Fixes for builds and accessing version and install scriptv2025-12-21.5

4 files changed, 49 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 14e0dc5f..0393cecf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Version History
 
+## v2025-12-21.5
+
+- Various fixes for versioning and builds.
+
 ## v2025-12-21.4
 
 - Version bump and deprecated `--changelog` flag
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ac7e91ba..456b9e46 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ of many language features or the other example programs/modules in
 [examples/](examples/). You can also look at the [core libraries](lib/) which
 are implemented in Tomo.
 
+## Quick Installation
+
+If you don't want to build from source but just want to install, run this script:
+
+```
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bruce-hill/tomo/refs/heads/main/install_script.sh | bash`
+```
+
 ## Features
 
 ### Performance
diff --git a/install_script.sh b/install_script.sh
index 1b3d92ae..21535f3d 100755
--- a/install_script.sh
+++ b/install_script.sh
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ if echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n' | grep -qx "$HOME/.local/bin"; then
     default_prefix="~/.local"
 fi
 printf '\033[1mChoose where to install Tomo (default: %s):\033[m ' "$default_prefix"
-read DEST
+read DEST </dev/tty
 if [ -z "$DEST" ]; then DEST="$default_prefix"; fi
 DEST="${DEST/#\~/$HOME}"
 
@@ -141,3 +141,5 @@ else
     tar -xzf "$FILE" -C "$DEST" --strip-components=1 "tomo@$TAG"
 fi
 echo "Installed to $DEST"
+
+rm -f "$FILE" "$FILE.sha256"
diff --git a/src/stdlib/stdlib.c b/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
index 688f2eb4..023791a2 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/stdlib.c
@@ -80,20 +80,45 @@ static inline const char *get_library_path(void *func) {
 #error "Unsupported platform"
 #endif
 
-const char *resolve_symlinks(const char *path) {
-    static char resolved[PATH_MAX];
-    if (realpath(path, resolved) != NULL) {
-        return resolved;
-    } else {
-        perror("realpath");
-        return NULL;
+char *find_in_path(const char *name) {
+    if (strchr(name, '/')) {
+        // name contains a slash → treat as path
+        char *abs = realpath(name, NULL);
+        if (abs == NULL) fail("Couldn't find real path of: ", name);
+        char *ret = String(abs);
+        free(abs);
+        return ret;
     }
+
+    char *path_env = getenv("PATH");
+    if (!path_env) return NULL;
+
+    char *paths = strdup(path_env);
+    if (!paths) return NULL;
+
+    char *token = strtok(paths, ":");
+    while (token) {
+        char candidate[PATH_MAX];
+        snprintf(candidate, sizeof(candidate), "%s/%s", token, name);
+        if (access(candidate, X_OK) == 0) {
+            char *abs = realpath(candidate, NULL);
+            free(paths);
+            char *ret = String(abs);
+            free(abs);
+            return ret;
+        }
+        token = strtok(NULL, ":");
+    }
+
+    free(paths);
+    return NULL; // not found
 }
 
 public
 void tomo_configure(void) {
-    const char *lib_path = resolve_symlinks(get_library_path(get_library_path));
-    Path_t path = Path$from_str(lib_path);
+    const char *p = get_library_path(get_library_path);
+    p = find_in_path(p);
+    Path_t path = Path$from_str(p);
     TOMO_PATH = Path$as_c_string(Path$parent(Path$parent(path)));
     Text_t base_name = Path$base_name(path);
     TOMO_VERSION_TEXT = Text$without_suffix(