Building SILK from CVS

This is an annotated script showing how to check SILK out of CVS. The example is for NT, but UNIX should be similar.

1. Set your CVSROOT to stout. Mine looks like:

   D:\>echo %CVSROOT%
   echo %CVSROOT%
   :ext:kanderso@stout.bbn.com:/nfs/amp/master
   

2. Check SILK out into a directory called silk.

   D:\>cvs checkout -d silk systems/silk
   cvs checkout -d silk systems/silk
   cvs server: Updating silk
   U silk/index.html
   cvs server: Updating silk/applet
   ...
   U silk/applet/Components.scm
   U silk/src/slib/wttree.scm
   U silk/src/slib/yasos.scm
   

3. Enter the silk directory

   D:\>cd silk
   cd silk
   

4. Build silk using bootstrap.bat or bootstrap.bash. The first argument is the directory where Java is, d:\tool\jdk1.2.2 here. The boostrap compiles enough of SILK to get it running. SILK then builds its own jar file. Ignore any deprecation warnings.

   D:\silk>build\bootstrap.bat d:\tool\jdk1.2.2
   build\bootstrap.bat d:\tool\jdk1.2.2
   
   D:\silk>rem Build scheme.jar 
   
   D:\silk>set JAVA_HOME=d:\tool\jdk1.2.2 
   
   D:\silk>mkdir classlib 
   
   D:\silk>mkdir jar 
   
   D:\silk>javac -classpath classlib -sourcepath src -d classlib src/silk/EmbeddedScheme.java src/silk/Generic.java src/silk/ProcedureMethod.java 
   
   D:\silk>java -classpath d:\tool\jdk1.2.2\lib\tools.jar;classlib -Dscheme.root=. silk.Scheme src/generic/load.scm build/update.scm build/really-update.scm 
   SILK version 3.0, 8/24/1999
   
   Loading primitives  in 391 ms.
   importing silk.Generic in 221 ms.
   importing java.lang.System in 120 ms.
   ...
   importing java.lang.Double in 70 ms.
   Recompiling package silk
   Compiling .\src\silk\SchemeVector.java
   Compiling .\src\silk\ExitException.java
   SILK version 3.0, 8/24/1999
   
   Loading primitives  in 2854 ms.
   importing silk.Generic in 120 ms.
   importing java.lang.System in 40 ms.
   ...
   importing java.util.Hashtable$Entry in 10 ms.
   Compiling .\src\silk\Coerce.java
   Recompiling package jlib
   Compiling .\src\jlib\ThreadClosure.java
   Compiling .\src\jlib\Java.java
   Compiling .\src\jlib\ExceptionHandler.java
   Compiling .\src\jlib\EventPanel.java
   ...
   Recompiling package elf
   Compiling .\src\elf\Listen.java
   Compiling .\src\elf\GCMonitor.java
   Rebuilding jar
   
   D:\silk>
   

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   Rebuilding SILK

   After a CVS update you can rebuild jar/scheme.jar using the boootstrap approach described above. Or, you can rebuild it from inside SILK:

   > (update-scheme)
   Recompiling package silk
   Compiling d:\silk\src\silk\InputPort.java
   Recompiling package jlib
   Recompiling package elf
   Rebuilding jar
   #t
   >