OpenEuphoria

Re: Building Euphoria -- what am I missing?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.co?> Aug 13, 2007
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > Try using the make files.  I believe that Rob's batch files, etc, are for
> > older versions of Watcom and gcc.  On windows:
> > 
> > > wmake -f makefile.wat interpreter=1
> > 
> > On linux:
> > 
> > $ make interpreter
> > 
> > Look at the makefiles for details on building the other binaries.
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> Okay, next dumb question:
> "make translator" on Linux or "wmake -f makefile.wat translator=1" on Windows
> don't seem to work. Both Windows and Linux give me the error that ec.c does
> not exist.
> 
> I made the interpreter first, and then I made the library. Any suggestions?

Between making any of the binaries, you have to "make clean":

$ make clean

> wmake -f makefile.wat clean

The reason for this is because the makefile has to detect when to run the
translator by looking at the euphoria source files.  But when you make the
various binaries, it can't detect that it needs to retranslate the euphoria
code.  This seems like a hassle, but if you're doing stuff with the backend,
it makes development a lot easier, since it will only have to recompile
the files that you've modified.  But since none of the euphoria code has
been modified, you have to clean the make to get it to retranslate, because
hte main-* files will all be different, as will some of the others, just
based on the code itself.

Matt