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| 1 : | anton | 1.33 | Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 2 : | This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives | ||
| 3 : | unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. | ||
| 4 : | |||
| 5 : | anton | 1.35 | |
| 6 : | Prerequisites | ||
| 7 : | |||
| 8 : | You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth. Recommended: | ||
| 9 : | gcc-2.95.* (other versions produce slower code). | ||
| 10 : | |||
| 11 : | To use the new C interface, you need to install the ffcall libraries | ||
| 12 : | before configuring Gforth. You can find them on | ||
| 13 : | |||
| 14 : | ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (USA) | ||
| 15 : | ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (Europe) | ||
| 16 : | |||
| 17 : | |||
| 18 : | Building and Installing | ||
| 19 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 20 : | anton | 1.5 | First, type |
| 21 : | anton | 1.3 | |
| 22 : | anton | 1.8 | ./configure |
| 23 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 24 : | anton | 1.21 | (see Section Configuration Options below for details). |
| 25 : | |||
| 26 : | After configuration, type | ||
| 27 : | |||
| 28 : | make | ||
| 29 : | |||
| 30 : | Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say | ||
| 31 : | |||
| 32 : | anton | 1.30 | make check |
| 33 : | anton | 1.21 | |
| 34 : | You can run some benchmarks with | ||
| 35 : | |||
| 36 : | make bench | ||
| 37 : | |||
| 38 : | and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual. | ||
| 39 : | |||
| 40 : | If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type | ||
| 41 : | |||
| 42 : | make install | ||
| 43 : | |||
| 44 : | For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi | ||
| 45 : | fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better | ||
| 46 : | printers)), or say | ||
| 47 : | |||
| 48 : | make gforth.dvi | ||
| 49 : | |||
| 50 : | and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the | ||
| 51 : | documentation in HTML format by typing | ||
| 52 : | |||
| 53 : | make html | ||
| 54 : | |||
| 55 : | anton | 1.28 | If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, you can |
| 56 : | |||
| 57 : | make doc/gforth.txt | ||
| 58 : | |||
| 59 : | or just concatenate the files gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under | ||
| 60 : | Unix); the result of the latter option is a little worse. | ||
| 61 : | |||
| 62 : | You can find binary distributions, documentation in HTML and plain | ||
| 63 : | text format and information on known installation problems at | ||
| 64 : | http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/. | ||
| 65 : | anton | 1.21 | |
| 66 : | |||
| 67 : | Configuration Options | ||
| 68 : | |||
| 69 : | anton | 1.23 | If you use GNU make, you can build in a directory different from the |
| 70 : | source directory by changing to the build directory and invoking | ||
| 71 : | configure thus: | ||
| 72 : | anton | 1.21 | |
| 73 : | $srcdir/configure | ||
| 74 : | |||
| 75 : | anton | 1.23 | where $srcdir is the source directory. (Note that we tested this only |
| 76 : | anton | 1.21 | for installation; i.e., if you want to hack the Gforth sources, you |
| 77 : | should probably build in the source directory). | ||
| 78 : | |||
| 79 : | pazsan | 1.4 | configure has the following useful parameters: |
| 80 : | anton | 1.9 | --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX |
| 81 : | [default: /usr/local] | ||
| 82 : | --exec-prefix=PREFIX install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX | ||
| 83 : | [default: same as prefix] | ||
| 84 : | anton | 1.8 | --enable-force-reg Use explicit register declarations if they appear in |
| 85 : | the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup, | ||
| 86 : | but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on | ||
| 87 : | some processors (default disabled). | ||
| 88 : | --help: tells you about other parameters. | ||
| 89 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 90 : | anton | 1.21 | The file Benchres shows which combination of the -enable options we |
| 91 : | tried gave the best results for various machines. | ||
| 92 : | |||
| 93 : | anton | 1.9 | If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you |
| 94 : | should override them already during configure. E.g., if you want to | ||
| 95 : | install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local | ||
| 96 : | anton | 1.15 | hierarchy, say |
| 97 : | anton | 1.5 | |
| 98 : | anton | 1.9 | ./configure --prefix=/gnu |
| 99 : | anton | 1.2 | |
| 100 : | anton | 1.17 | Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you |
| 101 : | should say so during configuration. E.g.: | ||
| 102 : | pazsan | 1.16 | |
| 103 : | anton | 1.35 | ./configure CC=gcc-2.7.1 |
| 104 : | pazsan | 1.16 | |
| 105 : | anton | 1.17 | You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you |
| 106 : | want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0: | ||
| 107 : | anton | 1.15 | |
| 108 : | anton | 1.35 | ./configure CC="gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0" |
| 109 : | anton | 1.15 | |
| 110 : | anton | 1.22 | You can change the sizes of the various areas used in the default |
| 111 : | image `gforth.fi' by passing the appropriate Gforth command line | ||
| 112 : | options in the FORTHSIZES environment variable: | ||
| 113 : | |||
| 114 : | anton | 1.35 | ./configure "FORTHSIZES=--dictionary-size=256k --data-stack-size=16k --fp-stack-size=15872b --return-stack-size=15k --locals-stack-size=14848b" |
| 115 : | anton | 1.22 | |
| 116 : | The line above reaffirms the default sizes. Note that the locals | ||
| 117 : | stack area is also used as input buffer stack. | ||
| 118 : | anton | 1.17 | |
| 119 : | anton | 1.24 | If C's "long long" do not work properly on your machine (i.e., if the |
| 120 : | tests involving double-cell numbers fail), you can build Gforth such | ||
| 121 : | that it does not use "long long": | ||
| 122 : | |||
| 123 : | anton | 1.35 | ./configure ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0 |
| 124 : | anton | 1.24 | |
| 125 : | |||
| 126 : | anton | 1.31 | Cross-Installation |
| 127 : | anton | 1.24 | |
| 128 : | anton | 1.31 | You need a cross-compilation toolchain for your target including gcc |
| 129 : | (2.0 or later). | ||
| 130 : | |||
| 131 : | The first step in cross-installation is the cross-configuration. A | ||
| 132 : | few tests made by the configure script do not work in a | ||
| 133 : | anton | 1.24 | cross-compilation situation. You have to provide the results of these |
| 134 : | tests by hand. E.g., if you compile for a 386 architecture processor: | ||
| 135 : | |||
| 136 : | anton | 1.32 | 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 |
| 137 : | anton | 1.24 | |
| 138 : | The ac_cv_sizeof_... variables give the sizes of various C types; | ||
| 139 : | ac_cv_sizeof_char_p is the same as "sizeof(char*)" in C code. The | ||
| 140 : | ac_cv_c_bigendian variable gives the byte order. | ||
| 141 : | anton | 1.31 | |
| 142 : | After the cross-configuration you type | ||
| 143 : | |||
| 144 : | make gforths | ||
| 145 : | |||
| 146 : | This produces the gforth engines for the target. | ||
| 147 : | |||
| 148 : | The next step is to transfer everything to the target; on the target, | ||
| 149 : | you do | ||
| 150 : | |||
| 151 : | make | ||
| 152 : | |||
| 153 : | to complete building gforth. If you do not have a make on the target, | ||
| 154 : | run | ||
| 155 : | |||
| 156 : | make -n | ||
| 157 : | |||
| 158 : | on the host; manually execute on the target the last command output by | ||
| 159 : | "make -n" (GFORTHD=...); the other commands output by "make -n" are | ||
| 160 : | not necessary unless you have changed the Gforth sources. You can | ||
| 161 : | then check and benchmark Gforth with | ||
| 162 : | |||
| 163 : | make check | ||
| 164 : | make bench | ||
| 165 : | |||
| 166 : | or equivalent. Finally, perform | ||
| 167 : | |||
| 168 : | make install | ||
| 169 : | |||
| 170 : | or the equivalent commands on the target. | ||
| 171 : | anton | 1.24 | |
| 172 : | |||
| 173 : | anton | 1.17 | Preloading installation-specific code |
| 174 : | |||
| 175 : | If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when | ||
| 176 : | Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands | ||
| 177 : | anton | 1.28 | for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs |
| 178 : | anton | 1.17 | (if the commands work for all architectures) or |
| 179 : | anton | 1.28 | /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs (for |
| 180 : | anton | 1.17 | architecture-specific commands); |
| 181 : | anton | 1.28 | /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs takes precedence if both |
| 182 : | anton | 1.17 | files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names |
| 183 : | given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have | ||
| 184 : | to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix. | ||
| 185 : | |||
| 186 : | By default, the installation procedure creates an empty | ||
| 187 : | anton | 1.28 | /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs if there is no such |
| 188 : | anton | 1.17 | file. |
| 189 : | |||
| 190 : | anton | 1.28 | If you change the siteinit.fs file, you should run "make install" |
| 191 : | anton | 1.17 | again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make |
| 192 : | install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient). | ||
| 193 : | |||
| 194 : | |||
| 195 : | anton | 1.12 | Multiple Versions and Deinstallation |
| 196 : | |||
| 197 : | Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same | ||
| 198 : | time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to | ||
| 199 : | keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed. | ||
| 200 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 201 : | anton | 1.12 | You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and |
| 202 : | version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also | ||
| 203 : | tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely. | ||
| 204 : | crook | 1.29 | |
| 205 : | |||
| 206 : | Installing Info Files | ||
| 207 : | |||
| 208 : | Info is the GNU project on-line documentation format. You can read | ||
| 209 : | info files either from within Emacs (Ctrl-h i) or using the | ||
| 210 : | stand-alone Info reader, 'info'. | ||
| 211 : | |||
| 212 : | If you use the default install root of '/usr/local' then the info | ||
| 213 : | files will be installed in '/usr/local/info'. | ||
| 214 : | |||
| 215 : | Many GNU/Linux distributions are set up to put all of their | ||
| 216 : | documentation in '/usr/info', in which case you might have to do a | ||
| 217 : | couple of things to get your environment set up to accommodate files | ||
| 218 : | in both areas: | ||
| 219 : | |||
| 220 : | 1. Add an INFOPATH environment variable. The easiest place to do | ||
| 221 : | this is '/etc/profile', right next to PATH and MANPATH: | ||
| 222 : | |||
| 223 : | INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info | ||
| 224 : | |||
| 225 : | 2. Create a file called 'dir' in 'usr/local/info'. Use the file | ||
| 226 : | '/usr/info/dir' as a template. You can add the line for gforth | ||
| 227 : | manually, or use '/sbin/install-info' (man install-info for details). |
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