squirrel/COMPILE

Squirrel 3.1 stable
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What is in this distribution?

squirrel
    static library implementing the compiler and interpreter of the language

sqstdlib
    the standard utility libraries

sq
    stand alone interpreter

doc
    The manual

etc
    a minimalistic embedding sample

samples
    samples programs


HOW TO COMPILE
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CMAKE USERS
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If you want to build the shared libraries under Windows using Visual
Studio, you will have to use CMake version 3.4 or newer. If not, an
earlier version will suffice. For a traditional out-of-source build
under Linux, type something like

 $ mkdir build # Create temporary build directory
 $ cd build
 $ cmake .. # CMake will determine all the necessary information,
            # including the platform (32- vs. 64-bit)
 $ make
 $ make install
 $ cd ..; rm -r build

The default installation directory will be the top source directory,
i. e. the binaries will go into bin/ and the libraries into lib/. You
can change this behavior by calling CMake like this:

 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/path/on/your/system

With the INSTALL_BIN_DIR and INSTALL_LIB_DIR options, the directories
the binaries & libraries will go in (relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)
can be specified. For instance,

 $ cmake .. -DINSTALL_LIB_DIR=lib64

will install the libraries into a 'lib64' subdirectory in the top
source directory. If INSTALL_INC_DIR is set, the public header files
will be installed into the directory the value of INSTALL_INC_DIR
points to. There is no default directory - if you want only the
binaries and no headers, just don't specify INSTALL_INC_DIR, and no
header files will be installed.

Under Windows, it is probably easiest to use the CMake GUI interface,
although invoking CMake from the command line as explained above
should work as well.

GCC USERS
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There is a very simple makefile that compiles all libraries and exes
from the root of the project run 'make'

for 32 bits systems

 $ make

for 64 bits systems

 $ make sq64

VISUAL C++ USERS
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Open squirrel.dsw from the root project directory and build(dho!)

DOCUMENTATION GENERATION
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To be able to compile the documentation, make sure that you have Python
installed and the packages sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme. Browse into doc/
and use either the Makefile for GCC-based platforms or make.bat for
Windows platforms.