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| 1 : | anton | 1.7 | You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth. |
| 2 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 3 : | anton | 1.5 | First, type |
| 4 : | anton | 1.3 | |
| 5 : | anton | 1.8 | ./configure |
| 6 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 7 : | anton | 1.21 | (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 : | |||
| 15 : | make test | ||
| 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 : | |||
| 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 : | |||
| 40 : | If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, just concatenate the files | ||
| 41 : | gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under Unix). | ||
| 42 : | |||
| 43 : | |||
| 44 : | Configuration Options | ||
| 45 : | |||
| 46 : | You can build in a directory different from the source directory by | ||
| 47 : | changing to the build directory and invoking configure thus: | ||
| 48 : | |||
| 49 : | $srcdir/configure | ||
| 50 : | |||
| 51 : | anton | 1.22 | where $srcdir is the source directory. You need a VPATH-capable 'make' |
| 52 : | (e.g., GNU make) for this. (Note that we tested this only | ||
| 53 : | anton | 1.21 | for installation; i.e., if you want to hack the Gforth sources, you |
| 54 : | should probably build in the source directory). | ||
| 55 : | |||
| 56 : | pazsan | 1.4 | configure has the following useful parameters: |
| 57 : | anton | 1.9 | --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX |
| 58 : | [default: /usr/local] | ||
| 59 : | --exec-prefix=PREFIX install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX | ||
| 60 : | [default: same as prefix] | ||
| 61 : | anton | 1.8 | --enable-force-reg Use explicit register declarations if they appear in |
| 62 : | the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup, | ||
| 63 : | but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on | ||
| 64 : | some processors (default disabled). | ||
| 65 : | --enable-direct-threaded Force direct threading. This may not work on | ||
| 66 : | some machines and may cause slowdown on others. | ||
| 67 : | (default processor-dependent) | ||
| 68 : | --enable-indirect-threaded Force indirect threading. This can cause a | ||
| 69 : | slowdown on some machines. | ||
| 70 : | (default processor-dependent) | ||
| 71 : | --with-debug specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default) | ||
| 72 : | anton | 1.22 | --without-debug omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on |
| 73 : | machines where strip has problems with gcc style | ||
| 74 : | debugging informations. | ||
| 75 : | anton | 1.8 | --help: tells you about other parameters. |
| 76 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 77 : | anton | 1.21 | The file Benchres shows which combination of the -enable options we |
| 78 : | tried gave the best results for various machines. | ||
| 79 : | |||
| 80 : | anton | 1.9 | If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you |
| 81 : | should override them already during configure. E.g., if you want to | ||
| 82 : | install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local | ||
| 83 : | anton | 1.15 | hierarchy, say |
| 84 : | anton | 1.5 | |
| 85 : | anton | 1.9 | ./configure --prefix=/gnu |
| 86 : | anton | 1.2 | |
| 87 : | anton | 1.17 | Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you |
| 88 : | should say so during configuration. E.g.: | ||
| 89 : | pazsan | 1.16 | |
| 90 : | anton | 1.17 | env CC=gcc-2.7.1 ./configure |
| 91 : | pazsan | 1.16 | |
| 92 : | anton | 1.17 | You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you |
| 93 : | want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0: | ||
| 94 : | anton | 1.15 | |
| 95 : | anton | 1.17 | env "CC=gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0" ./configure |
| 96 : | anton | 1.15 | |
| 97 : | anton | 1.22 | You can change the sizes of the various areas used in the default |
| 98 : | image `gforth.fi' by passing the appropriate Gforth command line | ||
| 99 : | options in the FORTHSIZES environment variable: | ||
| 100 : | |||
| 101 : | env "FORTHSIZES=--dictionary-size=256k --data-stack-size=16k --fp-stack-size=16k --return-stack-size=16k --locals-stack-size=16k" ./configure | ||
| 102 : | |||
| 103 : | The line above reaffirms the default sizes. Note that the locals | ||
| 104 : | stack area is also used as input buffer stack. | ||
| 105 : | anton | 1.17 | |
| 106 : | Preloading installation-specific code | ||
| 107 : | |||
| 108 : | If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when | ||
| 109 : | Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands | ||
| 110 : | for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs | ||
| 111 : | (if the commands work for all architectures) or | ||
| 112 : | /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs (for | ||
| 113 : | architecture-specific commands); | ||
| 114 : | /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs takes precedence if both | ||
| 115 : | files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names | ||
| 116 : | given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have | ||
| 117 : | to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix. | ||
| 118 : | |||
| 119 : | By default, the installation procedure creates an empty | ||
| 120 : | /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs if there is no such | ||
| 121 : | file. | ||
| 122 : | |||
| 123 : | If you change the site-init.fs file, you should run "make install" | ||
| 124 : | again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make | ||
| 125 : | install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient). | ||
| 126 : | |||
| 127 : | |||
| 128 : | anton | 1.12 | Multiple Versions and Deinstallation |
| 129 : | |||
| 130 : | Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same | ||
| 131 : | time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to | ||
| 132 : | keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed. | ||
| 133 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 134 : | anton | 1.12 | You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and |
| 135 : | version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also | ||
| 136 : | tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely. | ||
| 137 : | anton | 1.17 | |
| 138 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 139 : | anton | 1.12 | A Possible Problem |
| 140 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 141 : | You need to read this only if you see a message like | ||
| 142 : | |||
| 143 : | anton | 1.19 | ... |
| 144 : | The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file | ||
| 145 : | |||
| 146 : | 1) "gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address $1234) at address $5678 | ||
| 147 : | anton | 1.10 | The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file" |
| 148 : | |||
| 149 : | anton | 1.11 | Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load |
| 150 : | anton | 1.10 | normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address |
| 151 : | image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult. | ||
| 152 : | |||
| 153 : | anton | 1.11 | Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel |
| 154 : | pazsan | 1.20 | (kernel.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of |
| 155 : | anton | 1.10 | Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To |
| 156 : | anton | 1.11 | avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the |
| 157 : | installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address | ||
| 158 : | determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This | ||
| 159 : | fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works, | ||
| 160 : | because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same | ||
| 161 : | address. If the address changes, you get the message above. | ||
| 162 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 163 : | An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth | ||
| 164 : | executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you | ||
| 165 : | just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with | ||
| 166 : | |||
| 167 : | rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install | ||
| 168 : | |||
| 169 : | If you get such a message with a different address in place of the | ||
| 170 : | anton | 1.19 | $5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address |
| 171 : | anton | 1.10 | images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start |
| 172 : | searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the | ||
| 173 : | meantime, start gforth with | ||
| 174 : | |||
| 175 : | pazsan | 1.20 | gforth -i kernel.fi startup.fs |
| 176 : | anton | 1.19 | |
| 177 : | |||
| 178 : | 2) "%s: Checksum of image ($13579b) does not match the executable ($2468a) | ||
| 179 : | The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file" | ||
| 180 : | |||
| 181 : | A fixed-address image is not only fixed with respect to its base | ||
| 182 : | address, but also with respect to certain addresses in the gforth | ||
| 183 : | executable and the threading method. These things are encoded in a | ||
| 184 : | checksum. | ||
| 185 : | |||
| 186 : | If the checksum of the executable and the checksum of the image are | ||
| 187 : | not equal, you get the message above. This can be caused, e.g., by | ||
| 188 : | trying to run an image produced for a direct threading system on an | ||
| 189 : | indirect threaded system. | ||
| 190 : | |||
| 191 : | Chances are that you unintentionally tried to execute an image from | ||
| 192 : | anton | 1.21 | the wrong directory. As a remedy, you can specify Gforth's search |
| 193 : | anton | 1.19 | path with the "-p" command line option and with the GFORTHPATH |
| 194 : | environment variable. | ||
| 195 : | |||
| 196 : | On the other hand, if you need to solve the problem by creating a new | ||
| 197 : | fixed-address image, you can use the steps described above. | ||
| 198 : | |||
| 199 : | anton | 1.10 |
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