| How to compile GNU Guile 2.0.11 in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 |
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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.
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?
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:
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.
make
make install
(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
make
make install
(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
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:
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.
In the libunistring source code folder, open the file "configure" with a text editor. Go to line 17639, which says:
Change it to:
If it worked properly, it should say the following starting around line 114 of the stuff printed by ./configure:
If it does say that, then, do these commands:
make install
(Or "new2dir make install" (without quotes) if you'd like to make a .pet or .sfs file.)
./configure
(The first line somehow stops "make" from complaining about not being able to find libunistring.)
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:
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.
(Or, if you want to build an .sfs or .pet file, put "new2dir make install" (without quotes) instead of "make install".)
I don't know if there's a GUI (graphical user interface) somewhere, but, if I find there is, I'll update this post.
To which GNU Guile will respond:
And apparently that creates a variable called $1, containing "4" (the result of adding 2+2).
To which GNU Guile will respond:
($1 equals 4, and 4 plus 1 equals 5.)
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.
How to build GNU Guile in Lucid Puppy Linux 5.2.8 version 004:
./configure
./configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
am_cv_func_iconv_works=no am_cv_func_iconv_works=yes
./configure --prefix=/usr/localchecking 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... yesmake
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
makewrote `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
make install
Now, it should be possible to run GNU Guile simply by typing "guile" in a terminal.
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)$1 = 4
And you can use the automatically-created $1 variable in other commands like this:
(+ $1 1)$2 = 5