You goal in this section is to successfully compile, with minimal
collateral damage, the assembler executable 'glas' (or 'glas.exe').

1) You'll need an OCaml development environment, probably v3.00 or
higher.  Get it from http://caml.inria.fr.  There are prebuilt
binaries and sources available.  Install it.

2)  Unpack the tarball in a directory of your choice:

$ gzip -d glas-0.1.tar.gz | tar xf -

3) Assuming you are in the top level directory, go to the src
subdirectory

$ cd src

4a) Now you have a choice: If you are on Unix, have GNU Make, and/or
are feeling adventurous, then you can use the normal make file
'Makefile' thus:

$ make bc

to create a byte code executable, or

$ make nc

to create a native code optimised executable.  (Note that your system
might not be supported by the native code compiler of OCaml.)

This invokes Markus Mottl's excellent, if scary, OcamlMakefile build
environment to create the executable 'glas'.

4b) If that didn't work for you, there is an alternate make file,
'Makefile.alt' you can use.  If your make supports the -f flag to
choose the name of the make file to process, do

$ make -f Makefile.alt bc

or

$ make -f Makefile.alt nc

to create a byte code or native code executable 'glas'.  (Again, your
OCaml system might not support native code compilation.)

5) Move the executable just created into your search patch, or add
src/ to your search patch.  At this point if all went well, you could
try out the assembler on the examples in the eg/ directory.

6) If you manage to compile it, and your machine/OS isn't listed in
the README please let me know.  If there were any modifications you
needed to do, please send me those as well.  Thanks.


Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi>		3rd Nov 2001