I see, a forked version of swig. Thanks for making me aware of that :-) I downloaded and installed this version of swig and also a more recent (20180531) snapshot of gforth and now everything compiles fine.
Thanks again for your help Tom On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Dennis Ruffer <daruf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was able to get the latest GIT version (0.7.9_20180524) compiled on 2 > Ubuntu machines this last week and last March Bernd pointed me to the > following for the “forth-enabled” swig: https://github.com/ > GeraldWodni/swig > > > > DaR > > > > *From: *Tomas Sobota <t...@sobota.net> > *Sent: *Sunday, June 3, 2018 7:27 AM > *To: *gforth@gnu.org > *Subject: *[gforth] cannot compile last 0.7.9 snapshot > > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to compile the last snapshot of gforth (0.7.9_20180517) on my > equipment (Linux Mint, 64 bits). > > All seems to go well until at one point the configure script complains > that I don't have a forth-enabled swig. So I downloaded the current version > of swig (3.0.12) and installed it. I could not find any forth related > option in swig but installed it anyway. > > However gforth configure keeps complaining. > > So my question is: how do I configure swig for gforth? I could not find > anything about this in the net. > > Thanks > > Tom > > >