Build From Source

Without a build script

Pocketlang has zero dependencies and you don't even require a build system, just a c99 compiler is enought, and it can be compiled with the following command.

Using gcc

gcc -o pocket cli/*.c src/*.c -Isrc/include -lm

Using MSVC

cl /Fepocket cli/*.c src/*.c /Isrc/include && rm *.obj

For other compilers it's the same (If you weren't able to compile it with any c99 compatible compiler, please report by opening an issue). And add -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast for gcc to suppress those warnings emitted when nan-tagging is enabled.

Using a build script

You could find some of the build script for different build system in the build/ direcroty. If you don't find a scirpt for your prifered system, request on github by opening an issue or feel free to contribute one.

Makefile

cd build && make

Batch script with MSVC

cd build && build

You don't require to run the script from a Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt, It'll search for the MSVS installation path and use it to compile. But if it can't, try running on VS command prompt.

SCons

pocketlang mainly focused on scons, and it's recommended to use it for contributions since it has various configurations and compiler support. It's a python based build system. You need to have python 3.6+ installed in your development environment. To install scons run python3 -m pip install scons. Make sure it's version is 3.0+ and for Visual Studio 2019 it require v3.1.1+. In Linux if scons using python2 instead of 3 you'll have to edit /usr/local/bin/scons or ~/.local/bin/scons to ensure that it points to /usr/bin/env python3 and not python

cd build && scons

You can specify the number of jobs scons to use to speed up the building process using the -j flag (-j6, -j8). To generate Visual Studio project files add vsproj=true argument when building. To compile using mingw in windows use use_mingw=true argument. If your build failed feel free to open an issue.

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