Developer hints/facts

Getting started

First off, you should read the architecture description.

Presuming you have a just-checked-out version from CVS. The first you need to do is run a few programs to make proper Makefiles.:

$ autoheader
$ automake -i
$ autoconf

Then we need to configure stuff in a suitable way for development, which can vary but for me is:

$ ./configure  --prefix=/home/stig/tmp --disable-shared --enable-javapart --with-cmucl=/usr/bin/lisp --with-javac=/usr/bin/jikes --with-dsssl-dir=/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/ --enable-cplusplus 

The --with-cmucl switch tells it to use CMU Common Lisp. See the Installation file for more info on specifying a certain image.

After you've run the configure-command you can try make. And all should build fine. You might also need to do a make install to get xml2esis, xml2sexp and various tools put in the right place.

Getting a test of the lisp code

Look at src/clisp/examples/generate.doc.sh and src/clisp/examples/sds-prefs.xml.

As explained in the Installation file the first run will take lots of time. But hopefully a directory Generated was created with temporary files and results.

Overview of the directory structure

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