Notes on compiling preForth on Fedora 40 (x86_64)

[cstrotm]

• Compiling preForth and SeedForth on Fedora 40 (x86_64)

• Installing devtools

  sudo dnf install gcc make git

• Installing "fasm" binary from homepage

• Installing i686 libraries

  sudo dnf install glibc-devel.i686 glibc-devel

• Adjust Makefile

   # assemble and link executable on linux
   %.Linux: %.asm
        fasm $< $@.o
        LDEMULATION=elf_i386 ld -melf_i386 -o $@ \
           -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 \
           /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/crti.o \
           $@.o \
           -lc /usr/lib/crtn.o

• Build preForth and seedForth

  make clean
  make
  ./seed

[znmeb]

I have Fedora 40 (Silverblue - can run any Linux in a container) - does this work there? I'm having trouble getting it to work with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

[cstrotm]

Fedora Silverblue is an immutable OS image system. You would need to use a toolbox container to install and run PreForth/SeedForth.

I can check with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS later today and report if I can get PreForth working there (should work)

[znmeb]

Yes, I know all about the immutable thing - that's why I picked it! I'm actually on Universal Blue Bluefix DX, which is a superset of Sliverblue. I have a Fedora 40 distrobox, a Rawhide distrobox, about three Ubuntu 24.04 distroboxes and an Arch distrobox at the moment. Plus Ubuntu 24.04 in Windows Subsystem for Linux. I'll try this tomorrow on Fedora and Arch.

[cstrotm]

I've added a new issue #18 on how to compile perForth and seedForth on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.