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   Copyright (C) 2003,2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
   unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
   
   
                   Prerequisites
   
 You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.  You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.
   
   For the (documented) libcc.fs C interface you need a C compiler and
   libtool at run-time.
   
   For the (undocumented ) lib.fs C interface you need to install either
   the ffcall libraries or the libffi library.  Libffi comes with recent
   gccs, ffcall can be found on
   
      ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (USA) 
      ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ffcall-1.8.tar.gz (Europe) 
   
   On many architectures (exceptions: 386, PPC, MIPS, Alpha) you need gdb
   at run-time in order for the disassembler to work.
   
   
                   Building and Installing
   
 First, type  First, type
   
 ./configure  ./configure
   
   (see Section Configuration Options below for details).
   
   After configuration, type
   
   make
   
   This includes a check whether your shiny new Forth system works. If
   you like to invoke the check alone, do
   
   make check
   
   You can run some benchmarks with
   
   make bench
   
   and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
   
   If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type
   
   make install
   
   For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
   fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
   printers)), or say
   
   make gforth.dvi
   
   and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
   documentation in HTML format by typing
   
   make html
   
   If you prefer plain ASCII documentation, you can 
   
   make doc/gforth.txt
   
   or just concatenate the files gforth.info-* ('cat gforth.info-*' under
   Unix); the result of the latter option is a little worse.
   
   You can find binary distributions, documentation in HTML and plain
   text format and information on known installation problems at
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/.
   
   
                   Configuration Options
   
   If you use GNU make, you can build in a directory different from the
   source directory by changing to the build directory and invoking
   configure thus:
   
   $srcdir/configure
   
   where $srcdir is the source directory. (Note that we tested this only
   for installation; i.e., if you want to hack the Gforth sources, you
   should probably build in the source directory).
   
 configure has the following useful parameters:  configure has the following useful parameters:
   --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX    --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
                           [default: /usr/local]                            [default: /usr/local]
   --exec-prefix=PREFIX    install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX    --exec-prefix=PREFIX    install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
                           [default: same as prefix]                            [default: same as prefix]
   --enable-force-reg      Use explicit register declarations if they appear in  
                           the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,  
                           but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on  
                           some processors (default disabled).  
   --enable-direct-threaded      Force direct threading. This may not work on  
                                 some machines and may cause slowdown on others.  
                                 (default processor-dependent)  
   --enable-indirect-threaded    Force indirect threading. This can cause a  
                                 slowdown on some machines.  
                                 (default processor-dependent)  
   --with-debug     specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default)  
    --without-debug  omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on  
                     machines where strip has problems with gcc style  
                     debugging informations.  
   --help: tells you about other parameters.    --help: tells you about other parameters.
   
   The file Benchres shows the best gforth-fast performance that we
   achieved.
   
 If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you  If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
 should override them already during configure.  E.g., if you want to  should override them already during configure.  E.g., if you want to
 install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local  install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
 hirarchy, say  hierarchy, say
   
 ./configure --prefix=/gnu  ./configure --prefix=/gnu
   
 After, configuration, type  Moreover, if your GCC is not called gcc (but, e.g., gcc-2.7.1), you
   should say so during configuration. E.g.:
   
 make  ./configure CC=gcc-2.7.1
   
 If your make has trouble with the Makefile, "make gforth" might work.  You can also pass additional options to gcc in this way, e.g., if you
   want to generate an a.out executable under Linux with gcc-2.7.0:
   
 If your installed gcc isn't called "gcc" (e.g., called "gcc-2.6.1"), type  ./configure CC="gcc -b i486-linuxaout -V 2.7.0"
   
 make GCC=<whatever you call your gcc>  You can change the sizes of the various areas used in the default
   image `gforth.fi' by passing the appropriate Gforth command line
   options in the FORTHSIZES environment variable:
   
 instead.  ./configure "FORTHSIZES=--dictionary-size=1048576 --data-stack-size=16k --fp-stack-size=16K --return-stack-size=15k --locals-stack-size=14848b"
   
 Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say  The line above reaffirms the default sizes. Note that the locals
   stack area is also used as input buffer stack.
   
 make test  If C's "long long" do not work properly on your machine (i.e., if the
   tests involving double-cell numbers fail), you can build Gforth such
   that it does not use "long long":
   
 To make the documentation, type  ./configure ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=0
   
 make -k gforth.info gforth.ps html  For MacOS X on Core 2 processors, you might want to use the 64-bit
   version for increased speed (more registers available); you have to
   ask for that on configuration, as follows:
   
 If everything is allright, you may want to install gforth. Type  ./configure CC='gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64' --build=x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0
   
 make install  
   
 You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually. Also,                          Cross-Installation
 you have to install gforth.ps and html yourself.  
   There is currently no simple way to do cross-installation of Gforth
   (apart from Gforth EC).  The current build process interleaves
   compiling and running heavily, so multiple transfers between build and
   target machine would be required.  We don't have a testing environment
   for cross-compilation, so we cannot fix this at the moment.  If you
   want to do cross-installation, please contact us.
   
   In any case, you might find the following useful:
   
   You need a cross-compilation toolchain for your target including gcc
   (2.0 or later).
   
   The first step in cross-installation is the cross-configuration.  A
   few tests made by the configure script do not work in a
   cross-compilation situation. You have to provide the results of these
   tests by hand. E.g., if you compile for an ARM:
   
   env skipcode=".skip 16" ac_cv_sizeof_char_p=4 ac_cv_sizeof_void_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_sizeof_uint128_t=0 \
   ac_cv_c_bigendian=no ./configure CC=arm-elf-gcc --host=arm-linux
   
   The ac_cv_sizeof_... variables give the sizes of various C types;
   ac_cv_sizeof_char_p is the same as "sizeof(char*)" in C code. The
   ac_cv_c_bigendian variable gives the byte order.  The skipcode
   specifies how to skip 16 bytes in the code (use "skipcode=no" to
   disable skipping and dynamic native code generation).
   
   
                   Preloading installation-specific code
   
   If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
   Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
   for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs
   (if the commands work for all architectures) or
   /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs (for
   architecture-specific commands);
   /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs takes precedence if both
   files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
   given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
   to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
   
   By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
   /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/siteinit.fs if there is no such
   file.
   
   If you change the siteinit.fs file, you should run "make install"
   again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
   install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
   
   
                   Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
   
 A possible problem:  Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
   time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
   keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
   
 You need to read this only if you see a message like  You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
   version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
   tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
   
 "gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address 0x1234) at address 0x5678  
 The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file"  
   
 Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load                  Installing Info Files
 normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address  
 image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult.  
   
 Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel  Info is the GNU project on-line documentation format. You can read
 (kernal.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of  info files either from within Emacs (Ctrl-h i) or using the
 Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To  stand-alone Info reader, 'info'.
 avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the  
 installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address  
 determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This  
 fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works,  
 because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same  
 address. If the address changes, you get the message above.  
   
 An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth  If you use the default install root of '/usr/local' then the info
 executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you  files will be installed in '/usr/local/info'.
 just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with  
   
 rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install  Many GNU/Linux distributions are set up to put all of their
   documentation in '/usr/info', in which case you might have to do a
   couple of things to get your environment set up to accommodate files
   in both areas:
   
 If you get such a message with a different address in place of the  1. Add an INFOPATH environment variable. The easiest place to do
 0x5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address  this is '/etc/profile', right next to PATH and MANPATH:
 images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start  
 searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the  
 meantime, start gforth with  
   
 gforth -i kernal.fi startup.fs  INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info
   
   2. Create a file called 'dir' in 'usr/local/info'. Use the file
   '/usr/info/dir' as a template. You can add the line for gforth
   manually, or use '/sbin/install-info' (man install-info for details).

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