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Once you have unpacked the NESL distribution, the following steps
should be sufficient to build a version of NESL to run on your local
workstation:
- Run make from the top-level NESL directory. This
builds CVL , VCODE, and xneslplot ,
leaving vinterp.serial and xneslplot in the bin
directory.
- Start a Common Lisp (either GNU, Allegro, CMU, or Lucid)
in the top-level NESL directory, and enter
(load "neslsrc/build.lisp").
- Follow the instructions for dumping an executable version
of NESL. This will create a file bin/runnesl, which can be
executed directly to start NESL.
- The simplest test of the system is to enter 1+1;, which
should exercise all the phases of the system as explained in
Section 2.2. For a more complete test, try
load "neslsrc/test"; followed by testall(0);,
which runs through a series of test functions.
The rest of this section discusses what can be changed if the above
procedure does not work or if you don't want to create a dumped NESL\
Lisp image. The next section discusses how to set up configurations for
remote execution.
Guy Blelloch
Tue Nov 28 18:37:09 EST 1995