These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of GNU Dico. See end of file for copying conditions. * Requirements If you have taken the sources from Git you will need the following packages to build Dico. I don't make any extra effort to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable version. - Automake - Autoconf - Bison - Flex - Gnulib - M4 - libtool - Texinfo * Submodules Dico uses the following projects as Git submodules: - Grecs - Gint - Imprimatur - Wit This will be pulled automatically by the bootstrapping process. * Bootstrapping Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out the project from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are extracted from other source packages: 1. Change to the source tree directory cd dico 2. Run ./bootstrap Use one or more --verbose options to see details about its progress. Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section INSTALLATION). For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'. * Debugging To debug dicod, use the following command: libtool --mode execute gdb dicod For debugging from Emacs run: M-x gdb RET gud-wrapper dicod RET (the script gud-wrapper is located in the ./utils subdirectory) * Adding new modules If you want to add a new module to Dico (e.g. named `foo'), run the following command from the Dico source tree topmost directory: ./bootstrap --add foo This will create the directory modules/foo, populate it with the necessary files, and add the appropriate statements to configure.ac and modules/Makefile.am files. After running this command, change to the modules/foo directory and start hacking on your new module. * Copyright information Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Sergey Poznyakoff Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: