2  Installation

The latest version of Common-Scheme is available from

http://synthcode.com/scheme/common-scheme/

The current distribution supports the Chicken, Gambit, Gauche, Guile and SISC Scheme implementations. Simply typing ``make && make install'' will detect and install Common-Scheme for each of these implementations you have installed on your system. You can then run ``make tools && make install-tools'' to install the optional common-scheme program. If for whatever reason you want to undo this, ``make uninstall'' will remove all installed files.

Required versions:

• Chicken >= 2.0, with the syntax-case module installed.

• Gambit >= 4beta14. Currently only supports a single namespace.

• Gauche >= 0.8.4. Currently installs a patch which just adds Common-Scheme to the list of supported extensions in SRFI-0.

• Guile >= 1.7.2, available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/. It's a small macro, so you could also patch it into boot-9.scm for 1.6, and probably earlier versions.

• SISC >= 1.11.2. This installs the file common-scheme.jar in your $SISC_HOME, so you need to add this to your $CLASSPATH. You may override the installation directory by setting the environment variable $SISC_INSTALL_DIR before running make.

For other implementations, see section 5.