installing FICL on windows with MinGW
Posted by superuser
Ficl is a complete programming language interpreter designed to be embedded into other systems (including firmware based ones) as a command, macro, and development prototype language (about ficl. I use FICL on my FreeBSD server as Forth interpreter, and i decided to install it also on my windows/win32 workstation. Here are my notes:
You should have an ANSI C compiler in your machine. I use MinGW (includes gcc) with MSYS.
- Download ficl-4.1.0 (windows version 2010/10/07)
- Extract with your favorite file archiver ( as 7-zip )
- Enter the ficl directory
lsr@AR-1BBK4 ~ $ cd ficl-4.1.0
and build the app using the Makefile.ansi makefile.
lsr@AR-1BBK4 ~/ficl-4.1.0 $ cp Makefile.ansi Makefile
MinGW comes with the gcc v.4.5.0 (GCC) compiler, so i have to declare this on my Makefile (ansi):
lsr@AR-1BBK4 ~/ficl-4.1.0 $ vim Makefile 1 OBJECTS= dictionary.o system.o fileaccess.o float.o double.o prefix.o search 2 HEADERS= ficl.h ficlplatform/ansi.h 3 # 4 # Flags for shared library 5 TARGET= -ansi -DFICL_ANSI # riscos MOTO_CPU32. 6 SHFLAGS = -fPIC 7 CFLAGS= -O $(SHFLAGS) 8 CPPFLAGS= $(TARGET) -I. 9 CC = gcc ###############<- HERE ################## 0 LIB = ar cr 1 RANLIB = ranlib ...
Now we are ready to build :
lsr@AR-1BBK4 ~/ficl-4.1.0 $ make
In less than 3 minutes your executable ficl.exe will be created in the working directory.
To start the ficl interpreter run ficl.exe
lsr@AR-1BBK4 ~/ficl-4.1.0 $ ficl.exe loading CORE EXT words loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words loading Johns-Hopkins locals loading MARKER loading ficl O-O extensions loading ficl utility classes loading ficl string class Ficl version 4.1.0 Nov 1 2010 ok>
