bthies / streamit

The StreamIt compiler infrastructure.

StreamIt

This is the official repository of the StreamIt compiler infrastructure from MIT. To learn more about StreamIt, see:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/streamit

IMPORTANT NOTE: This repository is missing about 1.1GB of static data, including input/output traces, documentation, and other files. This data can be downloaded from the StreamIt website:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/streamit/streamit-static-data.zip

Additional README files are available within the "streams" directory.

streamit's Issues

Build system is broken

The only installation instructions I found are here:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/streamit/shtml/install.shtml

First of all, it would be better if installation instructions were part of the code repository, so that they can be easily maintained in correspondence with code.

Secondly, the existing installation instructions are incorrect.

Contrary to the instructions, one can not simply invoke configure. It appears the script is supposed to be generated from configure.in using autoconf.

After invoking autoconf and then configure, the latter script terminates with the message:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'

However, Makefile.in does not exist. It appears it is usually generated from Makefile.am using automake. However, running automake produces the following error:

automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
configure.in: error: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal)
automake: error: no 'Makefile.am' found for any configure output

I should also add that I am trying to build streamit on Ubuntu 18.04, where Java 1.5 that is expected by the build system is not available. I attempted to bypass this issue by substituting the check for Java 1.5 in configure.in simply with JAVA5=1

Another strange thing is that, in addition to configure.in, the repository also contains a hand-written Makefile. However, invoking it fails because it wants to run javac with options for Java version 1.5, which I don't have.

Please advise how to build/install streamit.

StreamIt requires very outdated Java version

StreamIt build system is trying to invoke javac with options requesting Java version 1.5. This version is not even maintained by Oracle anymore, and it is not available in Ubuntu 18.04 in the OpenJDK implementation.