[Axiom-developer] Aldor compilation for Axiom

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hello,

could someone tell me what ")compile blah.as" is actually doing in Axiom?

It is certainly more than saying

aldor -O -Fasy -Fao -Flsp -laxiom -Mno-AXL_W_WillObsolete -DAxiom -Y 
$AXIOM/algebra blah.as

(without having an Axiom session running).

I think someone once said that )compile calls aldor with the above flags 
and then also generates object files from the .lsp files. How could I 
achieve that from outside Axiom? Or is it enough to provide the .lsp 
files and the compilation to object files is triggered when the code is 
first used?

Further, I actually have a whole library (several .as files). What would 
be the right procedure to compile them externally (I want to do that via 
 Makefiles) and then provide some nice mechanism to load the compiled 
library into Axiom.

I just need a rough overview.

Thank you
Ralf