| 1 | Building and Installing Oils
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| 2 | ============================
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| 4 | Oils is a new Unix shell. This file describes how to configure, build, and
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| 5 | install it from source code.
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| 6 |
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| 7 | Quick Start
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| 8 | -----------
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| 10 | If you haven't already done so, extract the tarball:
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| 12 | tar -x --gz < oils-for-unix-0.23.0.tar.gz
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| 13 | cd oils-for-unix-0.23.0
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| 14 |
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| 15 | This is the traditional way to install it:
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| 17 | ./configure # completes very quickly
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| 18 | _build/oils.sh # 30-60 seconds
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| 19 | sudo ./install
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| 21 | You'll end up with an oils-for-unix binary and two symlinks:
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| 23 | /usr/local/bin/
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| 24 | oils-for-unix
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| 25 | osh -> oils-for-unix
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| 26 | ysh -> oils-for-unix
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| 27 |
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| 28 | This structure is similar to the busybox tool.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Smoke Test
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| 31 | ----------
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| 33 | OSH behaves like a POSIX shell:
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| 34 |
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| 35 | $ osh -c 'echo hi'
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| 36 | hi
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| 38 | The -n flag parses and prints a syntax tree for the 'configure' script:
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| 40 | osh -n configure
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| 41 |
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| 42 | YSH is a legacy-free shell, with structured data:
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| 44 | $ ysh -c 'echo hi'
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| 45 | hi
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| 47 | $ ysh -c 'json write ({x: 42})'
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| 48 | {
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| 49 | "x": 42
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| 50 | }
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| 51 |
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| 52 | More Documentation
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| 53 | ------------------
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| 54 |
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| 55 | Every release has a home page with links:
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| 56 |
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| 57 | https://oilshell.org/release/0.23.0/
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| 58 |
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| 59 | System Requirements
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| 60 | -------------------
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| 61 |
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| 62 | Oils is designed to have very few dependencies. You need:
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| 63 |
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| 64 | - A C++11 compiler
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| 65 | - with libc and libstdc++
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| 66 | - A POSIX shell to invoke _build/oils.sh
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| 67 |
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| 68 | Optional:
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| 70 | - GNU readline library, for interactive features
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| 71 | (https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html)
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| 72 |
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| 73 | Build deps on Debian-like distros, including Ubuntu:
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| 75 | sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev
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| 77 | Alpine Linux:
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| 79 | apk add libc-dev gcc readline-dev
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Oils has been tested on several Linux distros and OS X. It aims to run on any
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| 82 | POSIX system. If it doesn't, file a bug here:
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| 84 | https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues
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| 85 |
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| 86 | Non-root Install
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| 87 | ----------------
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| 88 |
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| 89 | You can run the binary in-place, e.g.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | $ _bin/cxx-opt-sh/osh -c 'echo hi'
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| 92 | hi
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| 93 |
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| 94 | Or you can install into ~/bin, with the man page at
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| 95 | ~/.local/share/man/man1/osh.1:
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| 96 |
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| 97 | ./configure --prefix ~ --datarootdir ~/.local/share
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| 98 | _build/oils.sh
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| 99 | ./install
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| 101 | This doesn't require root access, but it requires:
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| 103 | - ~/bin to be in your $PATH
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| 104 | - Pages under ~/.local/share/man to be found by 'man'. (See manpath or
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| 105 | $MANPATH.)
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| 106 |
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| 107 | NOTE: Out-of-tree builds are NOT currently supported, so you have to be in the
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| 108 | oils-for-unix-0.23.0 directory.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | Build Options
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| 111 | -------------
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| 113 | Show options with:
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| 114 |
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| 115 | ./configure --help
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| 116 |
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| 117 | Common flags:
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| 118 |
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| 119 | --prefix
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| 120 | --with-readline
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| 121 | --without-readline
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| 122 | --readline # the location
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| 124 | Links
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| 125 | -----
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| 126 |
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| 127 | - Notes on portability:
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| 128 | https://oilshell.org/release/0.23.0/doc/portability.html
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