Re: [Axiom-developer] AldorForAxiom

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Thank you, Bill.

Now I've got runtime.o. Step 9 took about half an hour on a 1.6 GHz 
Centrino Laptop with 512 MB ;-).

But I still wonder why all these .o files are needed for the execution 
inside Axiom. I could understand .ao files, but .o files?

Interestingly, when I say ")co fact.as" Axiom prints:

   Compiling AXIOM source code from file /home/hemmecke/fact.as using
      AXIOM-XL compiler and options
-O -Fasy -Fao -Flsp -laxiom -Mno-AXL_W_WillObsolete -DAxiom -Y 
$AXIOM/algebra
      Use the system command )set compiler args to change these
      options.

And if I then look into my directory I see.

>ls fact*
fact.ao  fact.as  fact.asy  fact.fn  fact.lsp  fact.o

Where did the .o file come from? So ")co fact.as" is not the same as 
calling "aldor ABOVE_COMPILER_OPTIONS fact.as". Where should I look to 
make ")compile" more transparent to me.

And someone tell what happens when I execute "fact 4" in Axiom after 
compiling ")co fact.as"? I always believed that Axiom executes LISP 
code. So why is there any need for a .o file?

Or are all these .o files just there so that I can produce standalone 
programs that run without AXIOM? That should in priciple be possible 
once I have libaxiom.al, I just haven't tried it yet.

Ralf

On 03/15/2006 07:14 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> On March 15, 2006 12:31 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > I can compile the file fact.as given on the above website,
> > but when I type
> >
> > (1) -> fact 4
> >
> > I get the message
> >
> >     >> System error:
> >     Cannot open the file 
> > /home/hemmecke/OTHER/Axiom/axiom--main--1/mnt/linux/aldor/lib/
> > runtime.o.