From e919b21e6e0feaece3ce53d41b6746b1ed93192e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Shinn Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:08:25 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Updating README. --- README | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index df072995..981a949e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,15 +11,22 @@ and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously in different OS threads. -The default language is R5RS Scheme with support for additional +The default language is R7RS Scheme with support for additional languages such as JavaScript to be provided in future releases. Scheme is chosen as a substrate because its first class continuations and guaranteed tail-call optimization makes implementing other languages easy. -To build on most platforms just run "make". This will provide a -shared library "libchibi-scheme", as well as a sample "chibi-scheme" -command-line repl. +To build on most platforms just run "make && make test". This will +provide a shared library "libchibi-scheme", as well as a sample +"chibi-scheme" command-line repl. You can then run + + sudo make PREFIX=/usr/local install + +to install the binaries, leaving out the PREFIX for the default +/usr/local or specifying an alternate install location. If you want +to try out chibi-scheme without installing, be sure to set +LD_LIBRARY_PATH so it can find the shared libraries. For more detailed documentation, run "make doc" and see the generated "doc/chibi.html".