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authorDavid Thompson <dthompson@member.fsf.org>2013-09-04 19:14:19 -0400
committerDavid Thompson <dthompson@member.fsf.org>2013-09-04 19:14:19 -0400
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to 1080 degrees.
** REPL Driven Development
+
The read-eval-print-loop present in Guile allows you to develop
your game while it is running! This allows you to see in real time
what your changes do to the game without having to restart the
program every time.
- ** This section needs to be completed. **
+ Guile-2d uses a modified REPL server that is integrated with the
+ game loop. A REPL server is started when the game loop starts. To
+ connect to it, use the [[http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/][Geiser]] extension for GNU Emacs or telnet.
+
+ *Geiser*
+
+ #+BEGIN_SRC fundamental
+ M-x connect-to-guile
+ #+END_SRC
+
+ Use the default host and port settings.
+
+ *Telnet*
+
+ #+BEGIN_SRC sh
+ telnet localhost 37146
+ #+END_SRC
** Building
guile-2d uses the typical GNU build system. First run `autogen.sh`
@@ -237,6 +254,8 @@
sudo make install
#+END_SRC
+ See =INSTALL.org= for more detailed installation instructions.
+
** Running Examples
To run an example when guile-2d has been installed:
@@ -253,19 +272,16 @@
guile -L .. simple.scm
#+END_SRC
-** Dependencies
+** Platforms
- - GNU Guile >= 2.0 (>= 2.0.9 recommended)
- - [[https://gitorious.org/guile-figl/guile-figl][guile-figl]]
+ Guile-2d supports GNU/Linux currently. OS X support is in the
+ works, but there are problems with guile-sdl. See
+ https://github.com/davexunit/guile-2d/issues/2 for more details.
- No official release. guile-2d runs off of the latest master
- version.
-
- As of this writing, =make= will fail due to errors with building
- texinfo files. Currently there is an error on line 19152 of
- =doc/low-level-gl.texi=. To fix, join lines 19152 and 19153
- together.
+** Dependencies
+ - GNU Guile >= 2.0 (>= 2.0.9 recommended)
+ - [[https://gitorious.org/guile-figl/guile-figl][guile-figl]] (git master branch)
- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-sdl/index.html][guile-sdl]] >= 0.5.0
- SDL 1.2
- FreeImage >= 3.0