Building the StdLib

First of all you want to make sure you meet the stdlib-build-requirements.

Then you should clone the GitHub repo, e.g. by

git clone https://github.com/SacBase/Stdlib.git

• you do have a directory named .sac2crc in your home directory for which you have write permissions.
• you have sac2c within your path. This should be a symlink to the RELEASE version (sac2c_p), not the DEBUG version (sac2c_d), as compilation times would be excessive

Once that is done, you can simply follow the instructions from the README file contained in your copy from GitHub:

Work in progress — Hans-Nikolai Viessmann 2016/12/05 22:44

Change your actual path to your check-out of stdlib. Then do

./bootstrap                           # this will scan through all source files
                                      # under /src and store their location for
                                      # later dependency generation. We also
                                      # call autotools and generate the
                                      # ./configure scripts

./configure                           # generate Makefiles

make SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=--disable-opencv
                                      # builds all modules for all (several?)
                                      # targets within the target/<..target..>
                                      # directory. The make command can
                                      # instruct the per-target configuration
                                      # to enable/disable some features. This
                                      # is done by setting the variable
                                      # SUB_CONFIGURE_FLAGS on the command
                                      # line. See `sub/configure --help` for
                                      # further features that can be
                                      # enabled/disabled.

make EXCLUDEMODS="ArrayIO RGB"        # the EXCLUDEMODS var can be used to
                                      # instruct the build system to NOT
                                      # compile the listed modules, even
                                      # against what has been configured.

make INCLUDEMODS="ArrayBasics"        # the INCLUDEMODS will completely
                                      # override the build system and only
                                      # compile the listed modules, including
                                      # their dependencies recursively.

make COPT=2                           # the COPT allows you to control what
                                      # optimisation level is used by the
                                      # compiler, e.g. COPT=1 equates to -O2

make LINKSETSIZE=25                   # the LINKSETSIZE allows you to control
                                      # the SAC compilers `-linksetsize' flag,
                                      # e.g. LINKSETSIZE=15 equates to
                                      # -linksetsize 15

make install                          # moves all your targets into the 
                                      # location of the sac2c compiler

Note, that any call to sac2c will try to find any used or imported modules in the installed version of the stdlib that was installed with sac2c of the very same revision number! So, if you have a newer version of sac2c, be it installed or not, it will no longer find previously compiled and installed libraries! Likewise, if you modify your stdlib, compile it but do not install it, it will not be picked up!

To tackle these issues, you may want to add your stdlib-build-directory to your search pathes in TREE_OUTPUTDIR and LIB_OUTPUTDIR. For convenience, we recommend that you create or add to your local sac2crc file ˜/.sac2crc the following lines and replace STDLIB-BUILD_DIR by the absolute path to your own stdlib build:

target add_stdlib_local:
TREE_OUTPUTDIR += ":STDLIB-BUILD_DIR/lib"
LIB_OUTPUTDIR  += ":STDLIB-BUILD_DIR/lib"

target default_sbi :: add_default_sbi :: add_local :: add_stdlib_local:

• Please note, that the set up suggested above puts your local built directory at the end of the search path. This may lead to a surprise in the following scenario: You build sac2c, you install it and then you never change your compiler. If you now modify the stdlib without installing it, the new version of your stdlib will not be picked up. To avoid this we recommend you either install after each modification of the stdlib -or- you never install the stdlib and always use the above addition to your sac2crc file!
• Note also, that the local (non-installed) version of the stdlib does not encode the compiler version. That, at least in principle, allows any version of sac2c to use the locally compiled stdlib. All that is required is to shadow the installed stdlib by using := instead += in your local .sac2crc. However, this may entail encountering a sac2c error message similar to

  abort: The module 'Array' (/Volumes/Users/sbs/stdlib/lib/tree/host/libArrayTree.dylib) uses an incompatible syntax tree layout. Please update the module and compiler to the most recent version.
  Compilation failed while Loading SAC program, 1 warning(s).

  As a positive side effect, the suggested setup in ./sac2crc allows you to keep the rebuilds of the local stdlib to a minimum during compiler development. Despite changes in the compiler version (with and without commits), the stdlib only requires rebuilding when the syntax tree layout is being modified