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✼	12/1/2015 - Emacs Lisp code: Easily Search for Text You've Selected (Emacs Lisp)
✼	12/2/2015 - Emacs Lisp code: Right-Click to Highlight and Select Name - Sort of Like Notepad++ (Emacs Lisp)
✼	12/4/2015 - Emacs Lisp code: Mouse-Clickable Search Results in Helm (with some glitches) (Emacs Lisp)
✼	12/9/2015 - Links: "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" poem (Languages - Chinese)
✼	12/12/2015 - Links: Buffalo buffalo, etc. (Languages - English)
✼	12/15/2015 - Emacs Add-On: multifiles-apmod.el (Emacs Lisp - Add-On)
✼	12/27/2015 - How to compile GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 (Puppy Linux)
✼	12/27/2015 - How to compile newLISP in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 (Puppy Linux)
✼	12/27/2015 - Some thoughts on Lisp (Software)
✼	12/29/2015 - Was able to compile PHP 7.0.1 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8, but couldn't compile PHP-GTK 2.0.1 to work with PHP 7.0.1 (Puppy Linux)
✼	12/29/2015 - How to compile GNU Guile 2.0.11 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 (Puppy Linux)
✼	12/30/2015 - How to compile Guile-Gnome 2.16.4 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 (Puppy Linux)

Emacs Lisp code: Easily Search for Text You've Selected

Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
13:42:54 GMT

(Updated at 9:27 AM EST.) I finally ran across a nice, slick way to be able to immediately search for the text I've selected in Emacs.

Most good text editors have something like that feature by default - but not Emacs, which was another maddening nuisance for me until today.

I found two solutions in this StackOverflow page. I prefer this solution, reproduced below.

(defun jrh-isearch-with-region ()
  "Use region as the isearch text."
  (when mark-active
    (let ((region (funcall region-extract-function nil)))
      (deactivate-mark)
      (isearch-push-state)
      (isearch-yank-string region))))

(add-hook 'isearch-mode-hook #'jrh-isearch-with-region)

I prefer the above because it even makes backward searching with C-r work right, not just forward searching with C-s, and acts normal when you search without selecting any text.

The original solution I tried only fixes forward searching, and erroneously selects blocks of text if you try to search without selecting any text. The second "search-selection" function from this StackOverflow post, reproduced below, along with the commands I added to my .emacs file to change the keychord C-s to make it use the "search-selection" function instead of "isearch-forward":

    (defun search-selection (beg end)
      "search for selected text"
      (interactive "r")
      (let (
            (selection (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))
           )
        (deactivate-mark)
        (isearch-mode t nil nil nil)
        (isearch-yank-string selection)
      )
    )

(global-unset-key (kbd "C-s"))
    ; 17:09 11/06/2015.  Originally "isearch-forward".

(define-key global-map (kbd "C-s") 'search-selection)

Prior to finding the above solutions in this StackOverflow post, the closest thing I had to a solution was the excellent highlight-symbol.el add-on.

Th highlight-symbol.el add-on is still very useful to me. The way I have it set up, I can press a single key - F4 - to search for whatever word (or function name, or whatever - even if it contains dashes and/or underscores) the point is resting inside. I can press Ctrl-F3 to easily replace that text. And I can press F3 to highlight that text throughout a buffer.

But, the highlight-symbol.el add-on doesn't provide a way to search for any arbitrary selected text, since that add-on doesn't require you to select text, nor pay any attention if you do select some text.

I'm still looking for a way to easily replace selected text, and will update this post if/when I find a way.

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Emacs Lisp code: Right-Click to Highlight and Select Name - Sort of Like Notepad++
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
06:47:22 GMT

Emacs Lisp

The text (and code) editor Notepad++ has a nice feature where all you have to do to temporarily highlight a name (such as a variable name, function name, command name, or other words) everywhere is double-click on it.

Emacs doesn't do that out of the box, and I didn't find a way to make Emacs behave exactly like Notepad++.

But, I like the below behavior more in some ways anyway.

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.5.1. The below requires three add-ons:

highlight-symbol.el
thing-cmds.el
hide-comnt.el - which "thing-cmds.el" depends on.

Here's all the code I had to add to my .emacs settings file:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;                       Add-on: Highlight Symbol
;
;
; 11:50 11/11/2015; 3:23 AM 12/2/2015. It's quite nice being able to 
; just press F4 to go to the next thing which is the same as the 
; thing where your cursor is.  15:43 11/14/2015.  Which
; you don't even have to highlight for F4 to work on it.

(require 'highlight-symbol)

(global-set-key [f3] 'highlight-symbol)
(global-set-key [f4] 'highlight-symbol-next)
(global-set-key [(shift f4)] 'highlight-symbol-prev)
(global-set-key [(control f3)] 'highlight-symbol-query-replace)
    
(highlight-symbol-mode)


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;                       Add-on: Thing Commands
;
;

(require 'thing-cmds)


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;                       Functions by Apollia:
;
;

(defun Apollia_Func----Highlight_Symbol_and_Select_Things_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning( EVENT )

"Highlights the entire symbol under the point (cursor) using the (highlight-symbol) function from highlight-symbol.el.  Then, marks (selects) the word under the point (cursor).  Doesn't mark the entire symbol unless you clicked on a dash or underscore.  And skips marking dollar signs at the beginning, to make it easier to search for PHP variable names without their $ prefix."

	(interactive "e")
	
; 00:30 12/02/2015.  Here, we have to actually place the point at the spot
; the user clicked - otherwise the point will just stay where it was.
	
	(let ((p1 (posn-point (event-start EVENT)) ) )
		(goto-char p1)
	)
		
	(highlight-symbol)
	
	;(let ((p1 (posn-point (event-start EVENT)) ) )
	;	(goto-char p1)
		(if (or	(char-equal ?- (char-after) ) 
				(char-equal ?_ (char-after) )
			)
; If the character after point 
; (hopefully the character the user clicked on)
; was a dash or underscore,
; then
			(Apollia_Func----Select_Symbol_at_Point_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning)
; else
			(Apollia_Func----Select_Word_at_Point_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning)
		)
	;)
)


(defun Apollia_Func----Select_Symbol_at_Point_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning()

"Select the symbol under the point (cursor).  Skips dollar signs at the beginning to make it easier to search for PHP variable names without their $ prefix."

	(beginning-of-thing 'symbol)
	(skip-chars-forward "$")
	(mark-thing 'symbol )
)



(defun Apollia_Func----Select_Word_at_Point_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning()

"Select the word under the point (cursor). Skips dollar signs at the beginning to make it easier to search for PHP variable names without their $ prefix."

	(beginning-of-thing 'word)
	(skip-chars-forward "$")
	(mark-thing 'word )
)


(global-set-key [mouse-3] 'Apollia_Func----Highlight_Symbol_and_Select_Things_Except_Dollar_Signs_at_Beginning)

Sorry, I don't know how to get rid of the "Wrong type argument: syntax-table-p, nil" error message. But it seems to work fine despite that error message.

And the above code does interfere with whatever right-clicking is supposed to do by default. But the original default behavior of right-click was rather dangerous and useless-seeming - unexpectedly selecting blocks of text and often deleting any text that was already selected - so I'm glad to be rid of that, whatever that was.

After adding the above code and add-ons to your Emacs, it should be possible to right-click on a name to highlight that name everywhere persistently.

The highlighting persists forever until you either right-click on the name again, or run the (highlight-symbol) function in some other way, such as clicking on the name and pressing F3 - the key I've bound to (highlight-symbol).

Right-clicking not only highlights the name, but also selects (or "marks", in Emacs jargon) some, most, or all of the name under your cursor (or "point", in Emacs jargon).

If you right-clicked on a dash or underscore in the name, the entire (or almost entire) name gets selected. Excluding any dollar signs at the beginning, to make it easier to select the names of PHP variables without their $ prefix. (But if you ever actually want to also select the dollar sign, a normal left double-click on a PHP variable name, or an underscore inside it, should accomplish that.)

If you right-clicked anything other than a dash or underscore, the only thing that gets selected is the word you clicked. So, you can easily select individual words in a function or variable name with dashes or underscores in it - something I never figured out how to do in Notepad++.

However, in Emacs, I don't know how to make it possible to so easily persistently highlight (as opposed to select) just individual words, because highlight-symbol.el pays no attention to what text you have or haven't selected - it just highlights the entire name it detects where your cursor (point) is.

But, doing a search while using the code from this previous blog post - Emacs Lisp code: Easily Search for Text You've Selected - will let you easily and case-insensitively put a temporary highlight on any arbitrary currently-selected text.

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Emacs Lisp code: Mouse-Clickable Search Results in Helm (with some glitches)
Friday, December 4th, 2015
14:24:50 GMT

Emacs Lisp

Helm is one of the most useful add-ons I've found for the GNU Emacs operating system - uh, I mean, text editor - so far.

Helm makes it tremendously easier to find all sorts of things such as files, buffers, function names, variable names, and text within files or buffers. In many Helm modes, you can just type a few letters, and Helm will narrow down your search and instantly display updated results.

Helm also gives you a way to browse and search your "imenu", which is where php-mode puts a list of functions defined in the PHP file (or multifile!) you're currently looking at.

And you can easily go to any of those functions by selecting its name in the Helm search results and pressing Return or Ctrl-j. Or, thanks to the below code, by double-clicking or right-clicking on any item in the Helm search results with your mouse.

By default, the Helm add-on has no mouse capabilities at all. So, I kept accidentally trying to click Helm results, resulting in nothing happening.

That seemed like the sort of thing someone probably already wrote an add-on to fix, so I searched the web, and soon found this post on Reddit:

Select helm candidate by using mouse (click)

To my delight, that code worked quite well out of the box. But, it globally overwrote my preferred mouse click settings, so, I had to figure out how to make some custom mouse click settings that would only be in effect while Helm was running.

Even though my final result wasn't very much code in the end, it still took me hours and lots of trial and error to figure out how to do it, and I wasn't sure I ever would figure it out. But somehow, I managed to cobble together the below code, which uses most of the code provided in the abovementioned Reddit post, plus some other code to create a custom minor mode which is supposed to only run when Helm is active.

Since I'm such an Emacs newbie, it would have taken quite a lot longer if I hadn't been able to stand on the shoulders of numerous giants, such as the author of the code in the abovementioned Reddit post, and all the authors of all the web pages and documentation I read that helped me figure out how to do this.

Thanks to everyone!

I still haven't figured out how to make the below code not get confused by mouse-wheel scrolling, and there could be other glitches too.

But, it still makes Emacs and Helm more cozy and intuitive to use.

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.5.1. And I'm not sure what version of the Helm add-on - all I know is I downloaded it on Nov. 13, 2015 at 6:22:26 AM EST from GitHub.

The below code only requires the Helm add-on, and can just be copied and pasted into your .emacs settings file, probably somewhere after the place in your settings code where you loaded Helm.

; Settings to somewhat glitchily make it possible to click Helm search results with the mouse.
;
; Uses a lot of code from:
;
; https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/376won/select_helm_candidate_by_using_mouse_click/
;
;
; I (Apollia) had to modify that code because its included mouse click settings
; globally overwrote my own preferred custom mouse click settings.
;
; Finished and released 2015-12-04.  Edited a bit on 2015-12-05 to change some jargon to make things easier to understand.


(define-minor-mode Apollia_Minor_Mode---Clickable-Helm-Results----Minor-Mode
	"This minor mode makes mouse clicks work - though a bit glitchily - in Helm.

One left click:
	Selects an item without doing anything else.

Left double-click
	or
right-click:
	Selects an item and executes Helm's current persistent action for items of that type.


One glitch is, scrolling down the Helm search results using mouse wheel scrolling somehow makes Helm get confused about what items you're clicking on.

But you can temporarily get rid of that confusion and make mouse clicks work properly again by pressing navigational keyboard keys such as the arrow keys.


Sometimes it gets so hopelessly confused all you can do is restart Helm.  

Maybe try pressing C-g to dismiss Helm and M-x to bring Helm back.

Or, you can try the helm-resume command, which, by default, is bound to: 

	C-x c b


I don't yet know how to make it execute Helm's primary action for an item and then dismiss Helm, which is what I'd prefer to have left double-click do.


Overall, this mouse-enabling minor mode works better than I originally thought it did.  It turned out one of the glitches I had with Helm somehow resulted from the Purpose add-on: http://github.com/bmag/emacs-purpose

Somehow, the Purpose add-on caused help pages summoned by Helm to show up in the wrong window pane and accidentally kill my Helm sessions.

Not even setting the variable purpose-preferred-prompt to 'helm' fixed that problem, so, I had to turn off the Purpose add-on."

	:keymap '(
				( [mouse-1] . helm-select-candidate-by-mouse ) 
				( [double-mouse-1] .
					Func----Select_Candidate_by_Mouse_and_Execute_Helm_Persistent_Action ) 
					
				( [mouse-3] .
					Func----Select_Candidate_by_Mouse_and_Execute_Helm_Persistent_Action )
			 )

	(unless helm-alive-p
		(setq Apollia_Minor_Mode---Clickable-Helm-Results----Minor-Mode nil)
	)
	; 2015-12-04 05:40:11.  This minor mode tries to shut itself off if Helm isn't currently active.
)


(defun helm-select-candidate-by-mouse (prefix event)
"Select helm candidate by using mouse(click).  With PREFIX, also execute its first action.

Not by Apollia.  It's from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/376won/select_helm_candidate_by_using_mouse_click/

But, I (Apollia) slightly modified it.  And, to make it easier to read and understand, I changed the whitespace and indentation a lot, and added comments."
	(interactive "P\ne")
	(if 	(helm-alive-p)
		(progn
			(with-helm-buffer
				(let* (	(posn (elt event 1) )
						(cursor (line-number-at-pos (point) ) )
						(pointer (line-number-at-pos (posn-point posn) ) )
			   		)
	            
					(if	(= pointer cursor)
						; if pointer and cursor are equal, do nothing:
						()
						; else
						(helm--next-or-previous-line 
							(if (> pointer cursor)
								;then
								'next
								;else
								'previous
							)
							(abs (- pointer cursor) )
						)
					)
				)
			)
			(when prefix (helm-maybe-exit-minibuffer) )
		)
		(mouse-drag-region event)
	)
)



(defun Func----Select_Candidate_by_Mouse_and_Execute_Helm_Persistent_Action (prefix event)
"A slightly modified version of helm-select-candidate-by-mouse, which wasn't by Apollia.  I'd rather not have so much duplicated code, but I'm too much of an impatient Emacs newbie to figure out how to do things better, yet.

Selects Helm candidate by using the mouse click position, and executes Helm persistent action immediately thereafter."
	(interactive "P\ne")
	(if 	(helm-alive-p)
		(progn
			(with-helm-buffer
				(let* (	(posn (elt event 1) )
						(cursor (line-number-at-pos (point) ) )
						(pointer (line-number-at-pos (posn-point posn) ) )
			   		)
	            
					(if	(= pointer cursor)
						; if pointer and cursor are equal, do nothing:
						()
						; else
						(helm--next-or-previous-line 
							(if (> pointer cursor)
								;then
								'next
								;else
								'previous
							)
							(abs (- pointer cursor) )
						)
					)
				)
				 (helm-execute-persistent-action)
			)
		;	(when prefix (helm-maybe-exit-minibuffer) )
		)
		(mouse-drag-region event)
	)
)


(add-hook 'helm--remap-mouse-mode-hook  'Apollia_Minor_Mode---Clickable-Helm-Results----Minor-Mode )

While trying to debug the above, I figured out that one glitch I had actually wasn't caused by the above.

I figured out that the Purpose add-on interferes with Helm by somehow making Helm open help text in the wrong window pane - usually Helm's own window pane - which accidentally kills Helm sessions. The only solution to that I found so far was to turn off the Purpose add-on.

Edit, 2:47/3:08 PM EST. Added some missing backslashes to the above code. And changed some wording.

By the way, I actually often make small, usually unmentioned edits to my blog posts after I publish them - but this edit seems important to point out because the lack of those backslashes probably could have stopped the code from working properly.

I guess the vanishing backslash problem is another thing I need to fix in my WordsPlatz blog software. WordsPlatz has served me well with scarcely any changes since 2009, but, I actually am still interested in updating it and improving it.

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Links: "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" poem
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
18:43:41 GMT

Languages
Chinese

About 20 minutes ago, I stumbled across this amusing poem in Chinese, written exclusively in characters pronounced "shi" (with different tones):

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

And here's a blog post I found with an in-depth analysis, at a blog called A Cup of Fine Tea:

�Shi and the Ten Stone Lions�: Riddle or Nonsense?

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Links: Buffalo buffalo, etc.
Saturday, December 12th, 2015
18:31:41 GMT

Languages
English

Supposedly this is a grammatically correct English sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Amusing, though a bit hard to believe. But hey, it was in Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone, so it must be true. :-)

Even this video makes more sense. :-)

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Emacs Add-On: multifiles-apmod.el
Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
21:12:56 GMT

Emacs Lisp
Add-On

I finally managed to make most of the modifications and additions I wanted to make to Magnar Sveen's incredibly useful "multifiles.el" add-on for GNU Emacs.

Here's multifiles-apmod.el on GitHub:

https://github.com/Apollia/multifiles-apmod.el

(Addition, Jan. 10, 2016, 4:52 PM: Updated to Version 2.0, which partway fixes a really bad glitch I discovered today.)

Addition, 12/21/2015, 2:07 AM EST: Recently figured out and uploaded a slightly better solution to the slowness of my large PHP multifiles - perly-php-mode.el, which is simply perl-mode.el slightly modified to masquerade as php-mode. 12/24/2015, 5:24 AM EST: Released version 1.2.)

It's so nice finally being able to mindlessly scroll around my entire projects (at least the smaller projects) all in one page. I don't have to do searches nor even click tabs to get around.

Now, my difficulty remembering which files I put whatever things into won't get in my way as much anymore. If I space out and forget something, I can just daydreamily float around until something scrolls by which reminds me. Much more effortless and relaxing than having to click from tab to tab, or try to remember what I named things so I can do searches.

And searching is easier too, with everything apparently being in the same file.

Someday, I'd like to have an even more bizarre code editor with a concept map layout similar to VUE, or something like Code Bubbles (which I still haven't tried yet but which seems really cool, from what I've read/seen).

But, I think multifiles-apmod.el and GNU Emacs will already suffice to make it tremendously easier and more comfortable for me to get most any of my projects done.

Hopefully others will find it useful too. Perhaps even non-programmers might like it, such as anyone who likes Scrivener's Scrivenings mode.

So, I guess now I can finally return to working on my usual projects again.

I still haven't 100% perfected my Emacs setup, but, it's already mostly more comfortable for me to use than even my previous favorite editors, Notepad++ and Geany.

So, I think this might be the beginning of a golden age or renaissance for my programming hobby (or maybe almost career).

Tremendous thanks to everyone who made this possible!

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How to compile GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8
Sunday, December 27th, 2015
14:39:57 GMT

Puppy Linux

I had a tough time compiling GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12 from scratch in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004.

But, I finally managed to do it. Here's how:

GNU Common Lisp can do things with Tcl/Tk, but only if you have Tcl/Tk installed.
As far as I know, Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 doesn't include Tcl/Tk by default. So, if you want Tcl/Tk, you can download their source code here:

https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.html
I downloaded version 8.6.4 of both Tcl and Tk.
Both Tcl and Tk were nice and easy to compile. I don't know if you have to compile and install them in a particular order, but I think I compiled and installed Tcl first.
All I had to do was unzip each source code tarball, open the source code folder, open a terminal window, and put in these three commands:

./configure make make install

(Though I actually used the command "new2dir make install" (without quotes) because I wanted to make .pet and .sfs files.)
GNU Common Lisp itself was far more troublesome to compile. You can download its source code here:

http://gnu.mirror.iweb.com/gcl/gcl-2.6.12.tar.gz
Unzip the source code tarball. And if you want to make a .pet or .sfs file of make .pet and .sfs files, rename the gcl folder to "gcl-2.6.12" (or whichever version you're trying to compile).
Next, open your gcl source code folder, then open the "h" folder. Then, open the "make-init.h" file in a text editor.
Above the line which says "#include <signal.h>" (without quotes), add this line:

#include <sys/ucontext.h>

(Huge thanks to the author of this post for the solution, because without that post I would have had absolutely no clue at all what to do.)
The above fix makes it so the compilation won't be stopped by these errors:

echo '}' >> new_init.c gcc -c -Wall -fsigned-char -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -pipe -I/root/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk new_init.c -o new_init.o new_init.c: In function 'NewInit': new_init.c:689: error: 'ucontext_t' undeclared (first use in this function) new_init.c:689: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once new_init.c:689: error: for each function it appears in.) new_init.c:689: error: expected ';' before 'v' new_init.c:689: error: 'v' undeclared (first use in this function) new_init.c:689: error: expected ';' before 'v' At top level: cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable" make[1]: *** [new_init.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gcl/o' make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2 rm h/mcompdefs.h #
Go back to the gcl source code folder, open a terminal, and type these three lines:

./configure --enable-tkconfig=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
make
After the build is finished - if you want to make a .pet and/or .sfs file, type this:

new2dir make install

Or, if you'd rather just install it without building a .pet or .sfs file, type this:

make install
Just one last nuisance to deal with. The file /bin/gcl has to be moved or renamed, because otherwise, your system might mistakenly try to run that instead of the correct gcl file at: /usr/local/bin/gcl

After all those steps, it should be possible to run GNU Common Lisp simply by typing "gcl" (without quotes).

If you have Tcl/Tk, here's how you can try them out with GNU Common Lisp.

Go to the gcl source code folder, open a terminal prompt, and type:

gcl

Then, at the GCL prompt, put in these commands:

(si::tkconnect)
(load "gcl-tk/demos/widget.lisp")

That last command will fail if your current working directory isn't the gcl source code folder.

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How to compile newLISP in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8
Sunday, December 27th, 2015
14:58:21 GMT

Puppy Linux

Compiling newLISP 10.6.2 from scratch in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 wasn't as tough as compiling GNU Common Lisp 2.6.12, but it was still a bit tricky.

You can download newLISP's source code from here:

http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?Downloads
Then, download libffi from here (I used version 3.2.1):

https://sourceware.org/libffi/
I don't know if most typical Linuxes usually already have that or not, but, Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 version 004 doesn't, and newLISP needs it.
Unzip the libffi source code tarball, open the libffi source code folder, and open a terminal window. Then, do these 3 commands:

./configure make make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.
Next, unzip newLISP's source code, open the newLISP source code folder, open a terminal window, and type:

./configure
Don't type "make" yet. For some reason, ./configure wrongly assumes libffi is at a location it's not at, so you have to open the file "makefile_build" in a text editor and fix the mistaken path in it.
This is the line you need to change:

CFLAGS = -fPIC -m32 -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-long -c -O2 -g -DREADLINE -DSUPPORT_UTF8 -DLINUX -DFFI -I/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include

And here's what you change it to:

CFLAGS = -fPIC -m32 -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-long -c -O2 -g -DREADLINE -DSUPPORT_UTF8 -DLINUX -DFFI -I/usr/local/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include/
Now, you can type "make" (without quotes), and the build should succeed now.
Next, you can type "make install" or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) to install newLISP.
And the last step is, you have to create a symlink so newLISP can find a shared library which newLISP mistakenly looks for in the wrong place.
This command will create the symlink:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib/libffi.so.6

Now, it should be possible to run newLISP just by typing "newlisp" (without quotes).

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Some thoughts on Lisp
Sunday, December 27th, 2015
17:12:56 GMT

Software

I'm still unsure about whether all the claims about the Lisp programming language being incredibly great, and more powerful, flexible, and overall better than any other language are really true or not.

But, hopefully I'll find out, now that I have GNU Common Lisp and newLISP to play with, in addition to the GNU Emacs editor.

Some Emacs Lisp code is very readable. For example, the command (beginning-of-line), which moves your cursor to the beginning of the line. :-)

But with much other Emacs Lisp code, I wasn't sure at first if I found Bash or Emacs Lisp more confusing and indecipherable. Fortunately, working on multifiles-apmod.el helped me get increasingly used to Emacs Lisp, and I definitely at least like it more than Bash now.

For me, Lisp is a lot more readable and understandable when I use my preferred indentation style rather than the confusing styles I've seen everywhere else.

I really appreciate that Lisp doesn't care what formatting I use. One of the reasons I'm never going to be able to tolerate the Python programming language is because of Python's strict enforcement of some quite irritating rules about formatting.

I usually am pretty consistent with my indentation style, but sometimes for boring but necessary lines of code I don't really need to read to follow what's going on, I like to indent them more deeply just as a signal that those lines are extra-boring and can be ignored. I doubt Python would let me do that.

Reputedly, Lisp is so flexible that you can create your own languages in it, and redefine the Lisp language itself.

So, I wonder if it might actually be possible to make Lisp understand the remarkably English-like Inform 7 or HyperTalk?

Computers are some of the most powerful, useful tools ever created, and I think it's very regrettable that the unnecessary abstruseness of so many programming languages thwarts many intelligent people from doing much of anything with their computers.

People shouldn't have to be technical wizards to be able to put their computers to more use.

It's 2015, and by now there ought to be a really great successor to HyperCard (which was originally released in 1987, according to Wikipedia).

I recently found out that Paul Graham's book On Lisp is legally available for download from his website, for free:

On Lisp, by Paul Graham

Not just a sample, the entire book!!

I haven't read most of it yet, but I assume it will be a great book. I really like his nice, clear writing style, and even back when I was primarily a Windows XP user years ago, I found his articles on Lisp so intriguing that I downloaded Lisp in Windows.

Though back then, I quickly gave up, or just drifted away from it due to being so preoccupied with my PHP projects, and having no idea how to make Lisp do anything as interesting as what I could already do with PHP, or anything interesting at all.

But now that I have so much more programming experience, and switched to Linux (in 2011), and recently managed to customize my Emacs setup so nicely that it has become my favorite editor... hopefully now I have a better chance of being able to figure out Lisp.

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Was able to compile PHP 7.0.1 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8, but couldn't compile PHP-GTK 2.0.1 to work with PHP 7.0.1
Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
06:50:38 GMT

Puppy Linux

I finally heard the news that PHP 7.0.1 has been released. So, I decided to see if I could get PHP-GTK 2.0.1 working with it. Alas, no.

I had hardly any trouble compiling PHP 7.0.1 itself. The only problem I had was this old problem, oddly deemed "Not a bug", from 2010:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51774

./configure got stopped with these error messages at the bottom:

/bin/sed: can't read /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read 7/php-7.0.1/ext/pdo/Makefile.frag: No such file or directory
checking for PDO_DBLIB support via FreeTDS... no
checking for Firebird support for PDO... no
checking for MySQL support for PDO... no
checking Oracle OCI support for PDO... no
checking for ODBC v3 support for PDO... no
checking for PostgreSQL support for PDO... no
checking for sqlite 3 support for PDO... yes
checking for PDO includes... checking for PDO includes... ./configure: line 66553: test: /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP: binary operator expected
./configure: line 66555: test: /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP: binary operator expected

configure: error: Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h.

The problem was, I had put my PHP source code folder at a path which had a space in it:

/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP 7/php-7.0.1/

I think I encountered this error while compiling PHP in the past, but I forgot yet again that lots of things in Linux have ridiculous incompatibilities with paths containing spaces.

The fix was simply to remove the space, changing the path to this:

/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-7.0.1/

"./configure" worked fine after that, and so did "make" and "make install".

Here are some details on what stopped me from compiling PHP-GTK 2.0.1 to work with PHP 7.0.1.

If I recall correctly, PHP-GTK 2.0.1 needs the Cairo extension from PECL, and I wasn't able to compile Cairo 0.3.2, despite the fact that it worked with PHP 5.6.13.

This is as far as I got trying to compile Cairo 0.3.2:

# phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20151012
Zend Module Api No:      20151012
Zend Extension Api No:   320151012
# ./configure
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2485: test: =: unary operator expected
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr/local
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/local/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for Cairo graphics library support... yes, shared
checking PHP version... ok
checking for pkg-config... found
checking for cairo... found 1.8.10
checking for Freetype... found 9.22.3
checking for ld used by cc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from cc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no

creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
# make
/bin/sh /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/libtool --mode=compile cc  -I. -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/include -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/main -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -g -O2   -c /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c -o cairo.lo 
mkdir .libs
 cc -I. -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/include -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/main -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/cairo.o
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:34:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:536: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'cairo_surface_object_new'
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:34:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:544: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'cairo_font_face_object_new'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_context_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:601: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_path_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:610: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_pattern_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:619: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_matrix_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:628: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_surface_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:637: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_font_face_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:646: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_scaled_font_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:655: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h: In function 'cairo_font_options_object_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/php_cairo.h:664: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'php_cairo_get_ft_error':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:618: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:666:41: error: macro "RETURN_STRING" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zif_cairo_version_string':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:666: error: 'RETURN_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:666: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:666: error: for each function it appears in.)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:681:41: error: macro "RETURN_STRING" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zim_Cairo_versionString':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:681: error: 'RETURN_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zif_cairo_available_surfaces':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:694: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:696: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:699: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:702: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:705: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:708: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zim_Cairo_availableSurfaces':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:731: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:733: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:736: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:739: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:742: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:745: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zif_cairo_available_fonts':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:769: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:778: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zim_Cairo_availableFonts':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:796: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:805: error: too many arguments to function 'add_next_index_string'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:820:49: error: macro "RETURN_STRING" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zif_cairo_status_to_string':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:820: error: 'RETURN_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:838:49: error: macro "RETURN_STRING" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zim_Cairo_statusToString':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:838: error: 'RETURN_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c: In function 'zm_startup_cairo':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/Cairo-0.3.2/cairo.c:1220: error: 'ZEND_ACC_FINAL_CLASS' undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [cairo.lo] Error 1
#

And this is as far as I got trying to compile PHP-GTK 2.0.1:

# ./buildconf
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20151012
Zend Module Api No:      20151012
Zend Extension Api No:   320151012
rebuilding aclocal.m4
rebuilding configure
rebuilding config.h.in
# ./configure
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2625: test: =: unary operator expected
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr/local
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/local/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for PHP-GTK support... yes, shared
checking for PHP executable... found version 7.0.1
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking whether to include debugging symbols... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... yes (version 2.24.0)
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.6.0... yes (version 2.20.0)
checking for atk >= 1.9.0... yes
checking ATK_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include  
checking ATK_LIBS... -pthread -latk-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  
checking for pango >= 1.8.0... yes
checking PANGO_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include  
checking PANGO_LIBS... -pthread -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  
checking for cairo >= 1.4.0... yes
checking CAIRO_CFLAGS... -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12  
checking CAIRO_LIBS... -lcairo  
checking for cairo php extension... yes
checking for gtkextra support... no
checking for html support... no
checking for libglade support... yes
checking for libglade-2.0 >= 2.4.0... yes
checking LIBGLADE_CFLAGS... -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include  
checking LIBGLADE_LIBS... -pthread -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lgio-2.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0  
checking for libsexy support... no
checking for scintilla support... no
checking for sourceview support... no
checking for spell support... no
creating main/php_gtk_ext.c
checking for ld used by cc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from cc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the cc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no

creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
# make
/bin/sh /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/libtool --mode=compile cc  -I./ext/gtk+/ -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/include -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -g -O2   -c /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c -o ./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.lo 
mkdir ./ext/gtk+/.libs
 cc -I./ext/gtk+/ -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/include -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main -I/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o ./ext/gtk+/.libs/php_gtk+.o
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:34,
                 from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:23:
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_context_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:122: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:34,
                 from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:23:
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_path_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:131: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_pattern_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:140: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_matrix_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:149: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_surface_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:158: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_font_face_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:167: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_scaled_font_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:176: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h: In function 'cairo_font_options_object_get':
/usr/local/include/php/ext/cairo/php_cairo_api.h:185: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:23:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: At top level:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:255: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '*' token
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:255: error: 'zend_object_value' declared as function returning a function
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:23:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:318: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:319: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:320: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
In file included from /apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:23:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:345: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'zend_uint'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:345: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'create_object_func_t'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:404: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'zend_uint'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_to_utf8':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:410: error: 'str_len' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:410: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:410: error: for each function it appears in.)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: At top level:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:425: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'zend_uint'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_from_utf8':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:431: error: 'str_len' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: At top level:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:499: error: 'phpg_create_gobject' declared as function returning a function
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_gobject_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:508: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: At top level:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:521: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'create_object_func_t'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:522: error: 'phpg_create_gboxed' declared as function returning a function
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_gboxed_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:527: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: At top level:
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:537: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'create_object_func_t'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:538: error: 'phpg_create_gpointer' declared as function returning a function
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_gpointer_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:543: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h: In function 'phpg_gparamspec_get':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/main/php_gtk.h:560: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c: In function 'init_gtk':
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:52: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zend_is_auto_global' from incompatible pointer type
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_compile.h:775: note: expected 'struct zend_string *' but argument is of type 'char *'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:52: error: too many arguments to function 'zend_is_auto_global'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:53: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'zval')
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:54: warning: passing argument 2 of 'zend_hash_find' from incompatible pointer type
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_hash.h:154: note: expected 'struct zend_string *' but argument is of type 'char *'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:54: error: too many arguments to function 'zend_hash_find'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:55: warning: passing argument 2 of 'zend_hash_find' from incompatible pointer type
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_hash.h:154: note: expected 'struct zend_string *' but argument is of type 'char *'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:55: error: too many arguments to function 'zend_hash_find'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:79: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:79: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zend_hash_internal_pointer_reset_ex' makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_hash.h:172: note: expected 'struct HashTable *' but argument is of type 'int'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:80:68: error: macro "zend_hash_get_current_data" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:80: error: 'zend_hash_get_current_data' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:81: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:81: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zend_hash_move_forward_ex' makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_hash.h:166: note: expected 'struct HashTable *' but argument is of type 'int'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:82: warning: passing argument 1 of 'g_strndup' makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:195: note: expected 'const gchar *' but argument is of type 'int'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:120: warning: passing argument 1 of 'zend_hash_clean' makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/local/include/php/Zend/zend_hash.h:60: note: expected 'struct HashTable *' but argument is of type 'int'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:128: error: 'zval' has no member named 'type'
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:129: error: request for member 'len' in something not a structure or union
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:130: error: request for member 'val' in something not a structure or union
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:130: error: request for member 'len' in something not a structure or union
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:132:80: error: macro "zend_hash_next_index_insert" passed 4 arguments, but takes just 2
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:132: error: 'zend_hash_next_index_insert' undeclared (first use in this function)
/apmnt/truecrypt62/Hobbiton_Meadow/PHP7/php-gtk-src-master/./ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.c:136: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
make: *** [ext/gtk+/php_gtk+.lo] Error 1
#

So, if I ever manage to finish the PHP-GTK version of Astroblahhh Desktop, it might not be capable, at least for a while, of running on anything much newer than PHP 5.6.13. (Though it might also work with slightly later versions of PHP 5.6 which I haven't yet tried.)

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How to compile GNU Guile 2.0.11 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8
Tuesday, December 29th, 2015
13:07:46 GMT

Puppy Linux

I apparently managed to compile GNU Guile in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004 - though doing so was even more difficult than the last few things I compiled.

And I'm not sure the way I did it was a good idea, since I had to do something rather questionable to trick libunistring into acknowledging that my copy of iconv works. I hope this didn't break anything, but I have no idea. So, please be careful.

I got interested in GNU Guile because it uses the programming language Scheme, which is related to Lisp, and GNU Guile has a component called Guile-Gnome (which I haven't tried to compile yet) which apparently lets you deal with GTK stuff.

So, I guess basically I'm fishing around for Lisp-y alternatives to PHP-GTK, just in case I turn out to like Lisp or maybe even Scheme more than PHP.

But maybe in the end I'll just use lisphp with PHP and PHP-GTK. Or maybe I won't even like Lisp enough to do that? I just haven't done enough with any Lisp or Scheme yet to be able to decide.

Also, another factor to take into consideration is, how cross-platform are these Lisp and Scheme-based things? Will they make it as easy as PHP-GTK to make Astroblahhh Desktop capable of working in not only Linux, but also Windows and Macs?

How to build GNU Guile in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004:

There were at least two dependencies of GNU Guile I had to download, compile and install - libunistring (I used version 0.9.5), and libgc (I used version 7.2).
And if I hadn't already had libffi 3.2.1 as a result of compiling newLISP the other day, I probably would have had to install libffi too.
So, the first step is to download the dependencies you need:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/#downloading
http://www.hboehm.info/gc/#where
https://sourceware.org/libffi/
Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 version 004 apparently already has iconv - so, I'm not sure if this step 2 is necessary. But, I upgraded to libiconv 1.14 in the hope that that would get rid of libunistring's refusal to acknowledge that I have a working copy of iconv.
But, even upgrading libiconv still didn't fix that problem, so I had to resort to something which I'm hoping was not a bad, dangerous thing to do - I edited libunistring's configure script to make it just assume iconv is working. (I'll explain exactly what I did in a later step.)
I don't know whether or not GNU Guile can use the iconv that comes with Lucid Puppy 5.2.8, so, maybe it's best to upgrade to libiconv 1.14, as I did.
So, step 2 is to download libiconv, if you want to update iconv.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/#downloading
And, download the source code of GNU Guile itself. (I used version 2.0.11.)

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/download/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.gz
Unzip the libffi source code tarball, open the libffi source code folder, and open a terminal window. Then, do these 3 commands:

./configure make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Next, unzip the libgc source code tarball, open the source code folder, open a terminal, and do these commands:

./configure make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
If you decided not to upgrade libiconv, you can skip this step.
If you decided to upgrade libiconv, unzip the libiconv source code tarball, open the libiconv code folder, open a terminal window, and do these commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Then, to stop your system from trying to use the old iconv instead of the new iconv - go to the folder /usr/bin, and rename the file iconv to something else.
Next, unzip the libunistring source code tarball, and open the libunistring source code folder.
This is the trickiest and probably the most potentially dangerous and questionable step. I'm not sure this is a good idea at all, but, I haven't yet found any other way to make the build of GNU Guile succeed, because GNU Guile's ./configure complains if libunistring is compiled without libiconv support.
In the libunistring source code folder, open the file "configure" with a text editor. Go to line 17639, which says:

am_cv_func_iconv_works=no

Change it to:

am_cv_func_iconv_works=yes
Next, open a terminal at the libunistring source code folder. Do this command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

If it worked properly, it should say the following starting around line 114 of the stuff printed by ./configure:
```
checking for iconv... yes
checking for working iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
checking for iconv declaration... 
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for iconv.h... yes
```
If it does say that, then, do these commands:

make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Now that GNU Guile's dependencies have been installed, we can proceed with building GNU Guile. Unzip GNU Guile's source code tarball, open the GNU Guile source code folder, and open a terminal window. Do these commands:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
./configure

(The first line somehow stops "make" from complaining about not being able to find libunistring.)
Next, do this command:

make

And be prepared to wait a long time for it to build. For me, it took more than a half an hour, even on the 3.4 GHz dual core desktop computer I was building it on.
At first it looks like it's going pretty fast and doing lots of stuff, but it seemed to get stuck for a very long time doing something with these files:
```
wrote `ice-9/eval.go'
  GUILEC ice-9/psyntax-pp.go
wrote `ice-9/psyntax-pp.go'
  GUILEC ice-9/boot-9.go
wrote `ice-9/boot-9.go'
  GUILEC ice-9/vlist.go
wrote `ice-9/vlist.go'
  GUILEC srfi/srfi-1.go
wrote `srfi/srfi-1.go'
  GUILEC language/tree-il/peval.go
wrote `language/tree-il/peval.go'
  GUILEC language/tree-il/cse.go
```
And so on. I was a bit worried something went wrong and it was never going to finish, but, all I had to do was wait. And wait, and wait.
Once "make" is finished, you can do this command:

make install

(Or, if you want to build an .sfs or .pet file, put "new2dir make install" (without quotes) instead of "make install".)

Now, it should be possible to run GNU Guile simply by typing "guile" in a terminal.

I don't know if there's a GUI (graphical user interface) somewhere, but, if I find there is, I'll update this post.

I don't yet know how to make GNU Guile do anything particularly eye-catching, but, you can make it do some addition by typing something like this:

(+ 2 2)

To which GNU Guile will respond:

$1 = 4

And apparently that creates a variable called $1, containing "4" (the result of adding 2+2).

And you can use the automatically-created $1 variable in other commands like this:

(+ $1 1)

To which GNU Guile will respond:

$2 = 5

($1 equals 4, and 4 plus 1 equals 5.)

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How to compile Guile-Gnome 2.16.4 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8
Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
14:39:36 GMT

Puppy Linux

It was another difficult process, but I finally managed to build Guile-Gnome for GNU Guile in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004.

Now, I can actually make GNU Guile create GTK windows! So, perhaps GNU Guile will turn out to be a good substitute for PHP-GTK.

If I can get GNU Guile to work with MySQL and SQLite databases, and also have it output web pages (so I can keep Astroblahhh Desktop's web interface), perhaps a GNU Guile-based Astroblahhh Desktop might be feasible.

I wonder if GNU Guile can work with OrientDB?

However, I'm not sure if I should write the CMS (content management system, for lack of a better term) of my dreams in any very uncommonly used language or platform. PHP is available from most web hosts. Even figuring out how to make the Java-based OrientDB work with my websites seems like it might be difficult, though maybe less difficult than figuring out how to get some form of Lisp or Scheme like GNU Guile working on a web server.

But, back to the topic of how to build Guile-Gnome in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004.

Once again, I had to use some trickery (or guile! Haha, I made a pun) to get past some hopefully mistaken errors. I'll explain more about that below.

The first prerequisite is to build GNU Guile, if you haven't already. This earlier blog post of mine has instructions.
You can download Guile-Gnome itself here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/download.html
I used version 2.16.4.
Guile-Gnome has various dependencies that you'll need to download.
Here's most of what I needed:
- G-Wrap. I used version 1.9.15. http://nongnu.org/g-wrap/download.html
- Cairo. I used version 1.14.6. http://cairographics.org/download/
- Pixman - needed by Cairo. I used version 0.32.8. Pixman is available from the same place as Cairo: http://cairographics.org/releases/
Those are the three easiest things to get. Downloading Guile-Cairo will be explained in step 3.
Guile-Cairo can't so easily be downloaded because the needed version was never officially released - it seems to only be available by downloading it via Git (and not even GitHub).
Fortunately, an at least partway functional copy of an old version of Git exists in the Lucid Puppy Linux DevX SFS file of development tools. The DevX, by the way, is what you need to use to compile software in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8.
My page of Some Puppy Linux Basics explains more about DevX files, and if you need the DevX for Lucid Puppy 5.2.8, it's available at this link:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-5.2.8/
(If you're using a different version of Puppy than Lucid Puppy 5.2.8, that DevX probably won't work, so you should instead download the DevX released for your Puppy.
Also, if you're not using Lucid Puppy 5.2.8, please bear in mind that the instructions in this blog post might not all apply or work for you, since different Puppy Linux distros, and probably even different versions of the same Puppy distro, can differ quite substantially from each other.)
And here's how to load SFS files.

Once you have the DevX mounted, you should be able to run Git. Go to a folder that you want to download Guile-Cairo into, open a terminal window, and put in this command:

git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/guile-cairo.git

If it worked, you'll see some text like this:

# git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/guile-cairo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/guile-cairo/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 830, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (280/280), done.
remote: Total 830 (delta 522), reused 830 (delta 522)
Receiving objects: 100% (830/830), 594.72 KiB | 666 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (522/522), done.

And there will now be a "guile-cairo" folder in the folder you opened the terminal window from.

Now we can get started compiling things. First, an easy one. Unzip the G-Wrap source code tarball, open the G-Wrap folder, open a terminal window, and put in these commands:

./configure make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Next, Pixman, which is also easy to compile. Unzip the Pixman source code tarball, open the Pixman folder, open a terminal window, and put in these commands:

./configure make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Next, a more difficult one to compile - Cairo. Unzip the Cairo source code tarball, open the Cairo folder, open a terminal window, and put in these commands:

export pixman_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/pixman-1" export pixman_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib/ -lpixman-1" ./configure --enable-gobject=yes make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Next, Guile-Cairo. Mostly easy, once you have Cairo itself compiled correctly.
If you want to make a .pet or .sfs file, rename the Guile-Cairo folder to something like "guile_cairo-1.10". (Though I'm not sure that's the actual version number. You can use any version number - this rename is just to make it so new2dir won't complain later on about not being in a folder with a version number.)
Next, open the Guile-Cairo folder, open a terminal window, and put in these commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local make
make install

(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
Now, it should be possible to compile Guile-Gnome itself. Unzip the Guile-Gnome source code tarball, open the Guile-Gnome folder, open a terminal window, and put in this command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

If all went well, somewhere in the messages printed by ./configure should be this text:
```
All available wrappers will be built:
  atk cairo corba gconf glib gnome-vfs gtk libglade libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeui pango
```
Don't type "make" yet. Here's where I had to do a maybe unwise trick, so Guile-Gnome won't complain that "Cairo was not compiled with support for GObject".
Go to the folder /usr/local/include/cairo/ and open the file cairo-gobject.h in a text editor.
Delete this line toward the top (line 42 in my cairo-gobject.h):

#if CAIRO_HAS_GOBJECT_FUNCTIONS

And delete these three lines near the bottom (starting at line 188 in my cairo-gobject.h):

#else /* CAIRO_HAS_GOBJECT_FUNCTIONS */ # error Cairo was not compiled with support for GObject #endif /* CAIRO_HAS_GOBJECT_FUNCTIONS */

Then, save the cairo-gobject.h file.

I believe that due to the way I compiled Cairo (described above), Cairo really does have GObject support.
And also, I got an encouraging-looking response when I tried a command I found on this page:

pkg-config --libs cairo-gobject

The response was:

-pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0
Now, back in the Guile-Gnome folder's, type this in a terminal window:

make

Hopefully everything will go smoothly now that Guile-Gnome has no way not to acknowledge that Cairo really does have GObject support.
Next, type either "make install" (without quotes) or "new2dir make install" if you want to make a .pet or .sfs file out of Guile-Gnome.
For some reason, GNU Guile doesn't automatically know where the Guile-Gnome modules are, so you have to give GNU Guile this command:

(use-modules (gnome-2))

After doing that, it should be possible to run the example scripts from the Guile-Gtk Overview page, which will create a GTK window containing a button which says "Hello, World!"

I don't know yet how to make GNU Guile automatically find the Guile-Gnome modules.

But, I assume that similar to GNU Emacs, there's probably some sort of config file somewhere which you can put commands in like "(use-modules (gnome-2))" so those commands will be run automatically every time you start GNU Guile.

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