Provide information in README how to build

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Provide information in README how to build #186

Open fogti opened 6 months ago

fogti commented 6 months ago

Currently, it was a bit of a hassle to figure out how to build this project, from reading through

the GitHub actions workflows
scripts/buildga.sh
make2/make.txt

To end up with:

git clone https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
cd jsource
./make2/build_all.sh
./make2/cpbin.sh 
ln -s ../../profile.ijs ./bin/linux/*/

(the reason I was interested in this in the first place was https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2024/en/programm/beitrag/289)

bilam commented 6 months ago

Information should already be provided in overview.txt

fogti commented 6 months ago

interestingly, overview.txt is pretty hard to read for me, I didn't understand it at first. make2/make.txt and such are pretty clear in contrast. also, why is overview.txt separate from README.md when it is so short?

fogti commented 6 months ago

I encountered other problems by now... I needed to pass -z noexecstack (see also) to libj's ld command line to ensure that the stack gets marked non-executable, and I found out I don't know how the libjpcre2.* files get generated/linked...