Re: Installing OpenDylan on MacOSX 10.5

[Hannes Mehnert]

Hi,

On Jun 3, 6:55 pm, kungmas...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've tried looking at many programming languages and can't find
> *anything* I like as much as Dylan. Everything looks kludgy and
> awkward to me. I am trying to load OpenDylan on MacOSX 10.5 but can't
> seem to get past square one. Would someone show me how to get it
> going?

I downloaded http://www.opendylan.org/downloads/opendylan/1.0beta4/opendylan-1.0beta4-x86-darwin.tar.bz2
and got a Boehm-Weiser garbage collector from some package mechanism,
tar xf opendylan-1.0beta4-x86-darwin.tar.bz2 into / .

Then download sources from svn (svn://anonsvn.opendylan.org/scm/svn/
trunk/fundev and libraries) and set environment variable
OPEN_DYLAN_USER_REGISTRIES to `pwd`/fundev/sources/registry:`pwd`/
libraries/registry . Then you should be able to run /usr/local/
opendylan-1.0beta4/bin/minimal-console-compiler -build hello-world and
get ~/Open-Dylan/bin/hello-world

If you don't, please tell at which step what failure occurs.

Best regards,

Hannes

[Hannes Mehnert]

Hi,

boehm-gc: is available as i-package http://ii2.sourceforge.net/ ;
alternatively get the source from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
and follow the compile instructions (you'll need dev-tools anyway for
compiling dylan code).

subversion: get package from http://homepage.mac.com/martinott/Subversion-1.5.5.pkg.zip
; install, afterwards you should be able to run svn in a terminal.

environment variables: run export OPEN_DYLAN_USER_REGISTRIES=`pwd`/
fundev/sources/registry;`pwd`/libraries/registry in your terminal

Hannes

On Jun 5, 2:44 pm, kungmas...@gmail.com wrote:
> I tried getting the Boehm-Weiser GC but no luck there.
>
> I never could get the "svn://... " sources downloaded nor could I get
> the environmental variables set. I'm afraid I'm rusty on my Unix.