This page discusses common problems (or non-problems) with the installation of Stratego on certain platforms.
Configuration without Prefix?
Stratego distributions 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 0.9.1 have the problem that building fails when configure is called without an explicit --prefix switch. This has been fixed in
StrategoXT 0.9.2. Workaround for older distributions: use the
--prefix switch to produce the right configuration.
ATerm Installation
I ran into a little trouble installing the most recent version of Stratego, and I've included the output which includes the error message.
This probably isn't terribly informative, but in case it's of any use, I thought I'd send it to you. I went ahead and installed an earlier
version instead and had no trouble doing so.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lATerm-gcc
This looks as if you didn't configure the
ATermLibrary with the
--with-all (or at least
--with-gcc) flag or did not install it or did not configure the stratego
installation with the right path to the aterm library. Please check whether libATerm-gcc.a is installed in ATerm prefix/lib.
Athlon
Stratego programs sometimes show random failure on Athlon machines. This appears to be due to a combination of faulty motherboards in combination with an old Linux kernel (before 2.4.16). It has nothing to do with the Stratego compiler. Source:
WesselDankers.
Mac OS X
Stratego 0.6 and later versions do not work on Mac OS X for the moment, since support for nested functions is currently broken in the rs6000 backend of gcc. It's apparently
being worked on.
See also
MacOS X Support.
[From here this page is out of date, but some items still apply. Needs refactoring --
MartinBravenboer - 03 Jul 2003]
Cygwin
It seems that the problems with installation on Windows with Cygwin were caused by the case-insensitiveness of Windows. This has been solved in
StrategoRelease071.
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EelcoVisser - 21 Jun 2002
Dit heeft waarschijnlijk te maken met de afhandeleing van newlines en cariage
returns. Jurgen heeft hier aan gewerkt. Het probleem is dat onder Cigwin files
standard in text mode geopend worden waardoor er een verkeerde translatie
plaatsvindt: \n => \r\n. Jurgen heeft dit gefixt volgens mij in een recentere
versie van de atermen door files altijd expliciet in binary mode te openen.
Misschien weet hij een workaround voor dit probleem anders moeten we maar
proberen over te stappen op versie 1.6.4 van de atermen. ---
MerijnDeJonge
The gist of the above: installation of the
ATermLibrary on Cygwin runs into
trouble with end of line treatment. This appears to be solved with later versions
of the library (starting at 1.6.4).
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EelcoVisser - 30 Nov 2001
Irix
Tried bootstrapping 0.6.3, using aterm 1.6.3 on irix-mips-6.5 just now.
I used the gcc-3.0.1 compiler, freshly compiled for the occasion.
To get aterm to build, I had to reduce CFLAGS_GCC from -O4 to -O2, lest
the gcc compiler crash on compilation of bafio.c
Building stratego got me this far:
gmake[3]: Entering directory
`/mnt/mldwork/work/karltrk/stratego-0.6.3/sc/spec/syn'
Makefile:408: no file name for `include'
/work/karltrk/apps/bin/sc -I ./../sig -i pack-stratego
### cannot find term Cons(...(2)) at 104d8b70 in hashtable at pos 45342,
header = 3880
This seems consistent with a bug in aterm, as I had a similar problem
before on linux.
Any ideas on how to take this further ? Is it a known problem, or should I
just break out the jolt cola and prepare for a long night debugging ?
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KarlTrygveKalleberg - 14 Dec 2001
The gcc people have been able to reproduce this bug with -O2 also, you
might have better luck turning off all optimisation. Eelco, have you
heard anything more regarding this bug? I got a mail a week or two ago
saying they had merge my bug report with yours.
I've had no luck compiling Stratego with gcc-3.0 on Irix, and compiling
with 2.95.x just hangs.
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OttoSkroveBagge - 14 Dec 2001
0.7beta2 on non-Intel platforms
Stratego 0.7beta2 doesn't work on some platforms at the moment. The bootstrapped compiler works correctly, except that the
s2c stage (the translation to abstract C code) generates corrupt output. This has been observed on
mips-*-linux and
sparc-sun-solaris2.6. Cause: unknown.
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EelcoDolstra - 26 Feb 2002
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