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Source

HACKT is developed in portable ISO C++ (c++98, c++03, c++0x). 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
- 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.

Dependencies

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

lex or flex 2.5.4, 2.5.31 -- tokenizer, lexer generator
yacc or GNU bison 1.875+ -- parser generator, LR(1) or LALR(1)
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)
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

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.

Copy this package description file into your /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
$ fink index (requires root authentication)
$ 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.

ChangeLog: src/ChangeLog [640k]

Table cells are corresponding MD5 check sums.
date	tar-bzip2	tar-gzip
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!

CVS

The CVS repository can be accessed anonymously, read-only:

cvs -d :pserver:USER@csl.cornell.edu:/ufs/repository login cvs -d :pserver:USER@csl.cornell.edu:/ufs/repository checkout art++

where USER is anoncvs. When prompted for passphrase, enter anonymous.

Instructions for building from CVS

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 CVS, (see README.CVS):

GNU automake 1.9+
GNU autoconf 2.59+
GNU libtool 1.5.6+ (TODO: patch for libtool-2.x)

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