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Brief Installation Instructions ===========================================
To build Guile on unix, there are two basic steps:
1. Configure the package by running the configure script.
2. Build the package by running make.
1. Type "./configure", to configure the package for your system.
2. Type "make", to build the package.
Generic instructions for configuring and compiling GNU distributions
are included below. Here is an illustration of commands that might be
used to build Guile. The voluminous output of the commands is not shown.
are included below. For Guile, you might type the commands below.
Their voluminous output is not shown.
% tar xvfz guile-snap.tar.gz # unpack the sources
% cd guile-snap
% ./configure
% make
$ tar xvfz guile-970416.tar.gz # unpack the sources
$ cd guile-970416
$ ./configure # adapt Guile to your system
$ make # compile Guile
$ make install # install in the usual places
What You Get ==============================================================
The `configure' script examines your system, and adapts Guile to
compile and run on it.
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The `make' command builds several things:
- An executable file `guile/guile', which is an interactive shell for
talking with the Guile Scheme interpreter.
- An object library `guile/libguile.a', containing the Guile Scheme
- An object library `libguile/.libs/libguile.a', containing the Guile Scheme
interpreter, ready to be linked into your programs.
- An object library `gtcltk-lib/libgtcltk.a', containing a simple
- An object library `gtcltk-lib/.libs/libgtcltk.a', containing a simple
interface between Guile and Tcl/Tk. This is only built if the
configure script notices that you have the appropriate version of
Tcl/Tk installed on your system already. If it is installed, `make'
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and libraries mentioned above, as well as Guile's header files and
Scheme libraries.
Make also builds shared libraries, on systems that support them.
Because of the nature of shared libraries, before linking against
them, you should probably install them; `make install' takes care of
this.
Flags Accepted by Configure ===============================================
If you run the configure script with no arguments, it should examine
your system and set things up appropriately. However, there are a few
switches specific to Guile you may find useful in some circumstances.
--enable-maintainer-mode --- If you have automake, autoconf, and
libtool installed on your system, this switch causes configure to
generate Makefiles which know how to automatically regenerate
configure scripts, makefiles, and headers, when they are out of date.
The README file says which versions of those tools you will need.
--with-threads --- Build a Guile executable and library that supports
cooperative threading. If you use this switch, Guile will also build
and install the QuickThreads non-preemptive threading library,
libqt.a, which you will need to link into your programs after
libguile.a. That is, you should pass the switches -lguile -qt to your
linker. Coop threads are not yet thoroughly tested; once they are,
they will be enabled by default.
--enable-dynamic-linking --- Build a Guile executable and library that
supports dynamic linking, on systems that support it. This feature is
not yet thoroughly tested; once it is, it will be enabled by default.
--disable-shared --- Do not build shared libraries. Normally, Guile
will build shared libraries if your system supports them. Guile
always builds static libraries.
Using Guile Without Installing It =========================================
If you want to run Guile without installing it, set the environment
variable `SCHEME_LOAD_PATH' to a colon-separated list of directories,
including the directory containing this INSTALL file. For example, if
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if you're using CSH or one of its variants.
Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages
==========================================================
Generic Instructions for Building Auto-Configured Packages ================
To compile this package: