1: You need DJ Delorie's port of GCC to DOS (DJGPP) to compile Gforth. DJGPP
2: provides a DOS extender (GO32) that allows to use the 32-bit features of
3: the 80386, but on the other hand it requires at least an 386.
4:
5: Gforth hasn't been tested with EMX, using EMX will require some changes in
6: the console IO part. If you don't want to install this package (quite
7: large), look for a binary distribution of Gforth for DOS. You must have a
8: version of GNU make, because DOS make programs are likely to have problems
9: with the Makefile. If you want to change Gforth, you may need GNU m4, too.
10:
11: If you don't bother and want to make it yourself, type
12:
13: configure
14:
15: There are no options for configure, because DOS can't execute a real
16: configure script, all the configuring stuff is done on a real operating
17: system. If you want to change something (e.g. use FORCE_REG or
18: DIRECT_THREADED), you have to change the makefile yourself. Be careful! DOS
19: command line arguments are limited to an overall size of 126 bytes, so
20: adding a new define in the makefile will make it too long. In this case add
21: the define at the beginning of machine.h instead, or create a file
22: containing all extra options, and add @<filename> to the defines (move the
23: -DDEFAULTPATH-define into this file, and it will fit into the command line).
24:
25: After covering all inconveniences, type
26:
27: make gforth
28:
29: and after this finishes, type
30:
31: make
32:
33: We apologize for the inconveniences, we did not invent the 640k limit
34: that prevents doing make straight forward. You may run out of memory
35: anyway, because GCC eats up lots of it while compiling engine.c. Keep
36: enough space free on your harddisk to allow GCC to swap.
37:
38: If you want to add some defines like -DFORCE_REG, type
39:
40: make gforth XDEFINES=-DFORCE_REG
41:
42: instead.
43:
44: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
45:
46: make test
47:
48: You can run some benchmarks with
49:
50: make bench
51:
52: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
53:
54: Don't try to do "make install", it won't work, either. It is not possible to
55: "make dist" or "make bindist", too, because of the limitations of DOS
56: command lines.
57:
58: Add the following entry to your Autoexec.bat:
59:
60: SET GFORTHPATH=<your gforth source directory>:.
61:
62: Use / instead of \ in your gforth source directory. Another problem
63: is, that Gforth uses : as path separator, and DOS pathes may look like
64: D:/gforth. Sorry, there is no workaround for this now.
65:
66: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
67: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
68: printers)), or say
69:
70: make gforth.dvi
71:
72: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi (you need TeX for that! But
73: with TeX you can print it even if you don't have a Postscript printer
74: nor Ghostscript). You could be able to make a html version of the
75: document, but AFAIK there is no texi2html for DOS available, as there
76: is no perl available.
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