Preliminary version Create a makefile with configure. You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth. Create a machine description file for your machine, if necessary. configure has the following useful parameters: -direct-threaded: setup for a direct threaded interpreter; this is faster on many machines, but needs special support. Unsupported machines will ingore this switch. On some CISC machines, direct threading isn't an advantage over indirect threading. -without-debug: omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on machines where "strip" has problems with gcc style debugging informations. Now type gmake or whatever the name of GNU make on your system is. If your installed gcc isn't called "gcc" (eg. called "gcc-2.6.1"), type gmake CC= instead.