Installing the Nice compiler
Select your system:
Nice can be installed inside the
eclipse development platform.
Download the
plugin zip file, and unzip it inside the plugins
sub-directory of your eclipse directory.
The Nice plugin works for versions 2.1 and 3.0 of eclipse, and it includes
the Nice compiler, so you don't need to install it separately.
Nice is in the Debian archive, so you can
simply apt-get install nice.
Alternatively, you can download the
Debian package from this site
and install it with dpkg -i nice_*.deb.
Redhat or Mandrake Linux (rpm)
Simply download the RPM package
and install it with rpm -i Nice_*.rpm.
Download the Nice.tar.gz file and
save it as /tmp/Nice.tar.gz.
- System installation (if you are root)
Uncompress the archive:
cd /usr/local
tar zxf /tmp/Nice.tar.gz
- User installation
Uncompress the archive in your home directory:
cd
tar zxf /tmp/Nice.tar.gz
The Nice tools are placed in the bin subdirectory.
It is be a good idea to include it in your PATH.
That's it! Nice automatically recognizes where it is installed.
If you use Emacs, you should also
install the Nice mode.
There are no specific instructions for other operating systems.
However Nice can be used on any system that works with Java.
If you are in this situation, please
contact me
to share your experience and augment the documentation.
it is also possible to
download the source code of Nice,
together with a bootstrap compiler.
Compilation is done by simply typing make.
There is an Emacs mode
for Nice which makes Emacs the editor of choice for Nice programs!
To enable it, place this in your .emacs file:
;; Nice mode
;; If you installed Nice in your home directory,
;; then remove the leading ; in the next line
;(setq load-path (cons "~/share/emacs/site-lisp/nice" load-path))
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("\\.nice$" . nice-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'nice-mode "nice-mode"
"Major mode for editing Nice programs." t)
The first line is there to ensure that the nice-mode.el file
is in your Emacs load-path.
You may also do that by moving the file to some standard directory.
Or you may have to replace ~ by /usr
or /usr/local depending on where you installed Nice.
The Nice mode will then be loaded automatically when you open
.nice files.
Type C-h m for the documentation of the mode.
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