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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:
- libck (see install instructions)
- 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.