[gambit-list] Gambit on the OLPC
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Jan 13 20:23:21 EST 2008
Super cool! I don't know how software is distributed on the OLPC, but
if you do build a package let me know and I will put it up on the
Gambit web site so that all OLPC users can easily get to it.
Marc
On 12-Jan-08, at 11:58 PM, Jeff Read wrote:
> Here's how I got gambit working on the OLPC.
>
> As root:
> yum install gcc
> yum install glibc-headers
> yum install make
>
> As user olpc (the user account on the machine):
> curl -O http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.1/source/gambc-v4_1_2.tgz
> tar xvzf gambc-v4_1_2.tgz
> cd gambc-v4_1_2
> ./configure --prefix=/home/olpc/local/Gambit-C
> make
> make install
>
> It really is that simple. This gets you a working Gambit binary that
> will run from inside the Terminal activity. It's not yet its own
> activity, and so will not run from the Sugar user interface; I think
> it's a noble goal to rectify that situation.
>
> The Gambit compiler is not terribly useful, of course, without a C
> compiler, which the stock XO lacks, which presents problems of its own
> when bundling Gambit as an activity.
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