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Development Guide

Environment

During development it is a good idea to clone the cyclone-bootstrap repository as well as the cyclone one. Place both directories in the same parent directory and you can use sync.sh to copy individual compiled files to cyclone-bootstrap, or make bootstrap to copy everything.

Building

Please use cyclone-bootstrap if you are installing Cyclone on a machine for the first time. Otherwise, if you already have a copy of Cyclone installed you can build from Scheme source.

The following prerequisites are required:

  • make
  • gcc

From the source directory, use the following commands to build and install:

$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install
$ cyclone

By default everything is installed under /usr/local. This may be changed by passing a different PREFIX. For example:

make PREFIX=/home/me install

Testing a Build

make test may be used to perform basic testing.

To make sure everything works, install a modified copy of Cyclone and run the following to rebuild the libraries, compiler, interpreter, and examples from source:

$ make clean
$ make
$ make test
$ make bootstrap

This confirms that the compiler - with any changes - can still be built from source, and syncs any changes up to cyclone-bootstrap. Before checking in a set of changes or releasing a build it is also a good idea to do a rebuild of the bootstrap repo also, to make sure it still works.