Step-by-step guide to setting up inform6-test (MacOS)

otistdog · March 15, 2021, 12:29am

(EDIT: This thread has been repurposed for MacOS discussion only. To avoid clutter, other threads will be started for other operating systems.)

Does anyone feel inclined to post a step-by-step guide (i.e. showing terminal commands) to setting up zarf’s inform6-test environment (see GitHub - erkyrath/inform6-test: Collection of unit tests for the Inform 6 library) in MacOS? The readme instructions assume a high degree of familiarity with compiling from source in a way that links several new and/or pre-installed libraries, which is a fair step up from the requirements of getting an I6 compiler running.

Reducing this barrier might promote progress on zarf’s very worthwhile initiative to create a test suite for Standard Library 6/11, which has been stalled for years.

zarf · March 15, 2021, 1:28am

Ooh, excellent question. To which I do not have a good answer right now!

That is true, and my fault for letting the interpreters sit around in their cobbled-together state for these past twenty years.

I will try to write out the step-by-steps for MacOS, given the current state of affairs.

zarf · March 17, 2021, 5:03am

This is what I’ve worked up:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/erkyrath/95a150b66d9212767ce4c487b8b77e03

SETUP.md

## Fetch everything

Download the the inform6-test repository and the various compiler and interpreter repositories.

	git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/inform6-test.git
	git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/remglk.git
	git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/glulxe.git
	git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/fizmo.git
	git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/fizmo.git
	git clone https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6

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You will need this config.mk file when compiling Fizmo-RemGlk:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/erkyrath/d41cf56d5216f2877f63f1641f6d20db

config.mk


CC = gcc
AR = ar
override CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra

# Since the "fizmo-all" metapackage will install all modules into a separate
# "build" directory -- in order not to install dev-files into the installation
# directory, but to keep the dev-files available for other modules which
# depend on these -- we need to tell pkg-config where to find these files.
PKG_CONFIG_PATH \

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otistdog · March 21, 2021, 11:00am

Two items for your attention regarding the current step-by-step instructions:

First: For Ubuntu, I needed to make a change to config.mk not covered by your instructions:

sed -i 's/^LIBGLKTERMW_NONPKG_LIBS.*remglk/& -lm/' config.mk   (adds missing -lm parameter)

Is this not required for building in MacOS?

Second: The current instructions at Step-by-step instructions for running the Inform 6 library test script on MacOS. · GitHub repeat one of the git clone instructions twice:

git clone https://github.com/erkyrath/fizmo.git

Thanks again for posting the instructions!

zarf · March 21, 2021, 5:42pm

Nope. The interpreter Makefiles contain LIBS = -lm, so I’m not sure why Linux needs it listed in the config.mk.

zarf · March 21, 2021, 5:59pm

(Fixed the extra line, thanks.)

zarf · March 22, 2021, 4:32am

Poked into the ncurses question and realized that my config.mk file was trying to link ncurses for no reason. (The app does not require it, not in this configuration.) So you can change these lines to

NCURSESW_NONPKG_CFLAGS =
NCURSESW_NONPKG_LIBS =

…and avoid ncurses entirely.