Pyston currently only supports installing from source; the following instructions have fairly tested as working on Ubuntu, and are extensively verified as not working on Mac. (Please see issue #165 for discussion on enabling OSX support, which is pretty difficult.)
The build instructions assume that you will put the Pyston source code in `~/pyston` and put the dependencies in `~/pyston_deps`. Barring any bugs, you should be free to put them anywhere you'd like, though the instructions in this file would have to be altered before following. Also, if you want to change the dependency dir, you'll have to change the value of the the `DEPS_DIR` variable in `src/Makefile`.
The build instructions assume that you will put the Pyston source code in `~/pyston` and put the dependencies in `~/pyston_deps`. Barring any bugs, you should be free to put them anywhere you'd like, though the instructions in this file would have to be altered before following. Also, if you want to change the dependency dir, you'll have to change the value of the the `DEPS_DIR` variable in `Makefile`.
### Prerequisites
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LLVM and clang depend on a pretty modern compiler; the steps below assume you installed GCC 4.8.2 as described above. It should be possible to build using clang >= 3.1, such as what you might find on a Mac, but that will require changes to the way LLVM is configured (specified in src/Makefile) that I haven't tested.
LLVM and clang depend on a pretty modern compiler; the steps below assume you installed GCC 4.8.2 as described above. It should be possible to build using clang >= 3.1, such as what you might find on a Mac, but that will require changes to the way LLVM is configured (specified in Makefile) that I haven't tested.
At this point you should be able to run `make check` (in the `~/pyston` directory) and pass the tests.
# Optional dependencies
There are a number of optional dependencies that the build system knows about, but aren't strictly necessary for building and running Pyston. Most of them are related to developing and debugging:
This will link pyston_dbg and pyston_debug against the debug version of libunwind (the release pyston build will still link against the release libunwind); to enable debug output, set the UNW_DEBUG_LEVEL environment variable, ex to 13.