X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn;h=dcd8d1fbe0bfa564cb095001e9941a29f98e6207;hp=1a44722f71b505dc84afd7cfaf688b0dd2a4f5b2;hb=8f243902e5437b1d6467a856c3fb935771cc70ce;hpb=0760b5fdc95476841e6982e4122d93bd9f5e430c diff --git a/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn b/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn index 1a44722f..dcd8d1fb 100644 --- a/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn +++ b/how_to_get_the_programming_languages_running_on_your_computer.mdwn @@ -198,16 +198,15 @@ The current version of Racket is 6.1.1 (released November 2014). Here are the exact steps I just verified worked. Note that I *first installed the Haskell Platform*, described further down this page; that installed some developer tools that were needed to build and install Chicken. If you don't know how to open a Terminal, move between directories, copy / rename / delete files and so on, then you're probably best off not doing this. You could break something. 1. Go to , and click the "Source code" link near the top. Current version is 4.9.0.1, released November 2014. This should fetch a file to your download folder, and will probably automatically unpack that file into a folder, "chicken-4.9.0.1". Click on that folder and press command-C / Copy, then open a Terminal. - 2. In the terminal type `cd` followed by a space, then press command-V / Paste. Then press enter. This will move your session into the folder you just downloaded. - 3. Type `less README` and read that file. - 4. Type `make PLATFORM=macosx XCODE_DEVELOPER= XCODE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/bin PREFIX=$HOME` + 2. In the terminal type `cd` followed by a space, then press command-V / Paste. Then press enter. This will move your session into the folder you just downloaded. + 3. Type `make PLATFORM=macosx XCODE_DEVELOPER= XCODE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/bin PREFIX=$HOME` The options starting with `XCODE_` are to tell the Chicken build scripts that I've got the developer tools installed in my main system, rather than as part of Xcode. (That's where the Haskell Platform installer put them.) Continuing: - 5. Wait a while while Chicken builds. - 6. If it finishes with no errors, then type `make PLATFORM=macosx XCODE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/bin PREFIX=$HOME install`. This will install Chicken in your user home directory. - 7. At this point you can type `which chicken`. It should give you an answer of "/Users/yourname/bin/chicken". - 8. In your terminal, type `chicken-install r7rs datatype matchable monad`. This will download, build, and install a few extensions (Chicken calls them "eggs") relevant to ideas we'll be working with in this course. + 4. Wait a while while Chicken builds. + 5. If it finishes with no errors, then type `make PLATFORM=macosx XCODE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/bin PREFIX=$HOME install`. This will install Chicken in your user home directory. + 6. At this point you can type `which chicken`. It should give you an answer of "/Users/yourname/bin/chicken". + 7. In your terminal, type `chicken-install r7rs datatype matchable monad`. This will download, build, and install a few extensions (Chicken calls them "eggs") relevant to ideas we'll be working with in this course. * **To install on Mac with MacPorts** @@ -419,7 +418,7 @@ Like Scheme, Haskell has a couple of different implementations. The dominant one * **gcc** and **llvm/clang** and **Xcode** and **MinGW** are names for other compilers on various systems. Oftentimes these will be used during the installation process to get GHC up and running. Some of the strategies described below will help you install these if they're not already on your machine. * **alex** and **happy** and **haddock** are names of various Haskell helper programs that GHC uses to get up and running. * **[Cabal](https://www.haskell.org/cabal)** is a "package manager" for Haskell. It allows you to install libraries or extensions that other people have built. (Usually those are published at the [Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org) web site.) Some of these are experimental and may not always work; others are quite fundamental and are almost de facto parts of what people expect in a Haskell system. -* **[Haskell Platform](https://www.haskell.org/platform)** is a standard bundle that includes a fixed version of GHC, plus fixed versions of some of the most popular libraries or extensions. This is updated once or twice a year. The current version is 2014.2.0.0, from August 2014. It includes GHC version 7.8.3. +* **[Haskell Platform](https://www.haskell.org/platform)** is a standard bundle that includes a specific version of GHC, plus specific versions of some of the most popular libraries or extensions. This is updated once or twice a year. The current version is 2014.2.0.0, from August 2014. It includes GHC version 7.8.3. The easiest way to get up and running with Haskell/GHC is to install the Haskell Platform. Here's how to do that **on Windows**: