$Id: README.unix,v 1.1 2000/10/15 18:09:22 darren Exp $


Release notes for the Unix platform


If you are installing this stuff on Unix/Linux, you are in luck. Everything
has been automated.

If you are reading this file, you have probably already extracted the
distribution archive. To install EiffelFox on Unix, you need to run the
"configure" script found in the directory containing this file, which also
accepts the options detailed in the file "INSTALL". Run "./configure", adding
any appropriate options. This will automatically perform the following steps:

    1.  Detect the available Eiffel compilers.

    2.  Create makefiles which allow you to compile various configurations of
        the EiffelFox C++ glue library, depending upon which Eiffel compilers
        are available and whether GL is available on your system.

    3.  If the ISE compiler was detected, ACE files by the name of Ace.ace
        will be created in the precomp and example/* directories.

    4.  If the Halstenbach compiler was detected, ACE files by the name of
        iss.ace will be created in the precomp and example/hello and
        example/groupbox directories.

    5.  The makefiles will be customized to building the appropriate default
        targets for all available Eiffel compilers.

When configure is finished, simply type "make". This will build the
EiffelFox C++ glue library for each of the Eiffel compilers you have
installed.

You can also execute "make precompile", which will build a precompiled
library in the "precomp" directory for the ISE compiler. However, this
will automatically be built if you supplied the configure option
--enable-precompile.

When you are finished building the libraries, you can execute "make
mostlyclean", which will remove all of the intermediate generated files,
but leave the *.a archives and precompiled libraries.

In general, to build an example application from its directory, you simply
issue the "make" command specifying one of the targets, "ise", "iss", or
"se", to build it using the ISE EiffeBench, Halstenbach iss-base, or
SmallEiffel compiler, respectively. To build finalized applications for the
ISE and Halstenbach compilers, you can specify the targets "ise-finalize", or
"iss-finalize".