Installation is simple: cp -r readline{,.scm} `gauche-config --sitelibdir` A Makefile is provided even more convenience: make install The following invocation shows how you can play with the examples without installing: gosh -I. examples/repl.scm -e '(main (list))' gosh 0.6.1's `gosh --help` does not mention the -e flag; the info documentation does, however.