Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.0 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.

7.1.1 SLIB installation

The following procedure works, e.g., with SLIB version 3a3 (see SLIB installation in The SLIB Portable Scheme Library):

1. Unpack SLIB and install it using make install from its directory. By default, this will install SLIB in /usr/local/lib/slib/. Running make install-info installs its documentation, by default under /usr/local/info/.
2. Define the SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

   $ SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/slib/
   $ export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
   

   Alternatively, you can create a symlink in the Guile directory to SLIB, e.g.:

   ln -s /usr/local/lib/slib /usr/local/share/guile/2.0/slib
   

3. Use Guile to create the catalog file, e.g.,:

   # guile
   guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
   guile> (require 'new-catalog)
   guile> (quit)
   

   The catalog data should now be in /usr/local/share/guile/2.0/slibcat.

   If instead you get an error such as:

   Unbound variable: scheme-implementation-type
   

   then a solution is to get a newer version of Guile, or to modify ice-9/slib.scm to use define-public for the offending variables.