parasol

The Parasol Language and related core development tools

Documentation can be obtained by cloning the repository to a Linux directory, then in the repo directory issue the following shell command:

bin/paradoc -c doc/parasol ~/paradoc

Thus will generate a set of HTML pages under a new directory named paradoc in your home directory. You can, of course, substitute any other directory name you wish, but if you name an existing directory, the command will fail.

You can use the -f option to force delete any existing directory.

bin/paradoc -c doc/parasol -f ~/paradoc

You may then run the following command:

sudo bin/phost --localhost ~/paradoc &

Note that this will default to port 80.

In a browser, you can then enter the URL:

http://localhost

Which will bring up the top-level page of the documentation suite, which is quite patchy, although the runtime documentation is fairly complete.

Because port 80 requires root permissions to open, you must run this command under sudo. If you are already hosting another server on that port or you don't want to use sudo, you can add a --port=<number> option to the command line. For example, if you want to use port 8080, use this:

bin/phost --port=8080 --localhost ~/paradoc &

You will then use the following url:

http://localhost:8080