From Newsgroup: comp.lang.forth

kForth-64 is particularly useful for beginners. It is also quite easy to
build from source under Debian and requires minimal extra packages.
Under Debian the following packages are required:

binutils
gcc
g++
make
libreadline8t64
libreadline-dev

You can "sudo apt-get install" those packages.

The User's Guide provides explicit instructions on building the
executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) from source under Linux. These instructions amount to

0. unpacking the distribution
1. changing to the src/ directory in the distribution
2. typing "make"

The steps above are performed after installing required packages.

You should also set an environment variable, as described in the User's
Guide, to point to a copy of the forth-src directory from the
distribution. This is done in Debian by appending two lines to the
hidden file

.profile

in your home directory:

KFORTH_DIR=$HOME/<your path to copy of forth-src dir>
export KFORTH_DIR

After the edit, log out and log back in. Then do

$ echo $KFORTH_DIR

which should print the default directory for the forth files. This
allows the executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) to find files which
are INCLUDEd in your source.

The User's Guide also provides a gentle introduction to kForth in
Chapter 2. There are numerous source examples. You may download the
kForth-64 source as a zip file from github or as a .tar.gz file from ccreweb.org:

https://github.com/mynenik/kForth-64 https://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html

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Krishna Myneni
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From Newsgroup: comp.lang.forth

In article <10hiivm$3ib13$1@dont-email.me>,
Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> wrote:

kForth-64 is particularly useful for beginners. It is also quite easy to >build from source under Debian and requires minimal extra packages.

The FIG-forth idea was to build only using the assembler provided
by the micro manufacturer. That still exists for ciforth,
assuming you have a the c-compiler installed under Linux.

Unpacking:
tar ciforth...tgz
cd ciforth-...
Build:
as ci86.lina64.s
ld -s -N a.out lina

Under Debian the following packages are required:

binutils
gcc
g++
make
libreadline8t64
libreadline-dev

Under the FIGForth doctrine no installation of other package
is required.
Each package is another risk that it fails.
My Debian doesn't know about libreadline8t64.

You can "sudo apt-get install" those packages.

The User's Guide provides explicit instructions on building the
executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) from source under Linux. These >instructions amount to

0. unpacking the distribution
1. changing to the src/ directory in the distribution
2. typing "make"

The steps above are performed after installing required packages.

You should also set an environment variable, as described in the User's >Guide, to point to a copy of the forth-src directory from the
distribution. This is done in Debian by appending two lines to the
hidden file

.profile

in your home directory:

KFORTH_DIR=$HOME/<your path to copy of forth-src dir>
export KFORTH_DIR

After the edit, log out and log back in. Then do

$ echo $KFORTH_DIR

which should print the default directory for the forth files. This
allows the executables (kforth64 and kforth64-fast) to find files which
are INCLUDEd in your source.

The User's Guide also provides a gentle introduction to kForth in
Chapter 2. There are numerous source examples. You may download the
kForth-64 source as a zip file from github or as a .tar.gz file from >ccreweb.org:

https://github.com/mynenik/kForth-64 >https://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html

--
Krishna Myneni

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