- Version 0.1.0
- Riga, July 21, 2017
- Website: freeoberon.su
- Download Free Oberon source code from freeoberon.su in tar.gz format or from the GitHub repo. Note that the archive with the version for Windows is also suitable, because it contains the source code. Extract the archive to your home directory or to another location on the disk. (This tutorial will assume the files are extracted to the home directory.)
- Using terminal or in any other way, install the following packages:
- libsdl2-dev
- libsdl2-image-dev
- binutils
- gcc
- make
The names of the packages are given in accordance with their names in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. They are also suitable for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspbian and other. To install them, run the following command:
apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev binutils gcc make
(This command must be executed with superuser privileges, that is, you must first run su
and enter the password.)
On OS Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS and others, the command and package names will differ:
sudo yum install SDL2-devel SDL2_image-devel binutils gcc make (not tested!)
- Go to the
src
subdirectory and start the compilation:
cd ~/FreeOberon/src
make -f Makefile_linux
- (optional) Append the following line to the end of file
~/.bashrc
:
alias fo='cd ~/FreeOberon;./FreeOberon'
This will allow you to launch Free Oberon using the fo
command.
Download the setup porgram in EXE format from freeoberon.su, run it and follow the instructions.
Alternatively, you can download a ZIP-archive, extract it to any place on the disk and create a desktop shortcut.
Note. If you want to recompile Free Oberon under Windows from the source code yourself, refer to Appendix A of the Free Oberon documentation on freeoberon.su.
Run Free Oberon and type in an Oberon program (or open an example program Book.Mod
and press F9
to compile and run the program.
The module source codes are saved in subdirectory Programs
and the compiled executable files are saved in bin
. data/bin/compile.sh
and data\bin\compile.bat
are used to compile a program on GNU/Linux and Windows accordingly.