compiling a hope interpreter

[wooks]

Sorry if this is very basic.

I have bought a Functional Programming book that uses the language
Hope.
I have managed to locate and extract Ross Pattersons hope interpreter
from http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ros s/Hope/

However it seems what I have got is the C source code and I haven't got
a clue what to do with it.

Can someone step me through what i need to do to get the ball rolling -
I am on Windows XP and the docs seem to be written for a unix bod who
knows what he is doing.

 

[Eric Lavigne]

Can someone step me through what i need to do to get the ball rolling -

I am on Windows XP and the docs seem to be written for a unix bod who
knows what he is doing.

This "unix bod" would only need to know that he should look in the
INSTALL file if he wants to install something. It would then give him
the simple instruction to type "make install" It's only non-unix folks
that have to know what they are doing

The first thing I would try, to get this interpreter working, would be
to install cygwin. cygwin is a unix emulator, so you should be able to
follow the installation instructions from a cygwin prompt, just as unix
folks can follow them from a unix prompt.

I have bought a Functional Programming book that uses the language
Hope.
I have managed to locate and extract Ross Pattersons hope interpreter
from http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ros s/Hope/

Alternatively, try a different language. Do you have reason to be
attached to this particular language or book? The usual language for
teaching functional programming is Scheme. There are many easy to
install interpreters (and compilers). There is an active community that
you can tap into at comp.lang.scheme. There are also plenty of
functional programming books that you could use, including the Wizard
Book, which is available online at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

 

[wooks]

This "unix bod" would only need to know that he should look in the
INSTALL file if he wants to install something. It would then give him
the simple instruction to type "make install" It's only non-unix folks
that have to know what they are doing

Well I did get that far but make install didn't make sense in windows
hence I asked the question.

The first thing I would try, to get this interpreter working, would be
to install cygwin. cygwin is a unix emulator, so you should be able to
follow the installation instructions from a cygwin prompt, just as unix
folks can follow them from a unix prompt.

I have installed cygwin. I have moved the hope directory to be beneath
the home directory that cygwin created for me (I presume that was the
right thing to do).

When I type make install it says
bash: make: command not found.

.......

Here is what the INSTALL file says maybe u see what I mean ... it does
seem a bit terse.

INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

Unix:
make install

That will put everything under /usr/local. If you want them somewhere
else, set configure_args in the top-level Makefile.

Others:
- you will need to adjust hopelib.h for the target machine.
- copy *.[hc] and ../lib/*.hop to your machine.
- bash it till it fits.

The Hope error message:
fatal error - can't read module 'Standard'
indicates a slip-up in hopelib.h.

VARIABLES

You might wish to (un)define the following cpp variables:

REALS num.h represent numbers as double, rather than long.
STATS runtime.c produce statistics on space usage and the
garbage collector.
STATS interpret.c produce statistics on expressions entered.

There are also a number of variables in print.h which control the way
expressions, values and types are parenthesized on output.

You might also wish to adjust the variable MEMSIZE (in memory.c), which
controls the amount of data space used.

OTHER FILES

NOTES maintenance notes
HISTORY revision history

Alternatively, try a different language. Do you have reason to be
attached to this particular language or book?

Yes. I paid good money for it.

Seriously I wish it used a different language but it doesn't I don't
want the complication of simultaneously learning a new programming
paradigm and having to translate into another language to follow the
text or do the exercises.

The usual language for
teaching functional programming is Scheme. There are many easy to
install interpreters (and compilers). There is an active community that
you can tap into at comp.lang.scheme. There are also plenty of
functional programming books that you could use, including the Wizard
Book, which is available online at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Yep am learning scheme and keep dipping into HTDP. But I am bloody
minded enough to want to read this book .... first couple of chapters
are quite readable.

So thank you for your help so far ..... if you can get me over the next
hump I'll be very grateful.

 

[Eric Lavigne]

I have installed cygwin. I have moved the hope directory to be beneath

the home directory that cygwin created for me (I presume that was the
right thing to do).

When I type make install it says
bash: make: command not found.

make is a unix program. You need it. It is almost certainly included by
default in cygwin, so this error message means there is something wrong
with your cygwin installation. The first thing I would do is search
(windows start menu) for "make" and see if there is a file called make
somewhere on your computer (probably buried somewhere in the cygwin
folder). If you have it, then maybe there is some environment variable
that you need to set in order to use it. There should be some sort of
installation instructions that came with cygwin that would help you
through this issue.

 

[Keith Thompson]

make is a unix program. You need it. It is almost certainly included by
default in cygwin, so this error message means there is something wrong
with your cygwin installation. The first thing I would do is search
(windows start menu) for "make" and see if there is a file called make
somewhere on your computer (probably buried somewhere in the cygwin
folder). If you have it, then maybe there is some environment variable
that you need to set in order to use it. There should be some sort of
installation instructions that came with cygwin that would help you
through this issue.

<OT>
The Cygwin installer provides a multitude of options for what you want
to install. I don't remember whether "make" is included by default.
You may have to go through the menus in the installer to be sure that
you install "make" and whatever else you need. There doesn't seem to
be an easy way to tell it to install everything.

See www.cygwin.com for a pointer to the mailing list where this is
topical.
</OT>

 

[mensanator]

<OT>
The Cygwin installer provides a multitude of options for what you want
to install. I don't remember whether "make" is included by default.

It isn't. I ran into the same problem trying to install GMP.
Unfortunately, I don't recall exactly what all the missing pieces
were. Definitely m4 in addition to make.

But here's my setup log from Cygwin. Perhaps the OP can compare
his setup log to see what I've got that he doesn't.

2005/05/28 16:37:30 Visited: 101 nodes out of 559.
2005/05/28 16:37:30 Dependency ordered install:
2005/05/28 16:37:30 ash
2005/05/28 16:37:30 aspell
2005/05/28 16:37:30 aspell-en
2005/05/28 16:37:30 base-files
2005/05/28 16:37:30 base-passwd
2005/05/28 16:37:30 bash
2005/05/28 16:37:30 bc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 binutils
2005/05/28 16:37:30 bzip2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 coreutils
2005/05/28 16:37:30 crypt
2005/05/28 16:37:30 cygutils
2005/05/28 16:37:30 cygwin
2005/05/28 16:37:30 cygwin-doc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 diffutils
2005/05/28 16:37:30 editrights
2005/05/28 16:37:30 expat
2005/05/28 16:37:30 findutils
2005/05/28 16:37:30 fontconfig
2005/05/28 16:37:30 freetype2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gawk
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gcc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gcc-core
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gcc-g++
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gcc-mingw-core
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gcc-mingw-g++
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gdbm
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gettext
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gmp
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gnuplot
2005/05/28 16:37:30 grep
2005/05/28 16:37:30 groff
2005/05/28 16:37:30 gzip
2005/05/28 16:37:30 less
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libaspell15
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libbz2_1
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libcharset1
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libdb4.2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libfontconfig1
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libfreetype26
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libgd2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libgdbm
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libgdbm-devel
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libgdbm3
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libgdbm4
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libiconv
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libiconv2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libintl
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libintl1
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libintl2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libintl3
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libjpeg62
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libncurses5
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libncurses6
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libncurses7
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libncurses8
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libpcre
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libpcre0
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libpng12
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libpopt0
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libreadline4
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libreadline5
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libreadline6
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libXft
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libXft1
2005/05/28 16:37:30 libXft2
2005/05/28 16:37:30 login
2005/05/28 16:37:30 m4
2005/05/28 16:37:30 make
2005/05/28 16:37:30 man
2005/05/28 16:37:30 mingw-runtime
2005/05/28 16:37:30 mktemp
2005/05/28 16:37:30 ncurses
2005/05/28 16:37:30 openssl
2005/05/28 16:37:30 pcre
2005/05/28 16:37:30 pcre-doc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 perl
2005/05/28 16:37:30 python
2005/05/28 16:37:30 readline
2005/05/28 16:37:30 ruby
2005/05/28 16:37:30 sed
2005/05/28 16:37:30 tar
2005/05/28 16:37:30 tcltk
2005/05/28 16:37:30 termcap
2005/05/28 16:37:30 terminfo
2005/05/28 16:37:30 texinfo
2005/05/28 16:37:30 w32api
2005/05/28 16:37:30 which
2005/05/28 16:37:30 X-startup-scripts
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-base
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-bin
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-bin-dlls
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-bin-lndir
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-etc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-fenc
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-fnts
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-libs-data
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xorg-x11-xwin
2005/05/28 16:37:30 xterm
2005/05/28 16:37:30 zlib

 

[wooks]

I have found the cygwin FAQ and hopefuly will go on from there.

Thanks for all the help.