To make and install GF (Updated for version 2.4). 1. Unpack GF and go to the source directory (the place where this INSTALL file is - so you have probably done this already!) tar xvfz GF-2.4.tgz cd GF-2.4/src 3. Make sure you have GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler), version 6.4 or later. In Windows, you also need Cygwin. ghc --version 4. If you are building the darcs version, run autoconf (in src/): autoconf 5. Run configure ./configure If you want to install the GF somewhere other than /usr/local, use the --prefix flag. E.g. ./configure --prefix=/usr To compile on Chalmers Solaris systems using VCS, use this configuration: ./configure CPPFLAGS="`lib__readline -I` `lib__ncurses -I`" LDFLAGS="`lib__readline -l` `lib__ncurses -l`" If you experience problems with readline, try: ./configure --with-readline=no You may need to run "make clean" after ./configure when you change the readline setting. 6. Compile with GNU make: make or gmake (if your system has a proprietary make) The binary is sent to the file GF/bin/gf . 7. Move files to their right places: make install 8. To run GF, the following environment variables must be set: GFHOME the GF directory, e.g., "$HOME/project/GF-2.4" GF_LIB_PATH the GF library directory, e.g,, "$HOME/project/GF-2.4/lib" (Usually, you do this in ~/.login, if your shell is any *csh, or in ~/.profile, if your shell is either of sh, ksh, zsh or bash. Afterwards, you have to start a login shell to have the settings available.) 9. For a quick test: Start gf, load a grammar and parse a string: cd $GFHOME/examples/tutorial/food gf FoodIta.gf FoodEng.gf -- when gf has started and shows the prompt >: > parse "this cheese is very very Italian" | tree_bank -- this is the response from GF: Is (This Cheese) (Very (Very Italian)) this cheese is very very Italian questo formaggio è molto molto italiano 10. If you want to run the Java GUI, go back to $GFHOME/src directory and also do make install-java Test the GUI with some grammars: cd ../examples/letter gf