[Aldor-l] Compiling setup

[Page, Bill]

On Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:39 PM PCR wrote:
> 
> I was trying a first problem in Aldor, and got this result.
> Mayhap I set things up wrong?  Thanks for any help.
> 
> pcr1 at Delta:~/aldor$ aldor -fx -laldor sieve.as
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fwritable-strings"
> #1 (Fatal Error) C compile failed.  Command was: unicl 
> -I/usr/local/aldor/linux/1.0.3/include -c sieve.c
> #1 (Warning) Removing file `sieve.c'
> 

You don't say what computer and version of operating
system you are using (you should in any error report or
request for help), but the problem seems to be that you
are using a version of the gcc C compiler that is "too new".

The -fx option tells Aldor to compile a native C runtime
program but the curent version of the Aldor compiler
generated intermediate C code that will only work with
a C compiler that supports "writable strings". Newer
versions of C (since gcc 4.0) do not support modification
of string constants.

You can revert to an earlier version of C.

It is also possible to get around this limitation by
compiling to intermediate lisp and then using a lisp
compiler such as GCL that works with the newer C compilers.

Regards,
Bill Page.