[comp.lang.icon] Icon compiler

ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (03/22/91)

If you have troubles running the Icon compiler on your system, first
check the information in the READ.ME file in our FTP area for your
platform.  If, for example, you're running a different version of
the operating system and related software from the one on which the
object files of the compiler are based, you may have difficulties.

We can't hope to provide variants for different versions of software.
If you can't run our object distribution, please be patient -- we'll
have source code available later.

  Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  +1 602 621 6609   ralph@cs.arizona.edu  uunet!arizona!ralph

ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (03/30/91)

The Icon compiler is now available for five more UNIX platforms:

	Intel 386 running System V
	Macintosh running AU/X
	PS/2 running AIX
	UNIX PC (3B1)
	VAX-11 running Ultrix

To get a copy of the compiler, do an anonymous FTP to cs.arizona.edu,
cd /icon/v8/Compiler/Packages, and see what's there.  Documentation for
the compiler is in /icon/v8/Compiler/Docs.

Please check the READ.MEs for the specific implementations in Packages --
since the Icon compiler presently is distributed in object form, operating
system and related software must be compatible. For example, some sites
have been unable to run the Sun 4 implemenation of the Icon compiler because
they are using a version of the system software that is earlier than the
version needed by the Icon compiler.

If you are successful in getting the Icon compiler to run on a different
configuration than listed in a READ.ME, please let us know so that we
can add that information for other users.

  Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  +1 602 621 6609   ralph@cs.arizona.edu  uunet!arizona!ralph