MPS compilation (was Re: MPS: native comp)

[Andrea Corallo]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  Helmut Eller
>>>>  <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:54:50 +0200
>>>> 
>>>> Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > PS last week I failed compiling MPS :/ I hope I can retry in the future
>>>> > and have a look.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe Helmut could help you? He's on Debian.
>>>
>>> FTR, I've built MPS on Trisquel GNU/Linux with no trouble at all.
>>> There's a ready makefile in the tarball, you just need to run it.
>>>
>>> MPS doesn't use Autoconf (well, it does, but not the way we are used
>>> to).  Instead, for every platform it supports OOTB it has a makefile
>>> ready to run.
>>
>> Okay thanks for the info, I tried ./configure + make on the repo
>> checking out the latest release but this failed on my machine.  Also I
>> was puzzled there are instruction to build it using only the compiler
>> like 'cd code && cc -O2 -c mps.c' (but I wanted have it installed as
>> well).
>
> Not sure this is helpful, because I'm on macOS.
>
> I used ./configure --prefix=... in the repo as well, but needed a fix
> that I posted as an issue to the project. It was something with an
> unused variable that lead to an error because of -Werror.

Ah! I believe was my same error whane I used configure + make 😀 Do you
have a link to the issue on github?

Thx

  Andrea