Currently, the WaveScript/Wavescope compiler implementation has been ported to a brand new version of Scheme, R6RS. R6RS is still bleeding edge, and this introduces some wrinkles in the build process. What follows are temporary instructions (as of June 2008) for building the system. The new R6RS port should enable much greater inter-scheme compatibility, but these build instructions will focus on running the system with a combination of PLT Scheme and Ikarus Scheme.

• (1) First, acquire the wavescript source. This website, start has nightly snapshots.

Because it's under very active development, the standard procedure is to look here to find out what was the most recent revision that passed all system tests:

http://regiment.us/regression

There's also a link to the manual.

• (2) Check out the development version of ikarus scheme from source (using bzr) and build it. As of this writing the binary release (0.0.3) is too old. Instructions for building ikarus are here:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/

After ikarus is installed you should be able to run it like this:

[joe@computer ~/demos]  $ ikarus
Ikarus Scheme version 0.0.3+ (revision 1477, build 2008-05-16)
Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Abdulaziz Ghuloum
>

• (3) Install a recentish version of PLT scheme (>370) for the parser.

• (4) Now try building Wavescript. Assuming it was unpacked into ~/wavescript, try the following.

cd ~/wavescript
source install_environment_vars
cd src
make

After that you should be able to run demos in the ~/wavescript/demos/wavescope directory using “ws”, or compile them using “wsc2”. Note that install_environment_vars is quite simple. Basically, REGIMENTD needs to point to ~/wavescript, and ~/wavescript/bin needs to be added to your path. You can do this from your .bashrc (for example) to save time.

• (5) (Optional) Compiling for TinyOS:

cd ~/wavescript/demos/wavescope
wstiny demo2b_iterateState.ws

This will compile one of the demos for tinyOS. Using wstiny is described in the manual here:

http://regiment.us/wsman/manual.html#SECTION00229000000000000000

Good luck and let me know how it goes!

-Ryan