Getting a copy
Myrddin runs on amd64 versions of Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, and 9front, with more ports warmly welcomed.
The easiest way to get an up to date copy of Myrddin is to install it from git. The language is still changing rapidly, and releases simply haven't made much sense to date (although it's actually getting there!)
To start off, download the dependencies. If you're on a Debian derivative, this should be sufficient:
sudo apt-get install bison gcc git make
Then, get the compiler:
git clone git://git.eigenstate.org/git/ori/mc.git
Building and installing it matches the traditional ./configure; make; make install dance:
cd mc # the directory you cloned into
You then run ./configure, as usual. I generally configure with
--prefix=$HOME/bin, instead of the default /usr/local. If you chose a
nonstandard prefix, make sure that $prefix/bin is in $PATH, or the binaries
will not be found when you try to run commands.
./configure # probe the OS
make # build it
At this point, it would be good to make sure that the build you have works:
make check
This should succeed. Assuming that's the case, you can install.
make install
Optional: Editor Support
Shipped with Myrddin, but not installed by default, is autoindent and syntax
highlighting support for Myrddin for vim. To set this up, copy the files
into your ~/.vim directory. From within the git checkout:
mkdir ~/.vim # if it doesn't already exist
cp -r support/vim/* ~/.vim
If you happen to like Howl, Ryan Gonzalez has contributed support for it, and it's available here: https://github.com/kirbyfan64/howl-myr. To install, follow the directions listed:
mkdir -p ~/.howl/bundles
cd ~/.howl/bundles
git clone https://github.com/kirbyfan64/howl-myr.git
Optional: Ctags Support
There's also a patched version of exuberant-ctags which can be used for indexing Myrddin code, available here: https://github.com/oridb/ctags-myr.git. This code can be built and installed with the following sequence of commands:
sudo apt-get build-dep exuberant-ctags
git clone https://github.com/oridb/ctags-myr.git
cd ctags-myr/
aclocal
automake
autoreconf
./configure
make
sudo make install