installed.
Xcode is available at
- <http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html>
+ <http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html>.
You have to register as an Apple Developer to download it. This
is free but requires you to accept a legal agreement with Apple.
The latest version of Xcode to work with Leopard is 3.14; more
recent versions require Snow Leopard.
The MacPorts system is available at
- <http://www.macports.org/>
+ <http://www.macports.org/>.
This automates the building of Unix-type software on your Mac; it
makes it a lot easier to check for dependencies, use more-recent
versions of things, and so on.
If you're using **Windows**, you'll be in one of two subgroups:
-* You'll have the Cygwin system installed:
- <http://www.cygwin.com/>
+* You'll have the Cygwin system
+ <http://www.cygwin.com/> installed.
This puts a Unix-like layer on top of your Windows system,
and makes it easier for you to use the same software everybody
else will be using, without its needing as much special-for-Windows
and we'll assume that those of you using different packaging systems will know
how to make the relevant substitutions. You may also want to take note of the
output of the "uname -srm" command. On my machine this tells me "Linux
- 2.6.35-ARCH x86_64". That tells me I'm running the x86_64 (as opposed to the
+ 2.6.35-ARCH x86\_64". That tells me I'm running the x86\_64 (as opposed to the
i686 or i386 or whatever) version of Linux, and that I'm running kernel
version 2.6.35.
It's very likely that your packaging system has some version of
PLT Scheme available, so look for it. However, if you can't find it you
- can also install a pre-packaged binary from the Racket website: <http://racket-lang.org/download/>
+ can also install a pre-packaged binary from the Racket website at <http://racket-lang.org/download/>.
Choose the option for your version of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, and two
varieties of Fedora are available)
**Caml** is one of two major dialects of *ML*, which is another large family of
programming languages. The other dialect is called "SML" and has several
-implementations. But Caml has only one active implementation, OCaml, developed
-by the INRIA academic group in France.
+implementations. But Caml has only one active implementation, OCaml or
+Objective Caml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France.
It's helpful if in addition to OCaml you also install the Findlib add-on.
This will make it easier to install additional add-ons further down the road.
Cygwin system installed. We assume few of you do,
so we're not going to try to explain how to do this.
If you want to figure it out yourself, go to the
- Findlib website: <http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html>.
+ Findlib website at <http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html>.
* **To install on Mac without MacPorts**
- To install OCaml 3.12 (just released the summer), go to:
+ To install OCaml 3.12 (just released this summer), go to
<http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>
and download and install the "Binary distribution for Mac OS X"
instructions. (Use the MacPorts version of OCaml, instead of installing
the package from the caml.inria.fr website, as described above)
However, if you do have Xcode, and want to do without MacPorts, then
- what you need to do is download Findlib from:
- <http://download.camlcity.org/download/findlib-1.2.6.tar.gz>
+ what you need to do is download Findlib from
+ <http://download.camlcity.org/download/findlib-1.2.6.tar.gz>.
Unpack the download, open a Terminal and go into the folder you just
unpacked, and type:
and the Findlib add-on.
If for some reason you can't get OCaml through your
- packaging system, you can go to:
- <http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>
+ packaging system, you can go to
+ <http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>.
Pre-packaged binary installers are available for several Linux systems.
If you can't get findlib through your packaging system, you'll
- need to download it from:
- <http://download.camlcity.org/download/findlib-1.2.6.tar.gz>
+ need to download it from
+ <http://download.camlcity.org/download/findlib-1.2.6.tar.gz>.
and use gcc to compile it yourself. If you don't know how to
do that, you probably don't want to attempt this.
Here are the INSTALL notes:
- <https://godirepo.camlcity.org/svn/lib-findlib/trunk/INSTALL>
+ <https://godirepo.camlcity.org/svn/lib-findlib/trunk/INSTALL>.