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K\u0026R is supported via the ANSI C compiler.\n\nPlatforms:\n\ncpm           produces i80 CP/M .COM files\nem22          produces EM22 bytecode files\nlinux386      produces ELF executables for PC Linux systems\nlinux68k      produces ELF executables for m68020 Linux systems\nlinuxmips     produces ELF executables for little-endian MIPS32r2 Linux systems\nlinuxppc      produces ELF executables for PowerPC Linux systems\nminix68k      produces Minix executables for m68000 Minix systems\nmsdos386      produces i386 MS-DOS 32-bit DPMI .EXE files\nmsdos86       produces i86 MS-DOS .COM files\nosx386        produces i386 OSX MachO executables\nosxppc        produces PowerPC OSX MachO executables\npc86          produces bootable floppy disk images for 8086 PCs\npdpv7         produces PDP/11 V7 Unix binaries\nrpi           produces Raspberry Pi GPU binaries\n\n\n\nINSTALLATION\n============\n\nThe version 5.0 build mechanism has been completely rewritten (twice).\nInstallation ought to be fairly straightforward. It will build on Unixishes\nincluding Linux, OSX, and Windows using MSYS2 and mingw32.\n\nRequirements:\n\n- an ANSI C compiler. This defaults to gcc. You can change this by setting\n  the CC make variable.\n\n- flex and yacc.\n\n- GNU make.\n\n- Lua (any version) with the lua-posix library installed.\n\n- Python 3.4 or above.\n\n- about 1GB in the target directory.\n\nInstructions:\n\n- edit the Makefile. There's a small section at the top where you can change\n  the configuration. Probably the only one you may want to edit is PREFIX,\n  which changes where the ACK installs to, and PLATS, which changes which\n  architectures are built. Look in `plat/*` to see what plats there are.\n\n- Run:\n\n    make\n\n  ...from the command line. This will do the build.\n\n  The make system is fully parallelisable by default, but does take a while\n  to start up.\n\n- Run:\n\n    sudo make install\n\n  ...from the command line. This will install the ACK in your PREFIX\n  directory (by default, /usr/local).\n\nThe ACK should now be ready to use.\n\n\n\nUSAGE\n=====\n\nCurrently I haven't sorted out all the documentation --- it's supplied in the\ndistribution, but not all of it gets installed yet --- so here is a quickstart\nguide.\n\nThe main command to use is 'ack'. This invokes the compiler and the linker.\nSome useful options include:\n\n  -m\u003cplatform\u003e     build for the specified platform\n  -o \u003cfile\u003e        specifies the output file\n  -c               produce a .o file\n  -c.s             produce a .s assembly file\n  -O               enable optimisation (optimisation levels go up to 6)\n  -ansi            compile ANSI C (when using the C compiler)\n  -v               be more verbose (repeatable)\n  \u003cfile\u003e           build file\n\nack figures out which language to use from the file extension:\n\n  .c               C (ANSI or K\u0026R)\n  .b               the PDP-11 dialect of B\n  .bas             Basic\n  .mod             Modula-2\n  .ocm             Occam 1\n  .p               Pascal\n  .o               object files\n  .s               assembly files\n  .e               ACK intermediate code assembly files\n\nFor further information, see the man page (which actually does get\ninstalled, but is rather out of date).\n\nThere are some (known working) example programs in the 'examples' directory.\nA sample command line is:\n\nack -mlinux386 -O examples/paranoia.c\n\n\n\nGOTCHAS\n=======\n\nThere are some things you should be aware of.\n\n- Look at plat/\u003cPLATFORMNAME\u003e/README for information about the supported\n  platforms.\n  \n- The library support is fairly limited; for C, it's at roughly the ANSI C\n  level, and for the other languages it's similar.\n  \n- When compiling languages other than C, the ACK will usually look at the\n  first character of the file. If it's a #, then the file will be run through\n  the C preprocessor anyway.\n\n- BSD systems may need to up the number of file descriptors (e.g.\n  'ulimit -n 200') before the ACK will compile.\n  \n- The ACK uses its own .o format. You won't be able to mix the ACK's object\n  files and another compiler's.\n\n- The distribution contains *everything*, including the weird, ancient,\n  archaic stuff that doesn't work any more and never will, such as the int EM\n  interpreter and the assembler-linkers. Only some of it builds. Look for\n  build.lua files.\n\n\n\nDISCLAIMER\n==========\n\nThe ACK is mature, well-tested software, but the environment in which it was\ndeveloped for and tested under is rather different from that available on\ntoday's machines. There will probably be little in the way of logical bugs,\nbut there may be many compilation and API bugs.\n\nIf you wish to use the ACK, *please* join the mailing list. We are interested\nin any reports of success and particularly, failure. If it does fail for you,\nwe would love to know why, in as much detail as possible. Bug fixes are even\nmore welcome.\n\nThe ACK is licensed under a BSD-like license. Please see the 'Copyright' file\nfor the full text.\n\nYou can find the mailing list on the project's web site:\n\n\thttp://tack.sourceforge.net/\n\t\nPlease enjoy.\n\nDavid Given (davidgiven on Github)\ndg@cowlark.com\n2025-04-17\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdavidgiven%2Fack","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdavidgiven%2Fack","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdavidgiven%2Fack/lists"}