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Source

HACKT is developed in portable ISO C++ (c++98, c++03, c++11). To build the core of the software, you need a reasonably standard-conforming C++ compiler. Some known good versions of compilers include:

GNU g++ 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3(*), 4.4, 4.6, 4.8
- g++-4.3 is supported after the 20081123 snapshot, but needs -Wno-error=conversion in CXXFLAGS.
- g++-4.4 is supported beyond the 20090429 snapshot, and still needs -Wno-error=conversion in CXXFLAGS.
  Known issues [PR44963 (c++0x rejects-valid)] [PR46170 (c++ rejects-valid)]
- g++-4.5.1 currently crashes compiling some files [~~PR45293 (ICE-on-valid)~~ (4.5.2)] [PR46170 (c++ rejects-valid)]
- g++-4.6.1 was validated on the 20121012 release, and still needs -Wno-error=conversion in CXXFLAGS.
- g++-4.8 needs -Wno-error=unused-local-typedefs in CXXFLAGS
clang 3.1+, after clangification branch merge to master, tagged SNAPSHOT-RELEASE-20121012
- using CXXFLAGS -Wno-error=sign-conversion -Wno-error=sign-compare -Wno-error=unused-function -Wno-error=conversion -Qunused-arguments
- tested against clang release 3.1 on i386-redhat-linux
- tested against Xcode 4.5.1, 4.6.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin11
- tested against Xcode 6.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin13
Xcode 5 had known compatibility issues w.r.t. libc++ -- ~~work in progress towards fixing on branch~~ (fixed, SNAPSHOT-RELEASE-20140805 and later)

Dependencies

For general building (see also README from the distribution):

lex or flex 2.5.4, 2.5.31 -- tokenizer, lexer generator (versions 2.5.33+ work with CVS Tag ≥ HACKT-00-01-04-main-00-84-49)

flex 2.5.35+ has issues, due to changed internals

yacc or GNU bison 1.875+ -- parser generator, LR(1) or LALR(1)

bison 3.0+ untested

GNU readline 4.3+ (optional) -- command-line completion
GNU guile 1.6+, 1.8+ (optional) -- embeddable Scheme interpreter

Since 20090604, all documentation (pdf, ps, html, info) has been pre-generated and is distributed with the source tarballs. Only older distributions (and CVS checkouts) require the following tools for building documentation:

GNU texinfo 4.8+
graphviz 2+
transfig (for fig2dev)
tetex, pdflatex
doxygen (only for source documentation)

Platforms

The following operating systems are supported and frequently tested:

Mac OS X (Darwin 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
FreeBSD (4.3+, 6.2+)
Linux (kernel 2.4, 2.6)
Solaris (9+, 10+), last tested in 2006

The following machine architectures are supported and are frequently tested:

x86
x86_64
PowerPC
PowerPC-64, last tested 2008

Distributions

Binaries

No plans to provide binaries. Use the Source, Luke.

Mac OS X Fink Package

I now maintain a Mac OS X fink package for HACKT.

enable the unstable tree when prompted by fink configure
$ fink selfupdate to get the package description
$ fink install hackt

and fink takes care of the the rest: dependencies, downloading, compiling, packaging, and installing.
I do not have a MacPorts port file for HACKT yet. A port contribution from interested users would be more than welcome!

Releases

There are currently no "releases" in the sense that a series of revisions only receives bug-fixes and no new features. The development line continues to apply fixes and new features. Once there is sufficient interest in a stable release series (and I have the bandwidth to support backporting patches), I will consider maintaining release branches. Until then, help yourselves to the latest development snapshots.

Development Snapshots

Source downloads are available here, however the latest versions are only available through the github repository, described below.

ChangeLog: src/ChangeLog [780k]

Table cells are corresponding MD5 check sums.
date	tar-bzip2	tar-gzip
20121012	`164f00030868487f52fc9bafd69e4f8c` [9.5M]	`56c7d6b2006c66b272ca0ceaf79d81bc` [12M]
20111123	`e9dde5af67253f98a5f05d3343c8b911` [8.1M]	`baa76dfcd98d1c9c812e2c9228f61e3e` [10.3M]
20110803	`797196cb89b75c5acac857a0f7719cf6` [8.1M]	`da199647698480a29c60c87915333e21` [10.2M]
20110503	`4ae7c4933bcc485c9b9acc75677727ca` [8.0M]	`63c5824946f7d4854d98e0152409bc8e` [10.3M]
20100902	`2d8fb12160101e4bf2ba9db8f5276b94` [6.7M]	`a9d4f13b021db04587bc62d7aba0c416` [8.6M]
20100413	`79f25982d6572b59ae7933694933572e` [6.7M]	`dc56d8a9771b711a235e5a6b0d2d2670` [8.6M]
20100105	`1408f8e6cf4841a47d3edbadbdd453ab` [6.6M]	`f4330f36ed150edf25ce6cebb7c3ba29` [8.6M]
20091119	`cd1423e01e41fefb946cf02ecd789d03` [6.4M]	`5986e4635f2ebfa37df697fa0daba08d` [8.2M]
20090914	`6d006f14bdc97ecce444f3ddef21c197` [6.2M]	`01e302dfb6040f98ed3402defb83408e` [8.0M]
20090828	`fe30a882836c8e13f649c1079a701e44` [6.1M]	`c94712f9b7daf6522f1f007604245747` [7.9M]
20090604	`12d86693030c911750df55f544655430` [6.0M]	`7cbc384f2ed0aef8c0ca45b467b97598` [7.8M]
20090429	`a5a633bad07e6b4fbb6a8bd34a3993f2` [3.5M]	`794cd7d3d4d61430917e282da46bc813` [5.1M]
20090222	`df63866b585fa90e34cbf308b18df388` [3.5M]	`88e1875d074a778ac61e07537e1564bb` [5.0M]
20090123	`3020ae8e5740051cf66c2e48a13b8530` [3.4M]	`2b1eb600338d38eaf6eeb475c4ec8db1` [5.0M]
20081222	`90e66ebd5d2f09212c44c20639f349f1` [3.4M]	`c24def7036e1747ac6284be3613424f3` [4.9M]
20081214	`39e32e99f0015a2da82dac75becd1b06` [3.4M]	`7e01bc8206dda6ab5d2409fe35c6d15a` [4.9M]
20081126	`08f2cf90873b558bc784d880deb6ab76` [3.4M]	`a8e1b343b5942c05b41725b5f1f18aac` [4.9M]
20081123	`28bf4f1fe5aeee9b6503b6e65d783854` [3.4M]	`c76f1354b047ceb5916bdb4af77f255f` [4.9M]
20081105	`62f5f2e9b34cd6b0db7fcae957f46218` [3.3M]	`86f575b27f02c44adf18cfaed790bfc4` [4.9M]
20081027	`9b4c5d2ce11e67c632a51a863733d496` [3.3M]	`1d3cfa5d6235b97aa29f559c3307b65d` [4.8M]
20080602	`646294b7641837d47a851fd841c0abdb` [3.2M]	`5b37bfee76414f3c38fd4d9e2ff2929f` [4.8M]

Compilation

The build system follows GNU conventions (configure; make; make install).

Unpack source:
for bzip2 files: $ tar xjvf dist.tar.bz2
for gz files: $ tar xzvf dist.tar.gz
Configure: (autoconf-generated style)
Refer to configure --help for option descriptions
VPATH building is supported (and strongly encouraged), if you want to compile outside of the source directory.
$ /path/to/configure [configure-options]
Recommend:
- --with-readline[=PATH] for command-line completion
- -C caches configuration, speeding up recompiles
- Compilation is known to work with ccache, which dramatically speeds up recompiles.
Compile:
$ make
Strongly recommend parallelizing on multi-processor systems: $ make -jN -r or set MAKEFLAGS
Test Build:
$ make check.log which logs make -k check
Testing is also parallelizable with MAKEFLAGS, so smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Tests may take up to 1.5 GB of disk space, so cd test && make clean to reclaim your space.
Install:
$ make install
or $ make DESTDIR=package-dir install if you are building a package
Test Install: (only if you didn't set DESTDIR with install)
$ make installcheck
Post-install:
Add prefix/bin to your environment's PATH in your startup script.
After setting the path, add to your shell's startup script:
- for [t]csh: source `which init_hackt.csh`
- for [ba]sh: . `which init_hackt.sh`
This sets some environment variables for using HACKT's plug-in libraries.
Reporting of success and failures of the build and tests is greatly appreciated!

git

The HACKT project's source code and revision history is now hosted by github.
The git repository can be accessed anonymously, read-only:

$ git clone git://github.com/fangism/hackt.git hackt

Instructions for building from git

Run ./bootstrap from the source dir, then build as you normally do with configure and make. Details are in README.CVS. Requirements for bootstrapping from git, (see README.CVS):

GNU automake 1.9+
GNU autoconf 2.60+
GNU libtool 1.5.6+ or 2.2+

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