From ac6fb6feedbf99ed5be9e1401463065a18249b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:24:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add installation instructions. * INSTALL: New file. --- INSTALL | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 00000000..03c426f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ + -*- org -*- +Building and Installing Mes + +* Get it + + git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes + +* Prerequisites + +** A C compiler, GNU Gcc 4.9.3 is known to work. +The idea is to drop this requirement, of course. + +** 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. + + +*** Development (but see [[./guix.scm]]) + +** 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 all + +* Check it + + make check + +* Install it + + make install