Building Rebol 3 cloned from repo for Gentoo Linux (x64)?

[mcctuxic]

Hi,

I literally discovered Rebol today and got instantly catched...is it finally THE language? :)

Since there are no current prebuild binaries for my platform available I have to build Rebol 3
manually....but I simply didn't understood with siskin (which I also downloaded)...

Is there any instructions available for a Linuxer which just encountered Rebol just hours before and knows
Makefiles and C/C++ as well as some others less known languages ... but ...

Cheers!

[Oldes]

Hi,
none of the available binaries in the release assets works?
What exact Gentoo Linux do you use?

Rebol building process depends on already available Rebol to do preprocessing of its sources.. for Posix systems it is possible to use pregenerated Bootstrap branch. You may see it used in this Docker example:

https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol-Docker?tab=readme-ov-file#bootstrap-rebol-for-red-hat-8-linux-distro

The example is for a Rebol script, but I think it is easy to read all necessary steps which must be done to build own bootstrap version and then use this rebol-stage0 version to make a proper build.

I'm currently on holiday with limited access to net, but if needed, I may prepare Gentoo build next week.

[Oldes]

Btw.. the Siskin Builder is just a customized Rebol with embedded script, which I use to simplify various compilation processes (not only for building Rebol)

[Oldes]

Also... I think that you can just do:

wget https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3/releases/download/3.21.0/rebol3-bulk-linux-x64.gz
gunzip rebol3-bulk-linux-x64.gz
chmod +x rebol3-bulk-linux-x64
./rebol3-bulk-linux-x64

[Oldes]

Here is a script to do the bootstrap build in a Gentoo image:
https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol-Docker/blob/master/gentoo/rebol-bootstrap-gentoo.r3

[mcctuxic]

Hi Olde,

first of all: THANKS A LOT :) for your instant and very helpful reply! REBOL v3.21.0 is running on my Gentoo box now! YEAH! :)

Yesterday I may have be kind of "blind"...I visited the release page and saw entries for MacOS, Windows, and BSD...and that's it
....and didn't recognized the "Show all 73 entries" button...sigh. Sorry....

Then I tried my best to get siskin to build REBOL for me...and failed (due to a massive lack of knowledge)...

This afternoon I will try to rebuild REBOL from its sources, just for the fun of it. :)

Why am writing "REBOL" instead of the more modern "Rebol"?
Because I am writing UNIX and FORTH also. ;)
I have become a fan of "old' programming languages recently
and this kind of writing reminds me of the industrial design of
computers like the DEC ones, which I really like... :)

Cheers!
Tuxic