1: You need gcc version 2.0 or later to compile gforth.
2:
3: First, type
4:
5: ./configure
6:
7: or better
8:
9: CC=gcc ./configure
10:
11: or however your gcc is called; because configure needs cc to find out some
12: parameters, and there may be differences in what is obtained from gcc and
13: from ghe default cc.
14:
15: configure has the following useful parameters:
16: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
17: [default: /usr/local]
18: --exec-prefix=PREFIX install architecture-dependent files in PREFIX
19: [default: same as prefix]
20: --enable-force-reg Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
21: the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,
22: but also incorrect code with some gcc versions on
23: some processors (default disabled).
24: --enable-direct-threaded Force direct threading. This may not work on
25: some machines and may cause slowdown on others.
26: (default processor-dependent)
27: --enable-indirect-threaded Force indirect threading. This can cause a
28: slowdown on some machines.
29: (default processor-dependent)
30: --with-debug specifies option -g to compile with debug info (default)
31: --without-debug omits the -g switch and creates smaller images on
32: machines where strip has problems with gcc style
33: debugging informations.
34: --help: tells you about other parameters.
35:
36: If you don't like the defaults for the installation directories, you
37: should override them already during configure. E.g., if you want to
38: install in the /gnu hierarchy instead of in the default /usr/local
39: hirarchy, say
40:
41: ./configure --prefix=/gnu
42:
43: After, configuration, type
44:
45: make
46:
47: If your make has trouble with the Makefile, "make gforth" might work.
48:
49: If your installed gcc isn't called "gcc" (e.g., called "gcc-2.6.1"), type
50:
51: make GCC=<whatever you call your gcc>
52:
53: instead.
54:
55: Now you can check whether your shiny new Forth system works. Say
56:
57: make test
58:
59: You can run some benchmarks with
60:
61: make bench
62:
63: and compare them with the results in Benchres and in the manual.
64:
65: If everything is all right, you may want to install gforth. Type
66:
67: make install
68:
69: You have to make an entry in the info directory file manually.
70:
71: For paper documentation, print gforth.ps (a Postscript file (300dpi
72: fonts, i.e., it works, but does not produce best quality on better
73: printers)), or say
74:
75: make gforth.dvi
76:
77: and print the resulting file gforth.dvi. You can also get the
78: documentation in HTML format by typing
79:
80: make html
81:
82:
83: Preloading installation-specific code
84:
85: If you want to have some installation-specific files loaded when
86: Gforth starts (e.g., an assembler for your processor), put commands
87: for loading them into /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs
88: (if the commands work for all architectures) or
89: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs (for
90: architecture-specific commands);
91: /usr/local/lib/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs takes precedence if both
92: files are present (unless you change the search path). The file names
93: given above are the defaults; if you have changed the prefix, you have
94: to replace "/usr/local" in these names with your prefix.
95:
96: By default, the installation procedure creates an empty
97: /usr/local/share/gforth/site-forth/site-init.fs if there is no such
98: file.
99:
100: If you change the site-init.fs file, you should run "make install"
101: again for the changes to take effect (Actually, the part of "make
102: install" starting with "rm gforth.fi" is sufficient).
103:
104:
105: Multiple Versions and Deinstallation
106:
107: Several versions of Gforth can be installed and used at the same
108: time. Version `foo' can be invoked with `gforth-foo'. We recommend to
109: keep the old version for some time after a new one has been installed.
110:
111: You can deinstall this version of Gforth with 'make uninstall' and
112: version foo with 'make uninstall VERSION=foo'. 'make uninstall' also
113: tells you how to uninstall Gforth completely.
114:
115:
116: A Possible Problem
117:
118: You need to read this only if you see a message like
119:
120: "gforth: Cannot load nonrelocatable image (compiled for address 0x1234) at address 0x5678
121: The Gforth installer should look into the INSTALL file"
122:
123: Gforth supports both relocatable and fixed-address images. If you load
124: normal Forth code and save the image, you get a fixed-address
125: image. Producing a relocatable image is more difficult.
126:
127: Therefore, Gforth has only a relocatable image of the kernel
128: (kernal.fi), which is powerful enough to load the rest of
129: Gforth. However, loading the rest takes a noticable amount of time. To
130: avoid this delay (which would occur on every startup), the
131: installation procedure produces an image fixed at an address
132: determined at the Gforth run that produced the image. This
133: fixed-address image is loaded by default. On most OSs this works,
134: because the first chunk of memory is always allocated at the same
135: address. If the address changes, you get the message above.
136:
137: An image address change can be caused by a change of the gforth
138: executable, or by a change (upgrade) of the OS; in these cases you
139: just have to rebuild and reinstall the fixed address image with
140:
141: rm gforth.fi; make gforth.fi; make install
142:
143: If you get such a message with a different address in place of the
144: 0x5678 each time you try to start gforth, you cannot use fixed-address
145: images on your OS. In this case, send us a message so that we start
146: searching for a comfortable solution to this problem. In the
147: meantime, start gforth with
148:
149: gforth -i kernal.fi startup.fs
150:
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