Annotation of gforth/INSTALL, revision 1.28
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:
1.21 anton 7: (see Section Configuration Options below for details).
8:
9: After configuration, type
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11: make
12:
13: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
14:
15: make test
16:
17: You can run some benchmarks with
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19: make bench
20:
21: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
22:
23: If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type
24:
25: make install
26:
27: You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually.
28:
29: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
30: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
31: printers)), or say
32:
33: make gforth.dvi
34:
35: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
36: documentation in HTML format by typing
37:
38: make html
39:
1.28 ! anton 40: If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, you can
! 41:
! 42: make doc/gforth.txt
! 43:
! 44: or just concatenate the files gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under
! 45: Unix); the result of the latter option is a little worse.
! 46:
! 47: You can find binary distributions, documentation in HTML and plain
! 48: text format and information on known installation problems at
! 49: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/.
1.21 anton 50:
51:
52: Configuration Options
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1.23 anton 54: If you use GNU make, you can build in a directory different from the
55: source directory by changing to the build directory and invoking
56: configure thus:
1.21 anton 57:
58: $srcdir/configure
59:
1.23 anton 60: where $srcdir is the source directory. (Note that we tested this only
1.21 anton 61: for installation; i.e., if you want to hack the Gforth sources, you
62: should probably build in the source directory).
63:
1.4 pazsan 64: configure has the following useful parameters:
1.9 anton 65: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
66: [default: /usr/local]
67: --exec-prefix=PREFIX install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
68: [default: same as prefix]
1.8 anton 69: --enable-force-reg Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
70: the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
71: but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
72: some processors (default disabled).
73: --enable-direct-threaded Force direct threading. This may not work on
74: some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
75: (default processor-dependent)
76: --enable-indirect-threaded Force indirect threading. This can cause a
77: slowdown on some machines.
78: (default processor-dependent)
79: --with-debug specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default)
1.22 anton 80: --without-debug omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on
81: machines where strip has problems with gcc style
82: debugging informations.
1.8 anton 83: --help: tells you about other parameters.
1.1 anton 84:
1.21 anton 85: The file Benchres shows which combination of the -enable options we
86: tried gave the best results for various machines.
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1.9 anton 88: If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
89: should override them already during configure. E.g., if you want to
90: install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
1.15 anton 91: hierarchy, say
1.5 anton 92:
1.9 anton 93: ./configure --prefix=/gnu
1.2 anton 94:
1.17 anton 95: Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you
96: should say so during configuration. E.g.:
1.16 pazsan 97:
1.17 anton 98: env CC=gcc-2.7.1 ./configure
1.16 pazsan 99:
1.17 anton 100: You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you
101: want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0:
1.15 anton 102:
1.17 anton 103: env "CC=gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0" ./configure
1.15 anton 104:
1.22 anton 105: You can change the sizes of the various areas used in the default
106: image `gforth.fi' by passing the appropriate Gforth command line
107: options in the FORTHSIZES environment variable:
108:
1.26 anton 109: env "FORTHSIZES=--dictionary-size=256k --data-stack-size=16k --fp-stack-size=15872b --return-stack-size=15k --locals-stack-size=14848b" ./configure
1.22 anton 110:
111: The line above reaffirms the default sizes. Note that the locals
112: stack area is also used as input buffer stack.
1.17 anton 113:
1.24 anton 114: If C's "long long" do not work properly on your machine (i.e., if the
115: tests involving double-cell numbers fail), you can build Gforth such
116: that it does not use "long long":
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118: env ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0 ./configure
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120:
121: Cross-Configuration
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123: A few tests made by the configure script do not work in a
124: cross-compilation situation. You have to provide the results of these
125: tests by hand. E.g., if you compile for a 386 architecture processor:
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127: env ac_cv_sizeof_char_p=4 ac_cv_sizeof_short=2 ac_cv_sizeof_int=4 ac_cv_sizeof_long=4 ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=8 ac_cv_c_bigendian=no ./configure
128:
129: The ac_cv_sizeof_... variables give the sizes of various C types;
130: ac_cv_sizeof_char_p is the same as "sizeof(char*)" in C code. The
131: ac_cv_c_bigendian variable gives the byte order.
132:
133:
1.17 anton 134: Preloading installation-specific code
135:
136: If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
137: Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
1.28 ! anton 138: for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs
1.17 anton 139: (if the commands work for all architectures) or
1.28 ! anton 140: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs (for
1.17 anton 141: architecture-specific commands);
1.28 ! anton 142: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs takes precedence if both
1.17 anton 143: files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
144: given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
145: to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
146:
147: By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
1.28 ! anton 148: /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs if there is no such
1.17 anton 149: file.
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1.28 ! anton 151: If you change the siteinit.fs file, you should run "make install"
1.17 anton 152: again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
153: install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
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1.12 anton 156: Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
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158: Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
159: time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
160: keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
1.10 anton 161:
1.12 anton 162: You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
163: version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
164: tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
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