
==========================
Installing Pure (and LLVM)
==========================

Version 0.55, |today|

| Albert Graef <Dr.Graef at t-online.de>
| Eddie Rucker <erucker at bmc.edu>

.. This document is now in RST format so that it can be included in the manual.
.. default-domain:: pure
.. highlight:: console

These instructions explain how to compile and install LLVM (which is the
compiler backend required by Pure) and the Pure interpreter itself. The
instructions are somewhat biased towards Linux and other Unix-like systems;
the `System Notes`_ section at the end of this file details the tweaks
necessary to make Pure compile and run on various other platforms. More
information about installing LLVM and the required LLVM source packages can be
found at http://llvm.org.

Pure is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX and MS Windows, and
should compile (with the usual amount of tweaking) on all recent UNIX/POSIX-
based platforms. We recommend using version 4.x of the GNU C++ compiler; it
should be available almost everywhere (in fact, since you'll need LLVM anyway,
you may also use one of the LLVM-based C/C++ compilers such as llvm-gcc or
clang). You'll also need a Bourne-compatible shell and GNU make, which are
also readily available on most platforms.

A binary package in msi format is provided for Windows users in the download
area of the http://pure-lang.googlecode.com project page. Ports and packages
for other systems are also available; see the `System Notes`_ section below
for details.


Quick Summary
=============

Here is the executive summary for the impatient. This assumes that you're
using LLVM 3.1 and Pure 0.55, please substitute your actual version
numbers in the commands given below.

Prerequisites: gcc, GNU make, flex/bison (development sources only), libltdl,
libgmp and libmpfr (including header files for development), wget (for
downloading and installing the online documentation), GNU emacs (if you want
to use Emacs Pure mode). These should all be available as binary packages on
most systems.

You'll probably need the latest Pure and LLVM tarballs which, at the time of
this writing, are available here:

| http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/files/pure-0.55.tar.gz
| http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/llvm-3.1.src.tar.gz
| http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/clang-3.1.src.tar.gz
| http://llvm.org/releases/3.1/dragonegg-3.1.src.tar.gz

.. note:: If you're reading this documentation online, then the Pure version
   described here most likely is still under development, in which case you
   can either grab the latest available release, or install from the
   development sources instead (see `Installing From Development Sources`_
   below).

Installing LLVM and clang (the latter is optional but recommended)::

  $ tar xfvz llvm-3.1.src.tar.gz
  $ tar xfvz clang-3.1.src.tar.gz && mv clang-3.1.src llvm-3.1.src/tools/clang
  $ cd llvm-3.1.src
  $ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-optimized --enable-targets=host-only
  $ make && sudo make install

You may want to leave out ``--enable-shared`` to install LLVM as static
libraries only, and ``--enable-targets=host-only`` if you want to enable cross
compilation for all supported targets in LLVM. (With some older LLVM versions
you may also have to add ``--disable-assertions --disable-expensive-checks``
to disable stuff that makes LLVM very slow and/or breaks it on some systems.)

If you're running gcc 4.5 or later, you may also want to install the LLVM
"DragonEgg" plugin for gcc, please check the dragonegg_ section below for
details.

Installing Pure::

  $ tar xfvz pure-0.55.tar.gz
  $ cd pure-0.55
  $ ./configure --enable-release
  $ make && sudo make install

Depending on your system you may have to run a utility to announce the shared
LLVM and Pure libraries to the dynamic loader. E.g., on Linux::

  $ sudo /sbin/ldconfig

It is also recommended that you run the following to make sure that the Pure
interpreter works correctly on your platform (see step 5 below for details)::

  $ make check

The following is optional, but if you want to read the online documentation in
the interpreter or in `Emacs Pure mode`_, you'll have to download and install
the documentation files::

  $ sudo make install-docs

This needs the ``wget`` program. You can also download the pure-docs tarball
manually and then install it from a local file, e.g.::

  $ sudo make install-docs docs=pure-docs-0.55.tar.gz

That's it, Pure should be ready to go now::

  $ pure

Uninstalling::

  $ cd pure-0.55
  $ sudo make uninstall
  $ cd ../llvm-3.1.src
  $ sudo make uninstall

Please see below for much more detailed installation instructions.


Basic Installation
==================

The basic installation process is as follows. Note that steps 1-3 are only
required once. Steps 2-3 can be avoided if binary LLVM packages are available
for your system (but see the caveats about broken LLVM packages on some
systems below). Additional instructions for compiling Pure from the latest
repository sources can be found in the `Installing From Development Sources`_
section below. Moreover, you can refer to the `Other Build And Installation
Options`_ section below for details about various options available when
building and installing Pure.

**Step 1.** Make sure you have all the necessary dependencies installed
(``-dev`` denotes corresponding development packages):

- GNU make, GNU C/C++ and the corresponding libraries;

- the GNU multiprecision library (``libgmp``, ``-dev``) or some compatible
  replacement (see comments below);

- the GNU multiprecision floating point library (``libmpfr``, ``-dev``);

- GNU readline (``libreadline``, ``-dev``) or some compatible replacement
  (only needed if you want command line editing support in the interpreter;
  see comments below).

- GNU emacs (if you want to use Pure mode).

In addition, the following will be required to compile the development version
(see the `Installing From Development Sources`_ section below):

- autoconf;

- flex and bison;

- mercurial (needed to fetch the development sources).

The following may be required to build some LLVM versions:

- GNU ltdl library (``libltdl``, ``-dev``).

All dependencies are available as free software. Here are some links if you
need or want to install the dependencies from source:

- Autoconf: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf

- GNU C/C++: http://gcc.gnu.org

- GNU make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make

- Flex: http://flex.sourceforge.net

- Bison: http://www.gnu.org/software/bison

- GNU Emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

- GNU ltdl (part of the libtool software): http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool

- Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com (There's also a very nice Windows
  frontend, TortoiseHg, see http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org.)

The GNU multiprecision library or some compatible replacement is required for
Pure's bigint support. Instead of GMP it's also possible to use MPIR. You can
find these here:

- GMP: http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp

- MPIR: http://www.mpir.org

If you have both GMP and MPIR installed, you can specify ``--with-mpir`` when
configuring Pure to indicate that Pure should be linked against MPIR. Note
that using this option might cause issues with some Pure modules which
explicitly link against GMP. If you run into any such problems then you should
build MPIR with the ``--enable-gmpcompat`` configure option so that it becomes
a drop-in replacement for GMP (in this case the ``--with-mpir`` option isn't
needed when configuring Pure).

In addition, Pure 0.48 and later also require the GNU multiprecision floating
point library:

- MPFR: http://www.mpfr.org

(Pure doesn't really have built-in support for MPFR numbers, this is provided
through a separate pure-mpfr addon module instead, please check the Pure
website for details. However, there is now some support for printing both GMP
and MPFR numbers in the ``printf`` and ``scanf`` functions of the
:mod:`system` module, for which the MPFR library is needed.)

To make interactive command line editing work in the interpreter, you'll also
need GNU readline or some compatible replacement such as BSD editline/libedit:

- GNU readline: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

- BSD editline/libedit: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline

We recommend GNU readline because it's easier to use and has full UTF-8
support, but in some situations BSD editline/libedit may be preferable for
license reasons or because it's what the operating system provides. Pure's
configuration script automatically detects the presence of both packages and
also lets you disable readline and/or editline support using the
``--without-readline`` and ``--without-editline`` options.

**Step 2.** Get and unpack the latest LLVM sources.

You can find these at http://llvm.org/releases/download.html.

You only need the llvm-2.x or 3.x tarball which contains the LLVM library as
well as most of the LLVM toolchain. LLVM 3.1 is the latest stable release at
the time of this writing. LLVM versions 2.5 thru 3.1 have all been tested and
are known to work with Pure. We really recommend using LLVM 2.8 or later,
however, because LLVM has improved considerably in recent releases. (Support
for older versions may be dropped in the future.)

The latest LLVM from svn might work as well, but we don't guarantee this.
While we're committed to make Pure work with new LLVM versions as they become
available, we're not able to track LLVM development in the trunk very closely.
So you might run into intermittent compilation problems, bugs and other
incompatibilities when going with the svn version.

At this point we also recommend getting an LLVM-capable C/C++ compiler. This
is completely optional, but you'll need it to take advantage of the new
bitcode loader in Pure 0.44 and later. The easiest way to go is to take the
clang-2.x or 3.x tarball which corresponds to your LLVM version, unpack its
contents into the LLVM tools directory and rename the ``clang-x.y`` directory
to just ``clang``. The clang compiler will then be built and installed along
with LLVM. You can also use llvm-gcc or dragonegg instead, please see
`Installing an LLVM-capable C/C++ Compiler`_ below for further details.

.. note:: Some (older) Linux and BSD distributions provide LLVM packages and
   ports which are compiled with wrong configure options and are thus broken.
   If the Pure interpreter segfaults on startup or fails its test suite
   (``make check``) then you should check whether there's a newer LLVM package
   available for your system, or compile LLVM yourself.

**Step 3.** Configure, build and install LLVM as follows::

  $ cd llvm-3.1.src
  $ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-optimized --enable-targets=host-only
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

LLVM 2.7 and earlier may also require the flags ``--disable-assertions``
``--disable-expensive-checks`` to disable some features which make LLVM slow
and/or buggy on some systems. With LLVM 2.8 and later these options aren't
needed any more.

Note that the ``--enable-shared`` option builds and installs LLVM as a shared
library, which is often preferable if you're running different LLVM-based
tools and compilers on your system. This requires LLVM 2.7 or later and may be
broken on some systems. You can always leave out that option, in which case
LLVM will be linked statically into the Pure runtime library. (You can also
force Pure to be linked statically against LLVM even if you have the shared
LLVM library installed, by configuring Pure with the ``--with-static-llvm``
flag. This may be useful if you plan to deploy the Pure runtime library on
systems which don't have LLVM installed.)

.. note:: With LLVM 2.5, on x86-64 systems you have to add ``--enable-pic`` to
   the configure command, so that the static LLVM libraries can be linked into
   the Pure runtime library. (Do *not* add this option when compiling on a 32
   bit system, it's broken there.) With LLVM 2.6 and later this option isn't
   needed anymore. See the comments on 32/64 bit support in the `System
   Notes`_ section below for details.

Also note that the configure flags are for an optimized (non-debug) build and
disable all compilation targets but the one for your system. You might wish to
play with the configure options, but note that some options (especially
``--enable-expensive-checks``) make LLVM very slow and may even break the Pure
interpreter on some systems.

**Step 4.** Get and unpack the Pure sources.

These can be downloaded from http://pure-lang.googlecode.com. The latest
source tarballs can always be found under the "Featured Downloads" there.

**Step 5.** Configure, build and install Pure as follows (``x.y`` denotes the
current Pure version number)::

  $ cd pure-x.y
  $ ./configure --enable-release
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

The ``--enable-release`` option configures Pure for a release build. This is
recommended for maximum performance. If you leave away this option then you'll
get a default build which includes debugging information and runtime checks
useful for the Pure maintainers, but also runs considerably slower.

To find out about other build options, you can invoke configure as
``./configure --help``.

The ``sudo make install`` command installs the pure program, the runtime.h
header file, the runtime library libpure.so, a Pure pkg-config file (pure.pc)
and the library scripts in the appropriate subdirectories of /usr/local; the
installation prefix can be changed with the ``--prefix`` configure option, see
`Other Build And Installation Options`_ for details. (The runtime.h header
file is not needed for normal operation, but can be used to write C/C++
extensions modules, if you need to access and manipulate Pure expressions from
C/C++.)

In addition, if the presence of GNU Emacs was detected at configure time, then
by default pure-mode.el and pure-mode.elc will be installed in the Emacs
site-lisp directory. make tries to guess the proper location of the site-lisp
directory, but if it guesses wrong or if you want to install in some custom
location then you can also set the ``elispdir`` make variable accordingly. If
you prefer, you can also disable the automatic installation of the elisp files
by running configure with ``./configure --without-elisp``. (In that case, it's
still possible to install the elisp files manually with ``make install-el
install-elc``.)

On some systems you have to tell the dynamic linker to update its cache so
that it finds the Pure runtime library. E.g., on Linux this is done as
follows::

  $ sudo /sbin/ldconfig

After the build is complete, you can (and should) also run a few tests to
check that Pure is working correctly on your computer::

  $ make check

(This can be done before actually installing Pure, but make sure that you
first run ``ldconfig`` or similar if you installed LLVM as a shared library,
otherwise ``make check`` may fail simply because the LLVM library isn't
found.)

If all is well, all tests should pass. If not, the test directory will contain
some ``*.diff`` files containing further information about the failed tests.
In that case please zip up the entire test directory and mail it to the
author, post it on the Pure mailing list, or enter a bug report at
http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/issues/list. Also please include precise
information about your platform (operating system and cpu architecture) and
the Pure and LLVM versions and/or source revision numbers you're running.

Note that ``make check`` executes the run-tests script which is generated at
configure time. If necessary, you can also run individual tests by running
run-tests directly (e.g., ``./run-tests test/test020.pure test/test047.pure``)
or rerun only the tests that failed on the previous invocation (``./run-tests
-f`` or, equivalently, ``make recheck``).

Also note that MSYS 1.0.11 (or at least the diffutils package from that
version) is required to make ``make check`` work on Windows. Also, under MS
Windows this step is expected to fail on some math tests in test020.pure; this
is nothing to worry about, it just indicates that some math routines in
Microsoft's C library aren't fully POSIX-compatible. The same applies to BSD
systems.

If Pure appears to be broken on your system (``make check`` reports a lot of
failures), it's often because of a miscompiled LLVM. Please review the
instructions under step 3, and check the `System Notes`_ section to see
whether your platform is known to have issues and which workarounds may be
needed. If all that doesn't help then you might be running into LLVM bugs and
limitations on not-so-well supported platforms; in that case please also
report the results of ``make check`` as described above, so that we can try to
figure out what is going on and whether there's a fix or workaround for the
problem.

.. note:: If you have one of the LLVM C/C++ compilers installed (see
   `Installing an LLVM-capable C/C++ Compiler`_), you can use those to compile
   Pure by passing the appropriate compiler names on the configure line::

     $ ./configure --enable-release CC=clang CXX=clang++

   Or, when using llvm-gcc::

     $ ./configure --enable-release CC=llvm-gcc CXX=llvm-g++

   llvm-gcc 4.2 and clang 2.8 or later should build Pure cleanly and pass all
   checks.

**Step 6.** Download and install the online documentation as follows::

  $ sudo make install-docs

This isn't necessary to run the interpreter, but highly recommended, as it
gives you a complete set of manuals in html format which covers the Pure
language and interpreter, the standard library, and all addon modules
available from the Pure website. You can read these manuals with the ``help``
command in the interpreter. You also need to have a html browser installed to
make this work. By default, the interpreter assumes w3m (a text-based
browser), you can change this by setting the ``BROWSER`` or the ``PURE_HELP``
variable accordingly.

By default, the ``install-docs`` target requires a working Internet connection
and the wget command. Instead, you can also download the pure-docs-x.y.tar.gz
tarball manually and then install the documentation from the downloaded
tarball (the x.y version number of the documentation tarball should correspond
to your interpreter version)::

  $ sudo make install-docs docs=pure-docs-x.y.tar.gz

As a bonus, downloading the package manually also gives you the documentation
in pdf format, so that you can print it if you like.

**Step 7.** The Pure interpreter should be ready to go now.

Run Pure interactively as::

  $ pure
  Pure 0.55 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (c) 2008-2011 by Albert Graef
  (Type 'help' for help, 'help copying' for license information.)
  Loaded prelude from /usr/local/lib/pure/prelude.pure.

Check that it works::

  > 6*7;
  42

Read the online documentation::

  > help

Exit the interpreter (you can also just type the end-of-file character at the
beginning of a line, i.e., ``Ctrl-D`` on Unix)::

  > quit

You can also run the interpreter from GNU Emacs (see below), and for Windows
there is a nice GUI application named "PurePad" which makes it easy to edit
and run your Pure scripts.


Emacs Pure Mode
===============

This step is optional, but if you're friends with Emacs then you should
definitely give Pure mode a try. This is an Emacs programming mode which turns
Emacs into an advanced IDE to edit and run Pure programs. If Emacs was
detected by configure then after running ``make`` and ``sudo make install``
the required elisp files should already be installed in the Emacs site-lisp
directory (unless you specifically disabled this with the ``--without-elisp``
configure option).

Note: make tries to guess the Emacs installation prefix. If it gets this
wrong, you can also set the make variable ``elispdir`` to point to your
site-lisp directory. (In fact, you can specify any directory on Emacs'
loadpath for ``elispdir``.)

Before you can use Pure mode, you still have to add some stuff to your .emacs
file to load the mode at startup. A minimal setup looks like this::

  (require 'pure-mode)
  (setq auto-mode-alist
        (cons '("\\.pure\\(rc\\)?$" . pure-mode) auto-mode-alist))
  (add-hook 'pure-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
  (add-hook 'pure-eval-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

This loads Pure mode, associates the .pure and .purerc filename extensions
with it, and enables syntax highlighting.

Other useful options are described at the beginning of the pure-mode.el
file. In particular, we recommend installing emacs-w3m and enabling it as
follows in your .emacs file, so that you can read the online documentation in
Emacs::

  (require 'w3m-load)

Also, you can enable code folding by adding this to your .emacs::

  (require 'hideshow)
  (add-hook 'pure-mode-hook 'hs-minor-mode)

These lines should come before the loading of Pure mode in your .emacs, so
that Pure mode can adjust accordingly.

Once Emacs has been configured to load Pure mode, you can just run it with a
Pure file to check that it works, e.g.::

  $ emacs examples/hello.pure

The online help about Pure mode can be read with ``C-h m``. The Pure
documentation can be accessed in Pure mode with ``C-c h``.


Installing an LLVM-capable C/C++ Compiler
=========================================

As already mentioned above, we suggest that you also install a C/C++ compiler
with an LLVM backend. Clang, llvm-gcc as well as the new dragonegg gcc plugin
are all fully supported by Pure. Pure can be used without this, but then
you'll miss out on the LLVM bitcode loader and C/C++ inlining facilities in
Pure 0.44 and later. (However, you can always install clang, llvm-gcc and/or
dragonegg at a later time to enable these features.)

clang
-----

With LLVM 2.8 and later, we recommend installing clang, the new LLVM-based
C/C++ compiler (http://clang.llvm.org/). It's much easier to build, runs
faster and has better diagnostics than gcc. Also, as of Pure 0.55 it is the
default for compiling inline C/C++ code, so it's the easiest way to go if you
want to use that feature.

If you haven't built clang along with LLVM yet, you can now just drop the
contents of the clang-x.y tarball into the ``llvm-x.y/tools`` directory,
renaming the resulting ``clang-x.y`` directory to just ``clang``. Then build
and install clang as follows::

  $ cd llvm-3.1.src/tools/clang
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

llvm-gcc
--------

.. note:: This section applies to LLVM versions up to 2.9. With LLVM 3.0 or
   later, llvm-gcc is not supported any more and you should use clang_ or
   dragonegg_ instead.

If available, llvm-gcc can be installed either as an alternative or in
addition to clang. The main advantage of llvm-gcc over clang is that it has
additional language frontends (Ada and Fortran).

Installing llvm-gcc from source actually isn't all that difficult, if a bit
time-consuming. Assuming that you have unpacked both the LLVM and the llvm-gcc
sources in the same directory, you can build and install llvm-gcc as follows::

  $ cd llvm-gcc-4.2-2.9.source
  $ mkdir obj
  $ cd obj
  $ ../configure --program-prefix=llvm- --enable-llvm=$PWD/../../llvm-2.9 --enable-languages=c,c++
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

(You might wish to add ``fortran`` to ``--enable-languages`` if you also want
to build the Fortran compiler, and, likewise, ``ada`` for the Ada compiler.)

Be patient, this takes a while.

Having installed llvm-gcc, you can add something like the following lines to
your shell startup files, so that Pure uses it for inlined C/C++/Fortran code::

  export PURE_CC=llvm-gcc
  export PURE_CXX=llvm-g++
  export PURE_FC=llvm-gfortran

dragonegg
---------

If you're running LLVM 3.x, then instead of llvm-gcc you should use
"DragonEgg" (http://dragonegg.llvm.org/), the new LLVM backend for gcc >=4.5.
This is provided in the form of a plugin which, if you have gcc 4.5 or later,
readily plugs into your existing system compiler.

If you already have a suitable gcc version, installing DragonEgg is a piece of
cake. First, make sure that you have the mpc and gcc plugin development files
installed (packages ``mpc-dev`` and ``gcc-plugin-dev`` on Ubuntu). Then, after
unpacking the dragonegg source tarball or downloading the svn sources, install
dragonegg as follows::

  $ make
  $ sudo cp dragonegg.so `gcc -print-file-name=plugin`

Finally, add something like the following lines to your shell startup files,
so that Pure uses gcc+dragonegg for all inlined C/C++/Fortran code::

  export PURE_CC="gcc -fplugin=dragonegg"
  export PURE_CXX="g++ -fplugin=dragonegg"
  export PURE_FC="gfortran -fplugin=dragonegg"

(Please also check the README file included in the dragonegg package for
further installation and usage instructions. Also, examples/bitcode/Makefile
in the Pure distribution demonstrates how to use gcc+dragonegg as an external
compiler to generate LLVM bitcode from the command line.)


Installing From Development Sources
===================================

The latest development version of Pure is available in its Mercurial (Hg)
source code repository. You can browse the repository at:

http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/source/browse/

(You'll notice that the repository also contains various addon modules. See
the pure subdirectory for the latest sources of the Pure interpreter itself.)

Note that if you're going with the development sources, you'll also need
fairly recent versions of autoconf, flex and bison (autoconf 2.63, flex 2.5.31
and bison 2.3 should be ok).

To compile from the development sources, replace steps 4 and 5 above with:

**Step 4'.** Fetch the latest sources from the repository::

  $ hg clone http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/hg pure-lang

This clones the repository and puts it into the pure-lang subdirectory in the
current directory. (Project members please use https: instead of http: if
you're planning to push any changes back to the server.) This step needs to be
done only once; once you've cloned the repository, you can update it to the
latest revision at any time by running ``hg pull -u``.

**Step 5'.** Configure, build and install Pure.

This is pretty much the same as with the distribution tarball, except that you
need to run 'autoreconf' once to generate the configure script which isn't
included in the source repository. ::

  $ cd pure-lang/pure
  $ autoreconf
  $ ./configure --enable-release
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

(Don't forget to also run ``make check`` to make sure that the interpreter is
in good working condition.)

**Step 6'.** In addition, you can also build and install a recent snapshot of
the documentation from the repository.

You need to have a recent Sphinx version installed to do that; you can find
this at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/. Have a look at the Makefile in the
pure-lang/sphinx subdirectory or type ``make help`` there for instructions.

Alternatively, a ready-made recent snapshot of the documentation in html and
pdf formats is also available in its own repository, which can be cloned as
follows::

  $ hg clone http://docs.pure-lang.googlecode.com/hg pure-lang-docs


Other Build and Installation Options
====================================

The Pure configure script takes a few options which enable you to change the
installation path and control a number of other build options. Moreover, there
are some environment variables which also affect compilation and installation.

Use ``./configure --help`` to print a summary of the provided options.

Installation Path
-----------------

By default, the pure program, the runtime.h header file, the runtime library,
the pure.pc file and the library scripts are installed in /usr/local/bin,
/usr/local/include/pure, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/lib/pkg-config and
/usr/local/lib/pure, respectively. This can be changed by specifying the
desired installation prefix with the ``--prefix`` option, e.g.::

  $ ./configure --enable-release --prefix=/usr

In addition, the ``DESTDIR`` variable enables package maintainers to install
Pure into a special "staging" directory, so that installed files can be
packaged more easily. If set at installation time, ``DESTDIR`` will be used as
an additional prefix to all installation paths. For instance, the following
command will put all installed files into the tmp-root subdirectory of the
current directory::

  $ make install DESTDIR=tmp-root

Note that if you install Pure into a non-standard location, you may have to
set ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` or a similar variable so that the dynamic linker finds
the Pure runtime library, libpure.so. Also, when compiling and linking addon
modules you might have to set ``C_INCLUDE_PATH`` and ``LIBRARY_PATH`` (or
similar) so that the header and library of the runtime library is found. (This
will become unnecessary once all addon modules have been converted to use
pkg-config, see below, but this isn't the case right now.) On some systems
(notably, BSD) this is even necessary with the default prefix, because
/usr/local is not in the default search paths.

As of Pure 0.47, Pure also installs a pkg-config file which may be queried by
module Makefiles to determine how to build a module and link it against the
Pure runtime library; see `Pkg-config Support`_ below. This file will usually
be installed into ``$(prefix)/lib/pkg-config``. Again, if you use a
non-standard installation prefix, you will have to tell pkg-config about the
location of the file by adjusting the ``PKG_CONFIG_PATH`` environment variable
accordingly, see pkg-config(1) for details.

Tool Prefix and LLVM Version
----------------------------

On some systems the LLVM toolchain may be located in special directories not
on the ``PATH``, so that different LLVM installations can coexist on the same
system. This is often the case, e.g., if LLVM was installed from a binary
package.

To deal with this situation, the configure script distributed with Pure 0.55
and later allows you to specify the directory with the LLVM toolchain using
the ``--with-tool-prefix`` configure option. E.g.::

  $ ./configure --with-tool-prefix=/usr/lib/llvm-3.1/bin

This is also the directory where configure will first look for the
``llvm-config`` script, so that the proper LLVM version is selected for
compilation.

You can also specify the desired LLVM version with the ``--with-llvm-version``
option. This causes configure to look for the ``llvm-config-x.y`` script on
the ``PATH``, where ``x.y`` is the specified version number. If this option
isn't specified, the default is to look for the ``llvm-config`` script on the
``PATH`` (this should always work if you installed LLVM from source).

If none of these yield a usable ``llvm-config`` script, configure will try to
locate an ``llvm-config-x.y`` script by iterating through some recent LLVM
releases, preferring the latest version if found. If this fails, too,
configure gives up and prints an error message indicating that it couldn't
locate a suitable LLVM installation. This is a fatal error, so if you see this
then you'll either have to install LLVM yourself, or try to locate a suitable
LLVM installation and tell configure about it, using the options explained
above.

Versioned Installations
-----------------------

Beginning with version 0.4, Pure fully supports parallel installations of
different versions of the interpreter. As of Pure 0.21, to enable this you
have to specify ``--enable-versioned`` when running configure::

  $ ./configure --enable-release --enable-versioned

When this option is enabled, bin/pure, include/pure, lib/pure,
lib/pkg-config/pure.pc and man/man1/pure.1 are actually symbolic links to the
current version (bin/pure-x.y, include/pure-x.y etc., where x.y is the version
number). If you install a new version of the interpreter, the old version
remains available as pure-x.y.

Note that versioned and unversioned installations don't mix very well, it's
either one or the other. If you already have an unversioned install of Pure,
you must first remove it before switching to the versioned scheme.

It *is* possible, however, to have versioned and unversioned installations
under different installation prefixes. For instance, having an unversioned
install under /usr and several versioned installations under /usr/local is ok.

Separate Build Directory
------------------------

It is possible to build Pure in a separate directory, in order to keep your
source tree tidy and clean, or to build multiple versions of the interpreter
with different compilation flags from the same source tree.

To these ends, just cd to the build directory and run configure and make
there, e.g. (this assumes that you start from the source directory)::

  $ mkdir BUILD
  $ cd BUILD
  $ ../configure --enable-release
  $ make

Compiler and Linker Options
---------------------------

There are a number of environment variables you can set on the configure
command line if you need special compiler or linker options:

- ``CPPFLAGS``: preprocessor options (``-I``, ``-D``, etc.)
- ``CXXFLAGS``: C++ compilation options (``-g``, ``-O``, etc.)
- ``CFLAGS``:   C compilation options (``-g``, ``-O``, etc.)
- ``LDFLAGS``:  linker flags (``-s``, ``-L``, etc.)
- ``LIBS``:     additional objects and libraries (``-lfoo``, ``bar.o``, etc.)

(The ``CFLAGS`` variable is only used to build the pure_main.o module which is
linked into batch-compiled executables, see "Batch Compilation" in the manual
for details.)

For instance, the following configure command changes the default compilation
options to ``-g`` and adds /opt/include and /opt/lib to the include and
library search paths, respectively::

  $ ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/include CXXFLAGS=-g LDFLAGS=-L/opt/lib

More details on the build and installation process and other available targets
and options can be found in the Makefile.

Predefined Build Types
----------------------

For convenience, configure provides some options to set up ``CPPFLAGS`` and
``CXXFLAGS`` for various build types. Please note that most of these options
assume gcc right now, so if you use another compiler you'll probably have to
set up compilation flags manually by using the variables described in the
previous section instead.

The default build includes debugging information and additional runtime checks
which provide diagnostics useful for maintainers if anything is wrong with the
interpreter. It is also noticeably slower than the "release" build. If you
want to enjoy maximum performance, you should configure Pure for a release
build as follows::

  $ ./configure --enable-release

This disables all runtime checks and debugging information in the interpreter,
and uses a higher optimization level (``-O3``), making the interpreter go
substantially faster on most systems.

To get smaller executables with either the default or the release build, add
``LDFLAGS=-s`` to the configure command (gcc only, other compilers may provide
a similar flag or a separate command to strip compiled executables and
libraries).

You can also do a "debug" build as follows::

  $ ./configure --enable-debug

This is like the default build, but disables all optimizations, so compilation
is faster but the compiled interpreter is *much* slower than even the default
build. Hence this build is only recommended for debugging purposes.

You can combine all build types with the ``--enable-warnings`` option to
enable compiler warnings (``-Wall``)::

  $ ./configure --enable-release --enable-warnings

This option is useful to check the interpreter sources for questionable
constructs which might actually be bugs. However, for some older gcc versions
it spits out lots of bogus warnings, so it is not enabled by default.

In addition, there is an option to build a "monolithic" interpreter which is
linked statically instead of producing a separate runtime library::

  $ ./configure --enable-release --disable-shared

We strongly discourage from using this option, since it drastically increases
the size of the executable and thereby the memory footprint of the interpreter
if several interpreter processes are running simultaneously. It also makes it
impossible to use batch compilation and addon modules which require the
runtime library. We only provide this as a workaround for older LLVM versions
which cannot be linked into shared libraries on some systems.

In general, the build options can be combined freely with the variables
described in the previous section, but note that ``--enable-release`` and
``--enable-debug`` will always overwrite the value of ``CXXFLAGS``. If this is
a problem then it is best to just set up the required flags manually using the
variables described in the previous section.

Running Pure From The Source Directory
--------------------------------------

After your build is done, you should also run ``make check`` to verify that
your Pure interpreter works correctly. This can be done without installing the
software. In fact, there's no need to install the interpreter at all if you
just want to take it for a test drive, you can simply run it from the source
directory, if you set up the following environment variables (this assumes
that you built Pure in the source directory; when using a separate build
directory, you'll have to change the paths accordingly):

``LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.``
  This is required on Linux systems so that libpure.so is found. Other systems
  may require an analogous setting, or none at all.

``PURELIB=./lib``
  This is required on all systems so that the interpreter finds the prelude
  and other library scripts.

After that you should be able to run the Pure interpreter from the source
directory, by typing ``./pure``.

Other Targets
-------------

The Makefile supports the usual ``clean`` and ``distclean`` targets, and
``realclean`` will remove all files created by the maintainer, including test
logs and C++ source files generated from Flex and Bison grammars. (Only use
the latter if you know what you are doing, since it will remove files which
require special tools to be regenerated.)

Maintainers can roll distribution tarballs with ``make dist`` and ``make
distcheck`` (the latter is like ``make dist``, but also does a test build and
installation to verify that your tarball contains all needed bits and pieces).

Last but not least, if you modify configure.ac for some reason then you can
regenerate the configure script and config.h.in with ``make config``. This
needs autoconf, of course. (The distribution was prepared using autoconf
2.67.)

Pkg-config Support
------------------

Pure 0.47 and later install a pkg-config file (pure.pc) which lets addon
modules query the installed Pure for the information needed to build and
install a module. Besides the usual information provided by pkg-config, such
as ``--cflags`` and ``--libs`` (which are set up so that the Pure runtime
header and library will be found), pure.pc also defines a few additional
variables which can be queried with pkg-config's ``--variable`` option:

- ``DLL``: shared library extension for the host platform
- ``PIC``: position-independent code flag if required on the host platform
- ``shared``: flag used to create shared libraries on the host platform
- ``extraflags``: same as ``$shared $PIC``

Together with the ``libdir`` variable, this provides you with the information
needed to build and install most Pure modules without much ado. As of Pure
0.55, pure.pc also defines the ``tool_prefix`` variable which gives the LLVM
toolchain prefix specified at configure time, cf. `Tool Prefix and LLVM
Version`_.

If you want to use this information, you need to have pkg-config installed,
see http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org. This program should be readily
available on most Unix-like platforms, and a Windows version is available as
well. An example illustrating the use of pkg-config can be found in the
examples/hellomod directory in the sources.


System Notes
============

Pure is known to work on recent Linux, Mac OSX and BSD versions under x86,
x86-64 (AMD/Intel x86, 32 and 64 bit) and ppc (PowerPC), as well as on MS
Windows (AMD/Intel x86, 32 bit). There are a few known system-specific quirks
and corresponding workarounds which are discussed below.

All Platforms
-------------

Compiling the default and release versions using gcc with all warnings turned
on (``-Wall``) might give you the warning "dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules" at some point in util.cc with some gcc
versions. This is harmless and can be ignored.

If your Pure program runs out of stack space, the interpreter will segfault.
This is *not* a bug, it happens because runtime stack checks are disabled by
default for performance reasons. You can enable stack checks by setting the
``PURE_STACK`` environment variable accordingly; see the Pure manual for
details. The interpreter will then generate orderly "stack fault" exceptions
in case of a stack overflow.

32 Bit Systems
--------------

With LLVM 2.5 and earlier, the JIT is broken on x86-32 if it is built with
``--enable-pic``, so make sure you do *not* use this option when compiling
LLVM <=2.5 on 32 bit systems.

Some older LLVM 2.5 packages for Linux are broken on x86-32 for this reason
(this has been reported for Ubuntu 9.04 and Fedora Core 10), the symptom being
that the Pure interpreter fails a lot of checks and/or segfaults right at
startup. In that case you'll have to find a newer, corrected package or build
your own LLVM from source instead.

64 Bit Systems
--------------

64 bit systems are fully supported by Pure (as far as LLVM supports them).

With LLVM 2.5 and earlier, building the Pure runtime library (libpure)
requires that you configure LLVM with ``--enable-pic`` so that the static LLVM
libraries can be linked into the runtime library. With LLVM 2.6 and later,
this option isn't needed anymore.

PowerPC
-------

You'll need Pure >= 0.35 and LLVM >= 2.6. Also make sure that you always
configure LLVM with ``--disable-expensive-checks`` and Pure with
``--disable-fastcc``. With these settings Pure should work fine on ppc (tested
on ppc32 running Fedora Core 11 and 12), but note that tail call optimization
doesn't work on this platform right now because of LLVM limitations.

Linux
-----

Linux is the primary development platform for this software, and the sources
should build out of the box on all recent Linux distributions.

Michel Salim has kindly provided packages for all recent Fedora releases, see
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=9272

Alvaro Castro Castilla has contributed a Gentoo ebuild, which is currently
available at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231966. (This is rather
outdated, however, so you're probably better off building Pure from the latest
source.)

We're still looking for people who can maintain packages for other Linux
distributions (especially Debian/Ubuntu and openSUSE), please let us know if
you want to help with that.

Mac OSX
-------

Pure should build fine on recent OSX versions, and a port by Ryan Schmidt
exists in the MacPorts collection, see http://www.macports.org/. If you
install straight from the source, make sure that you use a recent LLVM version
(LLVM 2.7 or later should work fine on all flavours of Intel Macs). On
PowerPC, you might have to build Pure with ``--disable-fastcc``, see the
`PowerPC`_ section above.

Also note that with at least some versions of the Apple gcc compiler, with all
warnings turned on you may get the (bogus) warning "control reaches end of
non-void function" a couple of times in interpreter.cc. These are due to a bug
in older gcc versions (see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16558),
but they are harmless and can be ignored. These warnings should also go away
once Apple upgrades its SDK to a newer gcc version.

BSD
---

FreeBSD now offers a fairly extensive selection of Pure packages in their
distribution.

Compilation from source should also work fine on recent NetBSD and FreeBSD
versions if you use Pure 0.33 or later. Also make sure that you install a
recent port of LLVM which has the ``--enable-optimized`` flag enabled.

Building Pure requires GNU make, thus you will have to use gmake instead of
make. In addition to gmake, you'll need recent versions of the following
packages: perl5, flex, bison, gmp, mpfr and readline (or editline). Depending
on your system, you might also have to set up some compiler and linker paths.
E.g., the following does the trick on NetBSD::

  export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include:/usr/pkg/include
  export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/pkg/lib
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pkg/lib:/usr/local/lib

MS Windows
----------

Thanks to Jiri Spitz' perseverance, tireless testing and bug reports, the
sources compile and run fine on Windows, using the Mingw port of the GNU C++
compiler and the MSYS environment from http://www.mingw.org/. Just do the
usual ``./configure && make && make install``. You'll need LLVM, of course
(which builds with Mingw just fine), and a few additional libraries for which
headers and precompiled binaries are available from the Pure website
(http://pure-lang.googlecode.com).

However, the easiest way is to just go with the Pure MSI package available on
the Pure website. This includes all required libraries and some shortcuts to
run the Pure interpreter and read online documentation in html help format, as
well as "PurePad", an alternative GUI frontend for editing and running Pure
scripts on Windows.

After installing the MSI, you might also want to go to the LLVM website and
grab the LLVM toolchain for mingw32/x86. It is sufficient to install the "LLVM
binaries" package on your system to make the Pure batch compiler work. Just
unzip these into some convenient location on your harddrive and set up
``PATH`` so that it points to the llvm-x.y directory.
