(A more detailed description will be provided later.)
Tomoko currently uses the Forth source code from Richard W.M. Jones' excellent public domain "JonesForth" implementation, and as such inherits a couple of its idiosyncrasies. Cheng Chang Wu has modified JonesForth to be ANS FORTH compliant, and Tomoko will be updated to use the Forth sources from that project, shortly.
cp src/jonesforth.f.txt ~/.tomoko
cd build
make
cd ..
./tomoko
Tomoko assumes a 32-bit CPU architecture. It is compiled with "gcc -m32". On 64-bit systems, you may need to install the 32-bit versions of the glibc and readline libraries. On my Fedora 14 system:
yum -y install glibc-devel.i686 readline.i386 readline-devel.i386
Tomoko's input routines don't currently treat backslash comments as special (they are defined as a word), so the long comment on line 22 of jonesforth.f.txt will be treated as an error, but things will work fine anyway.