Hello, GPC folks,
the Essener Linux User Group (ELUG) is organising a workshop on
GNU Pascal:
Weekend 29./30. July 2000
Villa Vogelsang, Antonienallee 1
45279 Essen Steele-Horst, Germany
http://www.villa-vogelsang.de ("Linux Hotel")
The primary language will be German. (However the speaker (myself;-)
and probably most of the participants can also speak English.)
Details will be published (in German) on the ELUG web site
(http://www.elug.de) For even more details, please ask the
Essener Linux User Group on their mailing list <elug(a)elug.de>
or Anja Drewitz <anja(a)drewitz.de> who organises the event.
See you,
Peter
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Hello, folks!
This is the announcement of a new alpha version of GPC:
gpc-20000705
We also have set up a CVS server where you can always check out the
current development snapshot. Alpha snapshots are now going to be
released much more frequently.
At the same time we have updated the GPC WWW pages. They now contain
the GPC documentation in HTML, DVI and PS format which are updated
automatically with the GPC source.
The instructions below are an extract from the new `INSTALL' file.
For a list of new features in this release, see the section `news'
on the GPC WWW pages and/or in the GPC documentation. For fixed
bugs, see the GPC TODO list at the same places.
Have fun,
the GNU Pascal development team
Where and what to download
==========================
The master server for GNU Pascal is
`agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de'. Official and beta releases of the
compiler with sources and binaries for many platforms as well as other
GNU Pascal related files can be found in
`ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/'
You can find binary distributions for many platforms in the
subdirectory `binary'. The archive files are named
`gpc-VERSION.PLATFORM.EXTENSION' - for example
`gpc-2.1.alpha-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz' for GPC version 2.1 on an
Alpha workstation running the Linux kernel with GNU C Library, or
`gpc-20000616.i586-pc-djgppv201.zip' for GPC version 20000616 on an
i586 PC running DOS with DJGPP version 2.01.
After you have downloaded the correct archive file for your
platform, please read the installation notes on how to install such a
binary distribution.
If you are running Dos or MS Windows, you will need additional tools
- see "What else to download and where" below.
Current snapshots
-----------------
GNU Pascal is subject to steady development. You can download the
current snapshot (source only, use at your own risk) via anonymous FTP
from:
`ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/'
or via anonymous CVS from:
CVS root: :pserver:anonymous@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de:/usr/local/cvsroot
Password: anonymous
Command: checkout gpc
Please read the installation notes on how to compile the source from
a distribution or a CVS checkout.
Compiling GPC
=============
The preferred way to distribute GNU software is distribution of the
source code. However, it can be a non-trivial exercise to build GNU
Pascal on some non-Unix systems, so we also provide ready-to-run
binaries for a number of platforms. (See above for how to install a
binary distribution.)
GPC is based on the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU CC or GCC. You will
need the GCC sources to build it. It must be the same version as the one
GPC is implemented with - `version 2.95.x' as of this writing. Although
you need GCC to build the GNU Pascal compiler, you don't need GCC to
compile Pascal programs once GNU Pascal is installed. (However, using
certain libraries will require compiling C wrappers, so it is a good
idea to install the C compiler as well.)
Because GNU Pascal shares its back-end with GCC, it should run on any
system supported by GCC. A full list of platforms supported by GCC can
be found in the GCC installation instructions.
The GCC source can be obtained from any mirror of the GNU FTP site,
`ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/'. The "core" distribution is sufficient for
GPC.
Here is the generic procedure for installing GNU Pascal on a Unix
system. See below for extra information needed to install GPC on
DOS-like platforms.
1. Checking the prerequisites
Make sure that GNU make is installed. (In the following, we will
simply speak of `make' when invoking GNU make; you might need to
call `gmake' instead.)
For extracting the example programs from the documentation to the
`doc/docdemos' directory a non-crippled `sed' is needed. GNU sed
is known to work.
If you have checked out the GPC source from CVS, you will have to
rebuild most derived files, so you will need additional tools:
`bison', `flex', `makeinfo', `gperf', and `autoconf'. Make sure
that these are installed.
If you want to build the GPC WWW pages you will also need:
`texi2html' version 1.61 (older versions are missing some needed
features; newer versions suffer from a bug), `texi2dvi', TeX,
`gzip', `dvips', `dviselect', and `dviconcat'.
If you run into trouble during the installation process, please
check whether you are using outdated versions of the required
utilities and upgrade if necessary.
The GNU versions of the packages above are available from
the GNU FTP server (ftp://ftp.gnu.org) or any of its mirrors.
Package PACKAGE is usually located in the directory `gnu/PACKAGE'.
2. Unpacking the source
From a directory of your choice (e.g. `/home/fred'), unpack the
GCC and GNU Pascal source distributions. This will create separate
subdirectories for GCC and GPC. Let us assume `gcc-2.95.1' and
`gpc-20000535' in this example.
% cd /home/fred
% gzip -c -d gcc-core-2.95.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
% gzip -c -d gpc-20000535.tar.gz | tar xf -
`cd' to the GPC directory and move the contents (a subdirectory
`p') to the subdirectory `gcc' of the GCC directory:
% cd /home/fred/gpc-20000535
% mv p /home/fred/gcc-2.95.1/gcc/
It is recommended, though not required, to use a separate
directory for building the compiler, rather than compiling in the
source directory. In this example, let us create
`/home/fred/gpc-build' for this purpose:
% mkdir /home/fred/gpc-build
If you use a separate directory, you do not need to write into the
GCC source directory once you have patched the GCC source (see
below), and can build GPC for more than one platform from the same
source tree.
In case you are re-using a directory where you have already built
GCC and/or GPC for a different target machine, do `make distclean'
to delete all files that might be invalid. One of the files this
deletes is `Makefile'; if `make distclean' complains that
`Makefile' does not exist, it probably means that the directory is
already suitably clean.
3. Configuring and building GCC
GNU Pascal is automatically configured with GCC. Configuration of
GCC is treated in depth in the GCC installation instructions. The
normal procedure is as follows:
`cd' to the GPC build directory. From there, run the `configure'
script in the GCC source directory:
% cd /home/fred/gpc-build
% /home/fred/gcc-2.95.1/configure --enable-languages=pascal
This creates all the necessary config files, links and Makefile in
the GCC object directory.
Note 1: The configuration will prompt you for patching the GCC
source for GPC support, so you need write access to that
directory. All changes to GCC are surrounded by `#ifdef GPC ...
#endif', so they should not interfere when you build a C compiler
from this source tree.
Note 2: The `--enable-languages=pascal' option means that we only
want to build the Pascal compiler and not, for instance, the C++
compiler.
Note 3: The standard directory for installing GCC and GPC is
`/usr/local/lib'. If you want to install files to an alternate
directory DIR, specify `--prefix=DIR' when you run `configure'.
4. Putting other GNU tools in place
Some environments require other GNU tools (such as the GNU
assembler or linker) instead of the standard system tools for GCC
to work. (See the GCC installation instructions for details.) If
this is the case for your system, install the required tools in
the GPC build directory under the names `as', `ld', or whatever is
appropriate. This will enable the compiler to find the proper
tools for compilation of the program `enquire' (a part of GCC) and
to install the GNU tools to a place where they are found by GCC
but do not interfere with the standard system tools.
Alternatively, you can do subsequent compilation using a value of
the `PATH' environment variable such that the necessary GNU tools
come before the standard system tools.
5. Compiling GPC
Once you are satisfied with the configuration as determined by
`configure', you can build the compiler:
% make
Notice that this procedure will build the C compiler (and maybe
some other compilers) too, because that is used to compile the GPC
runtime library.
Optionally, you may supply CFLAGS, LDFLAGS or RTSFLAGS. CFLAGS is
used for compiler and RTS, RTSFLAGS are for RTS only, i.e.: `make
CFLAGS="-O2" RTSFLAGS=-Wall'
6. Completing the installation
When everything has been compiled, you can check the installation
process with:
% make -n install
To complete the installation, run the command `make install'. You
need write access to the target directories (`/usr/local/bin',
`/usr/local/lib', `/usr/local/info', `/usr/local/doc', and
`/usr/local/man' in this example), so this is usually done as
`root':
% su -c "make install"
If you want to install *only* the Pascal compiler (for example if
you already have the correct version of GCC installed), `cd' to the
`gcc' subdirectory of the build directory (e.g.
`/home/fred/gpc-build/gcc') and run `make pascal.install'. This
installation process does *not* overwrite existing copies of
`libgcc.a' or `specs', should they exist.
Also from the `gcc' subdirectory you can do some more "exotic"
builds. For instance, you can build the GPC WWW pages by typing
`make pascal.html' or a binary distribution by typing `make
pascal.bindist'. See the `Makefile' in that directory for more
examples.
Have fun with GPC!
