If you're using Windows, you'll be in one of two subgroups:
- * You'll have the Cygwin system installed:
- <http://www.cygwin.com/>
- 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
- treatment. However, many of you won't have this installed.
-
- * You won't have Cygwin installed. You might in theory have
- a different group of compilers installed (Microsoft ...), but
- we'll assume that the overwhelming majority of users in this group
- don't have access to a compiler and need pre-packaged installers
- for everything.
+* You'll have the Cygwin system installed:
+<http://www.cygwin.com/>
+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
+treatment. However, many of you won't have this installed.
+
+* You won't have Cygwin installed. You might in theory have
+a different group of compilers installed (Microsoft ...), but
+we'll assume that the overwhelming majority of users in this group
+don't have access to a compiler and need pre-packaged installers
+for everything.
If you're using Linux, you could be using any one of numerous packaging
systems.
- We'll give examples using the packaging system shared by Debian and Ubuntu,
- 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
- i686 or i386 or whatever) version of Linux, and that I'm running kernel
- version 2.6.35.
+We'll give examples using the packaging system shared by Debian and Ubuntu,
+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
+i686 or i386 or whatever) version of Linux, and that I'm running kernel
+version 2.6.35.
PLT Scheme had three salient components: the command-line version "mzscheme", a GUI extension "MrEd", and a teaching-friendly editor/front-end "DrScheme".
In Racket these have been renamed "racket", "gracket", and "DrRacket", respectively.
- Windows: Go to:
- <http://racket-lang.org/download/>
- Download and install the "Windows x86" version.
+* Windows: Go to: <http://racket-lang.org/download/>. Download and install the "Windows x86" version.
- Mac/without MacPorts: Go to:
- <http://racket-lang.org/download/>
- Download and install the option for your system, most likely "Macintosh
- OS X (Intel)"
+* Mac/without MacPorts: Go to: <http://racket-lang.org/download/>. Download and install the option for your system, most likely "Macintosh
+OS X (Intel)"
- Mac/with MacPorts: You can install a command-line version of
- PLT Scheme (dating from early 2009) by opening a Terminal
- and typing:
- sudo port install mzscheme
- If you want the GUI components, I think you'll need to use the
- "Mac/without MacPorts" installation options above.
+* Mac/with MacPorts: You can install a command-line version of
+PLT Scheme (dating from early 2009) by opening a Terminal
+and typing:
- Linux users:
- Use your packaging system, for example, open a Terminal and
- type:
- sudo apt-get install plt-scheme
+ sudo port install mzscheme
- 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/
- Choose the option for your version of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, and two
- varieties of Fedora are available)
+If you want the GUI components, I think you'll need to use the
+"Mac/without MacPorts" installation options above.
+
+Linux users:
+
+Use your packaging system, for example, open a Terminal and
+type:
+
+ sudo apt-get install plt-scheme
+
+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/>
+Choose the option for your version of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, and two
+varieties of Fedora are available)
Getting OCaml
However, if you're not able to get that working, don't worry about it much.
- Windows:
- Go to:
- <http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>
- You can probably download and install the
- "Self installer for the port based on the MinGW toolchain"
- even if you don't know what MinGW or Cygwin are.
- Some features of this require Cygwin, but it looks like
- it should mostly work even for users without Cygwin.
- At the time of this writing, only an installer for the previous
- version of OCaml (3.11.0, from January 2010) is available.
-
- To install the Findlib add-on, you must have the
- 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>
-
- Mac/without MacPorts:
- To install OCaml 3.12 (just released the summer), go to:
- <http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>
- and download and install the "Binary distribution for Mac OS X"
-
- To install the Findlib add-on, you'll need the Xcode development tools
- to compile it yourself. Once you get that far, it's probably easiest
- for you to install MacPorts and just install things using the MacPorts
- 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>
- Unpack the download, open a Terminal and go into the folder you just
- unpacked, and type:
- ./configure
- make package-macosx
- This will build an installer package which you should be able to
- double-click and install.
+* Windows: Go to:<http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>.
+You can probably download and install the
+"Self installer for the port based on the MinGW toolchain"
+even if you don't know what MinGW or Cygwin are.
+Some features of this require Cygwin, but it looks like
+it should mostly work even for users without Cygwin.
+At the time of this writing, only an installer for the previous
+version of OCaml (3.11.0, from January 2010) is available.
+
+To install the Findlib add-on, you must have the
+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>.
+
+* Mac/without MacPorts:
+To install OCaml 3.12 (just released the summer), go to:
+<http://caml.inria.fr/download.en.html>
+and download and install the "Binary distribution for Mac OS X"
+
+To install the Findlib add-on, you'll need the Xcode development tools
+to compile it yourself. Once you get that far, it's probably easiest
+for you to install MacPorts and just install things using the MacPorts
+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>
+Unpack the download, open a Terminal and go into the folder you just
+unpacked, and type:
+
+ ./configure
+ make package-macosx
+
+This will build an installer package which you should be able to
+double-click and install.
- Mac/with MacPorts: you can install the previous version of OCaml (3.11.2,
- from January 2010), together with the Findlib add-on, by opening a Terminal
- and typing:
- sudo port install ocaml caml-findlib
-
- Linux: Use your packaging system, for example, open a Terminal and
- type:
- sudo apt-get install ocaml ocaml-findlib
- That will install a version of OCaml (probably 3.11.2, from January 2010)
- 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>
- 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>
- 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>
+* Mac/with MacPorts: you can install the previous version of OCaml (3.11.2,
+from January 2010), together with the Findlib add-on, by opening a Terminal
+and typing:
+
+ sudo port install ocaml caml-findlib
+
+* Linux: Use your packaging system, for example, open a Terminal and
+type:
+
+ sudo apt-get install ocaml ocaml-findlib
+
+That will install a version of OCaml (probably 3.11.2, from January 2010)
+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>
+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>
+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>