Hello Roger, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:11 AM Roger A. PURVES <[email protected]> wrote: > > to the experts on Guile: > > I am trying to get Sly working under Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and am > fairly ignorant of the command line. I did get Guile running. That is, > I can type "Guile" at the bash shell prompt and Gnu Guile 2.0.11 > comes up (and works fine). To get to SIy, I followed the instructions > (after installing wget on Mac OS X using brew(*)): > …………………………………………………………………………….. > wget https://files.dthompson.us/sly/sly-0.1.tar.gz > tar xf sly-0.1.tar.gz > cd sly-0.1 > ./configure > make > make install > ……………………………………………………………………………… > > given at the site > > https://dthompson.us/projects/sly.html > > but after issuing ./configure, I got the > response: > ………………………………………………………………………............ > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... build-aux/install-sh -c -d > checking for gawk... no > checking for mawk... no > checking for nawk... no > checking for awk... awk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking whether make supports nested variables... yes > checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes > checking for guile... /usr/local/bin/guile > checking for guile... (cached) /usr/local/bin/guile > checking for Guile version >= 2.0.11... 2.0.11 > checking for guild... /usr/local/bin/guild > checking for guile-config... /usr/local/bin/guile-config > checking if (sdl sdl) is available... no > configure: error: required guile module not found: (sdl sdl)
Sly depends on guile-sdl, so you must install that first and make sure that the modules are on Guile's search path. Please note that Sly is an abandoned project. I have been writing a more general purpose game programming library (*not* an engine) called Chickadee that is actively maintained, however. See: https://dthompson.us/projects/chickadee.html Hope this helps, - Dave
