Polyglot Extensible Compiler Toolkit
                    ------------------------------------

Since you are reading this file, you have already downloaded and
unpacked the Polyglot distribution.  Your installation directory
contains the following sub-directories:

  - src: the complete source code of Polyglot
  - src/polyglot: the Polyglot base compiler and some simple extensions 
  - src/ppg: the Polyglot parser generator, an extension of Java CUP
  - src/java_cup: tweaked version of the Java CUP parser generator 0.10k.
  - doc: documentation about writing Polyglot extensions
  - doc/api: Javadoc descriptions of Polyglot classes

Disclaimer
----------

Polglot is research software.  Over time, some of the interfaces in the
framework may change.  This may require some extensions to be changed to
conform to the new interfaces.  Also, Polyglot is not well-documented; in
particular, some of the javadoc is missing or out-of-date.  We are working on
writing better documentation.  Watch the web page:

    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/polyglot

for further updates.  If you use Polyglot, we'd appreciate your letting
us know.  Send your comments and bug reports to Nate Nystrom at
nystrom@cs.cornell.edu.

Requirements
------------

Polyglot builds on Unix and on Windows using the Cygwin environment.  We
recommend that you use JDK 1.3 or later.  We have experienced problems
with versions of the JDK older than 1.3.  You must ensure that java and
javac are in your path.  Polyglot is compiled with the Ant build tool
(http://jakarta.apache.org/ant).  GNU make is used for compiling and
running test cases.  We are phasing out the use of make in favor of Ant.

Polyglot uses the JFlex scanner generator.  The JFlex jar file is
included in the Polyglot distribution.  Polyglot is distributed
under LGPL, but JFlex is distributed under GPL.  See the JFlex web
site at:

        http://www.jflex.de

for updates and the source code of JFlex.  The output of JFlex
inherits the copyright of the specification--licensed under LGPL
in Polyglot's case.  You may be able to substitute JLex
(http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/JLex/), but this
is untested.

Creating an extension
---------------------

To create your own extensions, see the file doc/Overview.txt.

Running Polyglot
----------------

Polyglot is compiled with the Ant build tool (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant).

1. Go to the root directory of the Polyglot installation (the directory this
README is in).  We'll call this directory $POLYGLOT from now on.

    $ cd $POLYGLOT

2. Run ant to build the shell script bin/jlc.

    $ ant bin

This need only be performed once.

3. Optionally: add $POLYGLOT/bin to your PATH environment variable. 

4. You are now ready to try out Polyglot.
To compile a language extension source file, do:

    $ jlc -ext <extname> <source-file>

For example:

    $ jlc -ext pao src/polyglot/ext/pao/tests/Test.pao

or equivalently:

    $ jlc -extclass polyglot.ext.pao.ExtensionInfo \
          src/polyglot/ext/pao/tests/Test.pao

The latter usage is convenient if the extension is not implemented as
a subpackage in the polyglot source tree.

To compile using the base compiler, just leave out the -ext option:

    $ jlc File.jl

This should produce a file called File.java that is almost identical to
File.jl.

Building Polyglot
-----------------

Follow these steps to build the base compiler and the installed extensions:

1. First ensure javac is in your path and that you are using JDK 1.3
or later.  Also ensure JFlex.jar is in your classpath or is in the lib
directory.

2. Change to the $POLYGLOT directory.

    $ cd $POLYGLOT

3. Run ant to build the base compiler.

    $ ant

Optionally, create some extensions:

    $ ant coffer pao
  
Class files will be placed in the $POLYGLOT/classes directory.
You may optionally, do:

    $ ant jar
    $ ant coffer-jar pao-jar

to create jar files in the lib directory for Polyglot and for each extension.

4. Update PATH and CLASSPATH.

Add $POLYGLOT/bin to your PATH environment variable.  Add
$POLYGLOT/classes (or $POLYGLOT/lib/polyglot.jar) and
$POLYGLOT/lib/java_cup.jar to your CLASSPATH.

5. You are now ready create your own extensions to Java.  See
doc/Overview.txt for instructions on building an extension.  See the
instructions earlier in this file for how to use the compiler.

Credits and Acknowledgments
---------------------------

The current Polyglot developers are:

        Nathaniel Nystrom

The Polyglot project group is supervised by Prof. Andrew Myers at the
Cornell University Computer Science Department.

Several other people have contributed to the development:

        Michael Brukman         Stephen Chong
        Michael Clarkson        Matt Harren            
        Aleksey Kliger          Jed Liu
        Naveen Sastry           Dan Spoonhower 
        Xin Qi                  Steve Zdancewic         
        Lantian Zheng

The Polyglot class file parsing code (src/polyglot/types/reflect)
is derived from the BLOAT bytecode optimizer written by Nathaniel
Nystrom, David Whitlock, and Antony Hosking at Purdue University.  See
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/s3/projects/bloat/.

The Base64 code (polyglot.util.Base64) is derived from public domain
code by Robert Harder <rob@iharder.net>.  See http://iharder.net/base64.

The following people have provided patches:

        Keunwoo Lee <klee@cs.washington.edu>
        Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu>
        Ondrej Lhotak <olhotak@sable.mcgill.ca>
        Oege de Moor <Oege.de.Moor@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
        Pavel Avgustinov <pavel.avgustinov@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>
        Alessandro Warth <alexwarth@gmail.com>

The development of the Polyglot project has been supported by a
number of funding sources, including DARPA Contract F30602-99-1-0533,
monitored by USAF Rome Laboratory, ONR Grant N00014-01-1-0968, NSF
Grants CNS-0208642, CNS-0430161, and CCF-0133302, an Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellowship, and an Intel Research Ph.D. Fellowship.

Restrictions on distribution
----------------------------

This release of the Polyglot distribution is governed by the LGPL
license as described by the following copyright notice.

Polyglot extensible compiler framework
Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Polyglot project group, Cornell University

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in the file
LICENSE.LGPL, included in this distribution.


Excluding the exceptions listed below, all files in this release are also
released under the Eclipse Public License.  A copy of the license can be
found in the file LICENSE.Eclipse, included in this distribution.

The following files are covered by the LGPL, but are NOT released under
the Eclipse Public License:

        src/polyglot/ext/jl/parse/java12.cup
        lib/polyglot.jar
        lib/coffer.jar
        lib/pao.jar

        src/java_cup (and all files in subdirectories)
        lib/java_cup.jar  

Additionally, any build targets derived from the above files are not
released under the Eclipse Public License.


CUP Parser Generator Copyright Notice, License, and Disclaimer
---------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 1996-1999 by Scott Hudson, Frank Flannery, C. Scott Ananian
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that
the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both the copyright
notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
documentation, and that the names of the authors or their employers not be
used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission.

The authors and their employers disclaim all warranties with regard to this
software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness.
In no event shall the authors or their employers be liable for any special,
indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from
loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or
other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or
performance of this software.


BLOAT Copyright Notice, License, and Disclaimer
-----------------------------------------------
All files in the distribution of BLOAT (Bytecode Level Optimization
and Analysis tool for Java(tm)) are Copyright 1997-2001 by the Purdue
Research Foundation of Purdue University.

BLOAT was written by Nathaniel Nystrom, David Whitlock, and Antony Hosking
at Purdue University.  BLOAT is licensed under the LGPL and has the same
restrictions on distributed as Polyglot.  See the file LICENSE.LGPL for
a copy.


BASE64 Copyright Notice, License, and Disclaimer
------------------------------------------------
The Base64 code (polyglot.util.Base64) is derived from public domain
code by Robert Harder <rob@iharder.net>.  See http://iharder.net/base64.


Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.