Patch: Instructions for Installing Open Dylan 2014.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.2

Submitted for your approval, the process of installing OD 2014.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04.2)  Could be used as the basis for supplementary notes for Linux.


(Use by: 4/2016 for maximum freshness.)


Thank you,

--Patch Pony

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[Started at 19:29PM 7/17/2015]

# Booted Ubuntu 14.04.2 Live
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.16.0-30-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 15 17:43:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# Installed emacs24
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
emacs24 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24-common-non-dfsg
emacsen-common imagemagick-common libfftw3-double3 libgif4 liblqr-1-0
libm17n-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickwand5 libotf0 m17n-contrib m17n-db
...

# Untarred Open Dylan 2014.1
sudo tar xvjf /media/ubuntu/4684-F62A/opendylan-2014.1-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
...

# Installed libgc-dev
sudo apt-get install libgc-dev
...

# Setup environment variables
ubuntu@ubuntu:/opt/opendylan-2014.1$ export PATH=/opt/opendylan-2014.1/bin:$PATH    # for bash

# Read
# https://opendylan.org/documentation/getting-started-ide/console.html#dylan-interactor-mode-for-emacs-dime

# Downloaded dylan-mode package from: https://github.com/dylan-lang/dylan-mode [Download ZIP]
# Uzipped, renamed, and moved
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ unzip dylan-mode-master.zip 
Archive:  dylan-mode-master.zip
...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ mv dylan-mode-master dylan-mode
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo mv dylan-mode /opt/opendylan-2014.1/

# Created the hello-world app
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mkdir OD
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd OD
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ export PATH=/opt/opendylan-2014.1/bin:$PATH
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ make-dylan-app hello-world
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ cd hello-world
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/hello-world$ dylan-compiler -build hello-world.lid
...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/hello-world$ _build/bin/hello-world
Hello, world!

# Created a source registry
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ mkdir -p src/registry/generic
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ mv hello-world/ src
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ echo abstract://dylan/hello-world/hello-world.lid > src/registry/generic/hello-world
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD$ export OPEN_DYLAN_USER_REGISTRIES=`pwd`/src/registry

# Edited the ~ubuntu/.emacs file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/opt/opendylan-2014.1/dylan-mode")
(setq inferior-dylan-program "/opt/opendylan-2014.1/bin/dswank")
(require 'dime)
(dime-setup '(dime-dylan dime-repl))
(setenv "OPEN_DYLAN_USER_REGISTRIES" "/home/ubuntu/OD/src/registry")

# Setup a dime-test app
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/src$ export PATH=/opt/opendylan-2014.1/bin:$PATH
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/src$ echo abstract://dylan/dime-test/dime-test.lid > registry/generic/dime-test
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/src$ make-dylan-app dime-test
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/src$ cd dime-test/
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/OD/src/dime-test$ emacs dime-test.dylan

# Key bindings don't seem to be working in the source buffer (C-c M-p, for example)
# Possible GC problem (look in *dylan-inferior* buffer for message)

[Ended 21:13 7/17/2015]
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