SPLAT documentation - chapter 2
Installing and loading the software


2.1 Installation

There are two steps to installing SPLAT: installing the RScheme compiler (with our local patches for multithreaded non-blocking IO) and installing the SPLAT code. If you are using Debian Linux on an Intel-based platform, the easiest way to install RScheme is from the rscheme-threaded_0.7.1-4_i386.deb package file found on the SPLAT distribution page. This is as simple as running the following command as root:

# dpkg --install rscheme-threaded_0.7.1-4_i386.deb
If you are not running Debian Linux, these instructions will be almost incomprehensible until I can clean them up. The best thing to do is to fetch the Debian source package for our patched RScheme, along with the plain upstream source for RScheme, and use these to build a patched RScheme binary. Unfortunately, building RScheme requires an already-installed RScheme. So you should first unpack, build, and install the vanilla RScheme from the source package according to its instructions. Also unfortunately, unpacking Debian source archives requires some Debian-specific tools. After that is done, unpack the Debian source archive and perform the build as follows. You will end up with the Debian binary packages (and a lot less free disk space!) in addition to an install tree of the new, built RScheme in a subdirectory of the main build directory.

# dpkg-source -x rscheme_0.7.1-4.dsc
# cd rscheme-threaded_0.7.1-4
# ./debian.rules build-threaded

Now just copy the binaries to their destination directory.


2.2 Loading

The SPLAT sources are currently configured to be loaded from the current directory of the RScheme process. Run RScheme (as rst, which loads the threading support files automatically) and load the file splat-loader.scm.

$ rst
RScheme (v0.7.1, 97.04.03)
Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Donovan Kolbly <d.kolbly@rosette.com>
RScheme comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Launching threaded repl...
Initializing event manager
top[0]=>(load "splat-loader.scm")
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;  SPLAT: a Simple Provisional Language for Actions and Tasks
;;;  Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu>
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;;;  loading splat-syntax.scm
Compiling loop `loop' with full semantics (non-tail)
Compiling loop `G#0' with full semantics (non-tail)
Compiling loop `G#1' with full semantics (non-tail)
Compiling loop `G#2' with full semantics (non-tail)
;;;  loading splat-fluent.scm
Compiling loop `G#3' with full semantics (non-tail)
;;;  loading splat.scm
Compiling loop `G#4' with full semantics (non-tail)
Compiling loop `G#5' with full semantics (non-tail)
;;;  loading splat-trivia.scm
Compiling loop `G#6' with full semantics (non-tail)
;;;  loading splat-thread.scm
Compiling loop `G#7' with full semantics (non-tail)
Compiling loop `loop' with full semantics (non-tail)
;;;  loading splat-behav.scm
value := #t
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SPLAT documentation - Copyright ©1996-1997 Bill Gribble.
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2 September 1997
Bill Gribble grib@cs.utexas.edu