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From: <ag...@us...> - 2008-09-26 09:54:24
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Revision: 873
http://pure-lang.svn.sourceforge.net/pure-lang/?rev=873&view=rev
Author: agraef
Date: 2008-09-26 09:54:16 +0000 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
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Updated INSTALL.
Modified Paths:
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pure/trunk/INSTALL
Modified: pure/trunk/INSTALL
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--- pure/trunk/INSTALL 2008-09-26 00:16:01 UTC (rev 872)
+++ pure/trunk/INSTALL 2008-09-26 09:54:16 UTC (rev 873)
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@
the gcc frontend available for LLVM). You'll also need a Bourne-compatible
shell and GNU make, which are also readily available on most platforms.
+A binary package in msi format is provided for Windows users in the download
+area of the pure-lang.sf.net project page. Ports and packages for other
+systems are also available; see the SYSTEM NOTES section below for details.
+
BASIC INSTALLATION
===== ============
@@ -31,23 +35,49 @@
STEP 1. Make sure you have all the necessary dependencies installed (-dev
denotes corresponding development packages):
-- GNU make, GNU C++ and the corresponding libraries;
+- GNU make, GNU C/C++ and the corresponding libraries;
- flex and bison (these are only required when compiling the Pure SVN sources,
see the INSTALLING FROM SVN SOURCES section below);
-- libgmp, -dev;
+- the GNU multiprecision library (libgmp, -dev);
-- libreadline, -dev;
+- the GNU scientific library (libgsl, -dev; this isn't a strict requirement,
+but you certainly want to have this library in order to make GSL matrices work
+in Pure);
-- libltdl, -dev;
+- the GNU readline library (libreadline, -dev);
-- subversion (only needed to fetch the SVN sources, see below).
+- the GNU ltdl library (libltdl, -dev; only required for building LLVM);
+- subversion (this is only needed to fetch the SVN sources, see below).
+
E.g., the required packages for Ubuntu are: make, g++, g++ 4.0 multilib, flex,
-bison, libgmp3c2, libgmp3-dev, readline5-dev, libltdl3, libldtl3-dev,
-subversion.
+bison, libgmp3c2, libgmp3-dev, libgsl0, libgsl0-dev, readline5-dev, libltdl3,
+libldtl3-dev, subversion.
+All dependencies are available as free software. Here are some links if you
+need or want to install the dependencies from source:
+
+- GNU C/C++: http://gcc.gnu.org
+
+- GNU make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make
+
+- Flex: http://flex.sourceforge.net
+
+- Bison: http://www.gnu.org/software/bison
+
+- GMP: http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp
+
+- GSL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl
+
+- GNU readline: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
+
+- GNU ltdl (part of the libtool software): http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool
+
+Subversion is available from http://subversion.tigris.org. There's also a very
+nice Windows frontend, TortoiseSVN, see http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org.
+
STEP 2. Get and unpack the LLVM 2.3 sources at:
http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#2.3
@@ -124,6 +154,16 @@
> 6*7;
42
+Check that GSL support is available:
+
+> show gsl_version
+let gsl_version = "1.9";
+
+(If this doesn't display anything then please review your installation process
+and make sure that you have GSL installed. The configure program should show
+that GSL support is available in the summary. You can run Pure without this,
+but then the numeric GSL matrices won't be available.)
+
Read the online documentation (this invokes the Pure manual page):
> help
@@ -304,6 +344,12 @@
this as a workaround for systems on which LLVM refuses to be linked into
shared libraries.
+GSL support should be enabled automatically, if the GSL libraries and headers
+are available on your system. If configure fails to find these then you may
+have to set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS accordingly and/or use --enable-gsl to
+forcibly enable GSL support. You can also specify --disable-gsl if you don't
+want/need the GSL matrices, but this isn't recommended.
+
RUNNING PURE FROM THE SOURCE DIRECTORY
------- ---- ---- --- ------ ---------
@@ -385,6 +431,15 @@
Linux is the primary development platform for this software, and the sources
should build out of the box on all recent Linux distributions.
+Binary packages for openSUSE are maintained by Toni Graffy as part of the
+Packman project: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/pure
+
+Alvaro Castro Castilla has contributed a Gentoo ebuild, which is currently
+available at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231966.
+
+We're still looking for people who can maintain Debian and Fedora packages,
+please let us know if you want to help with that.
+
MAC OSX
--- ---
@@ -411,9 +466,11 @@
A binary package in msi format is available as well (see "Downloads" on the
Pure website), which includes all required libraries and some shortcuts to run
-the Pure interpreter and read online documentation in html help format.
+the Pure interpreter and read online documentation in html help format, as
+well as "PurePad", an alternative GUI frontend for editing and running Pure
+scripts on Windows.
-August 2008
+September 2008
Albert Graef <Dr.Graef at t-online.de>
Eddie Rucker <erucker at bmc.edu>
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