS' and `SNAPSHOTS' for details. 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