Re: Problems compiling gforth-0.7.9

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From: Bernd Paysan <[email protected]>
To: gforth-mXXj517/[email protected]
Cc: Tomas Sobota <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling gforth-0.7.9
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:05:52 +0200
Message-ID: <5840863.vqk35OSZvh@wukong>
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Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2025, 13:39:08 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Sommerzeit sc=
hrieb=20
Tomas Sobota:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to learn Forth. It seems to me that a reasonable option is
> to use gforth. Since the gforth package for my O.S. (Linux Mint 22.2)
> is old, I downloaded the latest available version of gforth (0.7.9)
> and attempted to compile it.
> But I receive a warning saying that I need a swig for forth. I have
> swig, but it has no -forth option. What is more, in the swig site
> there is no mention of forth at all among the available languages.
> So my question is: do I really need swig for forth to compile and use
> gforth? If so, where can I get it?

The install-swig.sh script in Gforth shows how to get it =E2=80=94 just run=
 it.  It's=20
Gerald Wodni's swig fork, and it will install itself as swig-forth, so no=20
conflict with the system-provided swig.

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Bernd Paysan
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