mes/INSTALL

                                                              -*- org -*-
Building and Installing Mes

* Get it

   git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes

* Prerequisites
** Bootstrapping
For bootstrapping, the M1 macro assembler and hex2 linker and Nyacc
*** [[https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools][mescc-tools]], 0.4 is known to work.
*** [[https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nyacc][Nyacc]], [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/nyacc][patched Nyacc]] 0.80.42 is known to work.
For development
** Development
For development, there are some more dependencies.
*** Guix

    guix environment -l guix.scm     #64 bit + 32bit
    guix environment --system=i686-linux -l guix.scm #32 bit only

*** Other GNU/Linux
**** [[https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools][mescc-tools]], 0.4 is known to work.
**** [[https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nyacc][Nyacc]], [[https://gitlab.com/janneke/nyacc][patched Nyacc]] 0.80.42 is known to work.
**** GNU Gcc, 4.9.3 is known to work.
The idea is to drop this requirement, of course.

**** GNU Guile, version 2.0.12 or is know to work.
Guile is not strictly necessary but it is used by the configure script
and in development.

**** /bin/sh, GNU Bash 4.3 is known to work.
Let's just say for now that it gets awkward without a shell.

**** GNU coreutils
**** sed, GNU sed 4.2 is known to work.
**** git, 2.10 is known to work.
**** Perl, 5.22 is known to work.

* Build it

   ./configure
   make

* Check it

   make check

* Install it

   make install
* Guix it...

   guix package -f guix.scm