This chapter covers:
The preferred way to distribute GNU software is distribution of the source code. However it is nontrivial to compile GNU Pascal on non-UNIX systems, so we also provide ready-to-run binaries for the following platforms:
To install a binary distribution, cd to the main directory and unpack the archive while preserving the stored directory structure. In concrete, to install a ZIP archive under DOS with PKunzip, type
C:\> pkunzip -d archive
where archive is the name of the distribution file. To install a TGZ archive under Linux, become root, then extract the archive from the root of the filesystem:
# tar xzf archive.tar.gz
Binary distributions include `libgcc.a' and `specs', files that are normally part of gcc. If you have gcc installed, they will be replaced unless you manually install the archive.
Compilation instructions for the different platforms and more about the extenders mentioned above follow.