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This is release 1.3.3 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language
library. Guile is an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library
that you can link into your applications to give them their own
scripting language. Guile will eventually support other languages as
well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages.
Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
About This Distribution ==============================================
Interesting files include:
- INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
- NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
- COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
Building and installing this distribution gives you:
guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in
/usr/local/bin. With no arguments, this is a simple
interactive Scheme interpreter. It can also be used as an
interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
guile-config --- a Guile script which provides the information necessary
to link your programs against the Guile library.
guile-snarf --- a script to parse declarations in your C code for
Scheme-visible C functions, Scheme objects to be used by C code, etc.
libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
usually installed in /usr/local/lib. You can use Guile in
your own programs by linking against this.
libqthreads.a --- an object library containing the QuickThreads
primitives. If you enabled thread support when you configured
Guile, you will need to link your code against this too.
<libguile.h>, <guile/gh.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for
libguile.a, usually installed in /usr/local/include.
ice-9, ice-9/*.scm --- run-time support for Guile: the module
system, read-eval-print loop, some R4RS code and other
infrastructure. Usually installed in
/usr/local/share/guile/<version>.
data-rep.info --- An essay on how to write C code that works with
Guile Scheme values.
The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
libguile:
The Guile Scheme interpreter --- both the object library
for you to link with your programs, and the executable you can run.
ice-9: Guile's module system, initialization code, and other infrastructure.
guile-config:
Source for the guile-config script.
qt: A cooperative threads package from the University of Washington,
which Guile can use. If you configure Guile with the
--with-threads flag, you will need to link against the -lqt
library, found in this directory. Qt is under a separate
copyright; see `qt/README' for more details.
doc: Some preliminary documentation for Guile. The real Guile
manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised.
doc/example-smob: Sample code, discussed in the preliminary
documentation above, for a program that extends Guile with a
new data type, and functions that operate on it.
Anonymous CVS Access and FTP snapshots ===============================
We make the developers' working Guile sources available via anonymous
CVS, and by nightly snapshots, accessible via FTP. See the files
`ANON-CVS' and `SNAPSHOTS' for details.
If you would like to receive mail when people commit changes to the
Guile CVS repository, you can subscribe to guile-cvs@sourceware.cygnus.com
by sending a message to guile-cvs-subscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com. Even
better, you can get daily digests of these commit messages by sending
a message to guile-cvs-digest-subscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com.
If you want to subscribe an e-mail address other than the one that
appears in your From: header, say foo@bar.com, send a mail note to
guile-cvs-subscribe-foo=bar.com@sourceware.cygnus.com.
Hacking It Yourself ==================================================
As distributed, Guile needs only an ANSI C compiler and a Unix system
to compile. However, Guile's makefiles, configuration scripts, and a
few other files are automatically generated, not written by hand. If
you want to make changes to the system (which we encourage!) you will
find it helpful to have the tools we use to develop Guile. They
are the following:
Autoconf 2.13 --- a system for automatically generating `configure'
scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a
program would like to use. Available in
"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf"
Automake 1.4 --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards. The
nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
Makefile dependencies. Automake is available in
"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake"
Before using automake, you may need to copy `threads.m4' and
`guile.m4' from the top directory of the Guile core disty to
`/usr/local/share/aclocal.
libtool 1.3.3 --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in
"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool"
You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
different.
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Obtaining Guile ======================================================
The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from
ftp.gnu.org, as /pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz.
Via the web, that's: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz
For getit, that's: ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz
The mailing list `guile@sourceware.cygnus.com' carries discussions,
questions, and often answers, about Guile. To subscribe, send mail to
guile-subscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com. Of course, please send bug
reports (and fixes!) to bug-guile@gnu.org. Note that one address is
@sourceware.cygnus.com, and the other is at @gnu.org.
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