mes/INSTALL

                                                              -*- org -*-
Building and Installing Mes

* Get it

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

* Prerequisites
** Bootstrapping
For bootstrapping, the only dependency is the hex2 linker
*** [[https://github.com/oriansj/MESCC_Tools][MESCC_Tools]], 0.1 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]], 0.0 is known to work.

**** [[https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nyacc][Nyacc]], 0.78.0 is known to work.
Matt Wette's C99 LALR parser.

**** 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.

**** GNU Make, version 4.0 is know to work.
Not strictly necessary.

**** /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

** For a quick build, skip running mescc on Mes
   make MES_SKIP_MES=1

* Check it

   make check

** For a quick check, skip running mescc on Mes
   make MES_SKIP_MES=1

* Install it

   make install
* Guix it...

   guix package -f guix.scm