Annotation of gforth/INSTALL, revision 1.19

1.7       anton       1: You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.
1.1       anton       2: 
1.5       anton       3: First, type
1.3       anton       4: 
1.8       anton       5: ./configure
1.1       anton       6: 
1.4       pazsan      7: configure has the following useful parameters:
1.9       anton       8:   --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
                      9:                           [default: /usr/local]
                     10:   --exec-prefix=PREFIX    install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
                     11:                           [default: same as prefix]
1.8       anton      12:   --enable-force-reg      Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
                     13:                           the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
                     14:                           but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
                     15:                           some processors (default disabled).
                     16:   --enable-direct-threaded      Force direct threading. This may not work on
                     17:                                 some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
                     18:                                 (default processor-dependent)
                     19:   --enable-indirect-threaded    Force indirect threading. This can cause a
                     20:                                 slowdown on some machines.
                     21:                                 (default processor-dependent)
                     22:   --with-debug     specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default)
                     23:    --without-debug  omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on
                     24:                     machines where strip has problems with gcc style
                     25:                     debugging informations.
                     26:   --help: tells you about other parameters.
1.1       anton      27: 
1.9       anton      28: If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
                     29: should override them already during configure.  E.g., if you want to
                     30: install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
1.15      anton      31: hierarchy, say
1.5       anton      32: 
1.9       anton      33: ./configure --prefix=/gnu
1.2       anton      34: 
1.17      anton      35: Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you
                     36: should say so during configuration. E.g.:
1.16      pazsan     37: 
1.17      anton      38: env CC=gcc-2.7.1 ./configure
1.16      pazsan     39: 
1.17      anton      40: You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you
                     41: want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0:
1.15      anton      42: 
1.17      anton      43: env "CC=gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0" ./configure
1.15      anton      44: 
1.17      anton      45: After, configuration, type
1.9       anton      46: 
1.17      anton      47: make
1.6       anton      48: 
1.7       anton      49: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
                     50: 
                     51: make test
                     52: 
1.12      anton      53: You can run some benchmarks with
1.6       anton      54: 
1.12      anton      55: make bench
                     56: 
                     57: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
1.7       anton      58: 
1.17      anton      59: If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type
1.7       anton      60: 
                     61: make install
                     62: 
1.12      anton      63: You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually.
                     64: 
                     65: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
                     66: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
                     67: printers)), or say
                     68: 
                     69: make gforth.dvi
                     70: 
                     71: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
                     72: documentation in HTML format by typing
                     73: 
                     74: make html
                     75: 
1.18      anton      76: If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, just concatenate the files
                     77: gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under Unix).
1.17      anton      78: 
                     79:                Preloading installation-specific code
                     80: 
                     81: If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
                     82: Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
                     83: for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs
                     84: (if the commands work for all architectures) or
                     85: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs (for
                     86: architecture-specific commands);
                     87: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs takes precedence if both
                     88: files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
                     89: given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
                     90: to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
                     91: 
                     92: By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
                     93: /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs if there is no such
                     94: file.
                     95: 
                     96: If you change the site-init.fs file, you should run "make install"
                     97: again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
                     98: install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
                     99: 
                    100: 
1.12      anton     101:                Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
                    102: 
                    103: Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
                    104: time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
                    105: keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
1.10      anton     106: 
1.12      anton     107: You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
                    108: version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
                    109: tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
1.17      anton     110: 
1.10      anton     111: 
1.12      anton     112:                        A Possible Problem
1.10      anton     113: 
                    114: You need to read this only if you see a message like
                    115: 
1.19    ! anton     116: ...
        !           117: The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file
        !           118: 
        !           119: 1) "gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address $1234) at address $5678
1.10      anton     120: The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file"
                    121: 
1.11      anton     122: Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load
1.10      anton     123: normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address
                    124: image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult.
                    125: 
1.11      anton     126: Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel
1.10      anton     127: (kernal.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of
                    128: Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To
1.11      anton     129: avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the
                    130: installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address
                    131: determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This
                    132: fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works,
                    133: because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same
                    134: address. If the address changes, you get the message above.
1.10      anton     135: 
                    136: An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth
                    137: executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you
                    138: just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with
                    139: 
                    140: rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install
                    141: 
                    142: If you get such a message with a different address in place of the
1.19    ! anton     143: $5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address
1.10      anton     144: images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start
                    145: searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the
                    146: meantime, start gforth with
                    147: 
                    148: gforth -i kernal.fi startup.fs
1.19    ! anton     149: 
        !           150: 
        !           151: 2) "%s: Checksum of image ($13579b) does not match the executable ($2468a)
        !           152: The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file"
        !           153: 
        !           154: A fixed-address image is not only fixed with respect to its base
        !           155: address, but also with respect to certain addresses in the gforth
        !           156: executable and the threading method. These things are encoded in a
        !           157: checksum.
        !           158: 
        !           159: If the checksum of the executable and the checksum of the image are
        !           160: not equal, you get the message above. This can be caused, e.g., by
        !           161: trying to run an image produced for a direct threading system on an
        !           162: indirect threaded system.
        !           163: 
        !           164: Chances are that you unintentionally tried to execute an image from
        !           165: the wrong directory. As a remedy, you can determine Gforth's search
        !           166: path with the "-p" command line option and with the GFORTHPATH
        !           167: environment variable.
        !           168: 
        !           169: On the other hand, if you need to solve the problem by creating a new
        !           170: fixed-address image, you can use the steps described above.
        !           171: 
1.10      anton     172: 

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