File:  [gforth] / gforth / INSTALL.DOS
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Fri Dec 25 22:50:47 1998 UTC (25 years, 2 months ago) by pazsan
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CVS tags: v0-5-0, v0-4-0, HEAD
Install process fixes for DOS and OS/2
EC primitive count fixed
EC relocate problem fixed

    1: MS-DOS:
    2: 
    3: You need DJ Delorie's port of GCC to DOS (DJGPP 2.0) to compile
    4: Gforth. DJGPP provides a DPMI client that allows to use the 32-bit
    5: features of the 80386, but on the other hand it requires at least a
    6: 386. A DPMI host is also part of the DJGPP 2.0 package, this is
    7: required if you don't have a DPMI host yourself (Windows/OS/2/Linux
    8: DOS-box, Quemm or others).
    9: 
   10: First run
   11: 
   12: config
   13: 
   14: config has the following useful parameters:
   15:   --enable-force-reg      Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
   16:                           the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
   17:                           but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
   18:                           some processors (default disabled).
   19:   --enable-direct-threaded      Force direct threading. This may not work on
   20:                                 some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
   21:                                 (default disabled)
   22:   --enable-indirect-threaded    Force indirect threading. This can cause a
   23:                                 slowdown on some machines.
   24:                                 (default enabled)
   25: 
   26: OS/2:
   27: 
   28: You need EMX 0.9c to compile Gforth. The EMX package provides all
   29: necessary Unix-like tools, tty and signal handling.
   30: 
   31: Windows 95/Windows NT:
   32: 
   33: You need the Cygnus Win32 package. This package currently is only in
   34: beta test, so expect bugs and quirks.
   35: 
   36: If you don't want to install the DJGPP, CYGWIN32 or EMX package (quite
   37: large), look for a binary distribution of Gforth for DOS, Win32 or
   38: OS/2.
   39: 
   40: You also must have a version of GNU make, because DOS/Win32/OS/2 make
   41: programs are likely to have problems with the Makefile. If you want to
   42: change Gforth, you may need GNU m4, too. Because DJGPP provides some
   43: use of long filenames under Windows 95, you should unpack the gforth
   44: package with a Windows-95-aware archiver (those from DJGPP or the
   45: Cygnus Win32-package come in mind), because otherwise gforth will not
   46: find the necessary files. With MS-DOS versions prior 7.0 or DR-DOS,
   47: these names are cut due to the 8.3 rule. This might confuse DJGPP
   48: 2.0's make, you could use DJGPP 1.x's make instead. Gforth 0.4.0
   49: hasn't been compiled with a MS-DOS prior 7.0.
   50: 
   51: Compiling under DOS or OS/2 has a number of quirks, and if it doesn't
   52: compile out of the box, you should know what you do. I therefore
   53: discourage unexperienced users to compile gforth themselves. There's a
   54: binary package for it anyway.
   55: 
   56: Compiling using CygWin32 works a bit better, but there are still
   57: quirks. The package allows to "mount" Windows directories under
   58: typical unix locations. E.g. I installed the package in E:\cygnus, and
   59: then I mount /usr, /usr/local and /bin with
   60: 
   61: ./mount e:/cygnus /usr
   62: ./mount e:/cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32 /usr/local
   63: ./mount e:/cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32/bin /bin
   64: 
   65: once. Each time I start CygWin32's bash, I set up the following variables:
   66: 
   67: export TMPDIR=/usr/tmp
   68: export COMPILER_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-cygwin32/cygnus-2.7.2-970404
   69: export LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib;/usr/local/lib"
   70: export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/i386-cygwin32/include
   71: export GCC_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="-specs=$COMPILER_PATH/specs"
   72: export PATH=/bin:.:$PATH
   73: 
   74: Write this into a script and source it in at each bash invocation, or
   75: put it into your .bashrc.
   76: 
   77: If you don't bother and want to make it yourself, type
   78: 
   79: configure
   80: 
   81: configure has the following useful parameters:
   82:   --enable-force-reg      Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
   83:                           the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
   84:                           but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
   85:                           some processors (default disabled).
   86:   --enable-direct-threaded      Force direct threading. This may not work on
   87:                                 some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
   88:                                 (default disabled)
   89:   --enable-indirect-threaded    Force indirect threading. This can cause a
   90:                                 slowdown on some machines.
   91:                                 (default enabled)
   92: 
   93: After covering all inconveniences, type
   94: 
   95: make
   96: 
   97: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
   98: 
   99: make test
  100: 
  101: You can run some benchmarks with
  102: 
  103: make bench
  104: 
  105: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual. DOS
  106: and OS/2 don't allow to run the benchmarks, since the command TIME
  107: means something different there.
  108: 
  109: Don't try to do "make install" there, it won't work, either. It is not
  110: possible to "make dist" or "make bindist", too, because of the
  111: limitations of DOS command lines.
  112: 
  113: Add the following entry to your Autoexec.bat:
  114: 
  115: SET GFORTHPATH=<your gforth source directory>;.
  116: 
  117: Use / instead of \ in your gforth source directory. Gforth now uses
  118: ';' as path separator for DOS and OS/2 (not for Cygwin32), so you
  119: won't have problems with DOS pathes that may contain ':', which is the
  120: default path separator in Unix. Use ~+ for the current directory.
  121: 
  122: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
  123: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
  124: printers)), or say
  125: 
  126: make gforth.dvi
  127: 
  128: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi (you need TeX for that! But
  129: with TeX you can print it even if you don't have a Postscript printer
  130: nor Ghostscript).  You could be able to make a HTML version of the
  131: document, but AFAIK there is no texi2html for DOS available, as there
  132: is no perl available. You should get the HTML pages from the same
  133: location where you got Gforth or from
  134: 
  135: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
  136: or
  137: ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/

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