Annotation of gforth/INSTALL, revision 1.32

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
                     10: 
                     11: make
                     12: 
                     13: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
                     14: 
1.30      anton      15: make check
1.21      anton      16: 
                     17: You can run some benchmarks with
                     18: 
                     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: 
1.29      crook      27: You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually (see
                     28: Installing Info Files, below).
1.21      anton      29: 
                     30: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
                     31: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
                     32: printers)), or say
                     33: 
                     34: make gforth.dvi
                     35: 
                     36: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
                     37: documentation in HTML format by typing
                     38: 
                     39: make html
                     40: 
1.28      anton      41: If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, you can 
                     42: 
                     43: make doc/gforth.txt
                     44: 
                     45: or just concatenate the files gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under
                     46: Unix); the result of the latter option is a little worse.
                     47: 
                     48: You can find binary distributions, documentation in HTML and plain
                     49: text format and information on known installation problems at
                     50: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/.
1.21      anton      51: 
                     52: 
                     53:                Configuration Options
                     54: 
1.23      anton      55: If you use GNU make, you can build in a directory different from the
                     56: source directory by changing to the build directory and invoking
                     57: configure thus:
1.21      anton      58: 
                     59: $srcdir/configure
                     60: 
1.23      anton      61: where $srcdir is the source directory. (Note that we tested this only
1.21      anton      62: for installation; i.e., if you want to hack the Gforth sources, you
                     63: should probably build in the source directory).
                     64: 
1.4       pazsan     65: configure has the following useful parameters:
1.9       anton      66:   --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
                     67:                           [default: /usr/local]
                     68:   --exec-prefix=PREFIX    install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
                     69:                           [default: same as prefix]
1.8       anton      70:   --enable-force-reg      Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
                     71:                           the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
                     72:                           but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
                     73:                           some processors (default disabled).
                     74:   --help: tells you about other parameters.
1.1       anton      75: 
1.21      anton      76: The file Benchres shows which combination of the -enable options we
                     77: tried gave the best results for various machines.
                     78: 
1.9       anton      79: If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
                     80: should override them already during configure.  E.g., if you want to
                     81: install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
1.15      anton      82: hierarchy, say
1.5       anton      83: 
1.9       anton      84: ./configure --prefix=/gnu
1.2       anton      85: 
1.17      anton      86: Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you
                     87: should say so during configuration. E.g.:
1.16      pazsan     88: 
1.17      anton      89: env CC=gcc-2.7.1 ./configure
1.16      pazsan     90: 
1.17      anton      91: You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you
                     92: want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0:
1.15      anton      93: 
1.17      anton      94: env "CC=gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0" ./configure
1.15      anton      95: 
1.22      anton      96: You can change the sizes of the various areas used in the default
                     97: image `gforth.fi' by passing the appropriate Gforth command line
                     98: options in the FORTHSIZES environment variable:
                     99: 
1.26      anton     100: 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     101: 
                    102: The line above reaffirms the default sizes. Note that the locals
                    103: stack area is also used as input buffer stack.
1.17      anton     104: 
1.24      anton     105: If C's "long long" do not work properly on your machine (i.e., if the
                    106: tests involving double-cell numbers fail), you can build Gforth such
                    107: that it does not use "long long":
                    108: 
                    109: env ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0 ./configure
                    110: 
                    111: 
1.31      anton     112:                        Cross-Installation
1.24      anton     113: 
1.31      anton     114: You need a cross-compilation toolchain for your target including gcc
                    115: (2.0 or later).
                    116: 
                    117: The first step in cross-installation is the cross-configuration.  A
                    118: few tests made by the configure script do not work in a
1.24      anton     119: cross-compilation situation. You have to provide the results of these
                    120: tests by hand. E.g., if you compile for a 386 architecture processor:
                    121: 
1.32    ! anton     122: env ac_cv_sizeof_char_p=4 ac_cv_sizeof_char=1 ac_cv_sizeof_short=2 ac_cv_sizeof_int=4 ac_cv_sizeof_long=4 ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=8 ac_cv_sizeof_intptr_t=4 ac_cv_sizeof_int128_t=0 ac_cv_c_bigendian=no ./configure
1.24      anton     123: 
                    124: The ac_cv_sizeof_... variables give the sizes of various C types;
                    125: ac_cv_sizeof_char_p is the same as "sizeof(char*)" in C code. The
                    126: ac_cv_c_bigendian variable gives the byte order.
1.31      anton     127: 
                    128: After the cross-configuration you type
                    129: 
                    130: make gforths
                    131: 
                    132: This produces the gforth engines for the target.
                    133: 
                    134: The next step is to transfer everything to the target; on the target,
                    135: you do
                    136: 
                    137: make
                    138: 
                    139: to complete building gforth.  If you do not have a make on the target,
                    140: run
                    141: 
                    142: make -n
                    143: 
                    144: on the host; manually execute on the target the last command output by
                    145: "make -n" (GFORTHD=...); the other commands output by "make -n" are
                    146: not necessary unless you have changed the Gforth sources.  You can
                    147: then check and benchmark Gforth with
                    148: 
                    149: make check
                    150: make bench
                    151: 
                    152: or equivalent.  Finally, perform
                    153: 
                    154: make install
                    155: 
                    156: or the equivalent commands on the target.
1.24      anton     157: 
                    158: 
1.17      anton     159:                Preloading installation-specific code
                    160: 
                    161: If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
                    162: Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
1.28      anton     163: for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs
1.17      anton     164: (if the commands work for all architectures) or
1.28      anton     165: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs (for
1.17      anton     166: architecture-specific commands);
1.28      anton     167: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs takes precedence if both
1.17      anton     168: files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
                    169: given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
                    170: to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
                    171: 
                    172: By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
1.28      anton     173: /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs if there is no such
1.17      anton     174: file.
                    175: 
1.28      anton     176: If you change the siteinit.fs file, you should run "make install"
1.17      anton     177: again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
                    178: install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
                    179: 
                    180: 
1.12      anton     181:                Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
                    182: 
                    183: Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
                    184: time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
                    185: keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
1.10      anton     186: 
1.12      anton     187: You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
                    188: version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
                    189: tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
1.29      crook     190: 
                    191: 
                    192:                Installing Info Files
                    193: 
                    194: Info is the GNU project on-line documentation format. You can read
                    195: info files either from within Emacs (Ctrl-h i) or using the
                    196: stand-alone Info reader, 'info'.
                    197: 
                    198: If you use the default install root of '/usr/local' then the info
                    199: files will be installed in '/usr/local/info'.
                    200: 
                    201: Many GNU/Linux distributions are set up to put all of their
                    202: documentation in '/usr/info', in which case you might have to do a
                    203: couple of things to get your environment set up to accommodate files
                    204: in both areas:
                    205: 
                    206: 1. Add an INFOPATH environment variable. The easiest place to do
                    207: this is '/etc/profile', right next to PATH and MANPATH:
                    208: 
                    209: INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info
                    210: 
                    211: 2. Create a file called 'dir' in 'usr/local/info'. Use the file
                    212: '/usr/info/dir' as a template. You can add the line for gforth
                    213: manually, or use '/sbin/install-info' (man install-info for details).
                    214: 

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