BUILD.readme

BUILDING Picobat (Newer versions):
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Picobat switched from autotools to a more lightweight build system based
on gmake called femto (https://gitlab.com/darkbatcher/femto) which
eases greatly the compiling process. Of course, some libraries are
alwayseeded :

	- gcc, gmake etc.
	- GNU gettext
	- GNU libiconv

If you also want to enable START command support under non-windows platforms,
either mimeopen or xdg-open are required, the early being the most
recommended alternative.

Building Picobat is quite rapid, first configure the build using :

	$ make config

Then you can specify or discard some options using either `use-option`
or `no-option` targets.

	$ make use-option
	
Picobat currently provides 6 options :

	- libcu8 : Add native utf-8 support (disabled by default). Do not
	  use under *nix.
	- nls : Add translations (enabled by default).
	- cmdlycorrect : Be the most compatible to cmd as possible (disabled
	  by default).
	- w10-ansi : Use ansi escape sequences instead of native windows
	  api
	- console : Add visual console features like colours (enabled by
	  default). On some exotic systems (I'm thinking of NetBSD), the
	  terminal does not support such features, so this must be disabled.
	- modules : Add support for Picobat modules (enabled by default). Disabling
	  it might be required if your are building using all static files.
	- linenoise : (*Nix only) enables linenoise library that provide
      autocompletion and extended console input.

Once you have configured your options, just compile using :

	$ make all bin
	
This will compile Picobat and put the resulting installation inside bin/.