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This is a nightly snapshot of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
This release 1.1 of Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme
implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent
execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building
extensible programs.
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Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Important Facts About Snapshots ======================================
About This Distribution ==============================================
The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from
prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/guile-core-1.1.tar.gz.
Via the web, that's: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-core-1.1.tar.gz
For getit, that's: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/guile-core-1.1.tar.gz
The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and
fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Building and installing this distribution gives you:
guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in
/usr/local/bin. With no arguments, this is a simple
interactive Scheme interpreter. It can also be used as an
interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
usually installed in /usr/local/lib. You can use Guile in
your own programs by linking against this.
libqt.a --- an object library containing the QuickThreads primitives.
If you enabled thread support when you configured Guile, you
will need to link your code against this too.
<libguile.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for libguile.a, usually
installed in /usr/local/include.
Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
libguile:
The Guile Scheme interpreter --- both the object library
for you to link with your programs, and the executable you can run.
ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
qt: A cooperative threads package from Washington University,
which Guile can use. If you configure Guile with the
--with-threads flag, you will need to link against the -lqt
library, found in this directory. Qt is under a separate
copyright; see `qt/README' for more details.
(The present release doesn't include any documentation; the Guile
manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised.)
Nightly Snapshots ====================================================
We make nightly snapshots of the Guile development sources available
via anonymous FTP.
Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; they
will usually not be well-tested, and may not even compile on some
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And it allows us to start testing features earlier.
Nightly snapshots of the Guile development sources are available via
anonymous FTP from ftp.cyclic.com, as /pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz.
anonymous FTP from ftp.cyclic.com, as /pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz.
Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz
For getit, that's: ftp.cyclic.com:/pub/guile/guile-snap.tar.gz
The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from
prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz.
Via the web, that's: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz
For getit, that's: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz
The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
guile-request@cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug reports (and
fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
About This Distribution ==============================================
Building and installing this distribution gives you:
guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in
/usr/local/bin. With no arguments, this is a simple
interactive Scheme interpreter. It can also be used as an
interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
usually installed in /usr/local/lib. You can use Guile in
your own programs by linking against this.
<libguile.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for libguile.a, usually
installed in /usr/local/include.
Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
doc: Documentation for Guile, in Texinfo form. (At the moment, these
manuals are incomplete and are currently being revised.)
libguile:
The Guile Scheme interpreter --- both the object library
for you to link with your programs, and the executable you can run.
ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
qt: A cooperative threads package from Washington University,
which Guile can use. If you configure Guile with the
--with-threads flag, you will need to link against the -lqt
library, found in this directory. Qt is under a separate
copyright; see `qt/README' for more details.
Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
For getit, that's: ftp.cyclic.com:/pub/guile/guile-core-snap.tar.gz
Hacking It Yourself ==================================================
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are the following:
Autoconf 2.12 --- a system for automatically generating `configure'
scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
program would like to use. Available in
"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
program would like to use. Available in
"ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
Automake 1.1p --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards. The
nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
Makefile dependencies. Available in
"ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey".
conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards. The
nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
Makefile dependencies. Available in
"ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey".
libtool 0.9d --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in
"ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu".
on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in
"ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu".
You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
different.
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Authors And Contributors =============================================