causerie v1.0: A simple, elegant and powerful programming language.
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This file was last modified by Michael Malicoat on 1 January 2015.
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In its initial inception (this one, the one you are looking at right now), causerie will be more of a glorified preprocessor than an actual compiler. Nevertheless, it will successfully compile code from its own Smalltalk-derived syntax, to C, and then to a finished program.
For more information, please see the Wiki.
The initial version of causerie is written in Free Pascal using Lazarus.
The Lazarus project files are found in the top-level directory (the same
directory as this file) and, when finished, will allow you to build causerie
from source. Simply open cause.lpi in Lazarus, then choose Build from the
Run menu (or press Shift+F9 as of Lazarus 1.2.2).
On Windows, Lazarus will be the preferred method of building causerie from source.
If you would prefer not to use Lazarus, you will be able to build causerie using
a provided Makefile; note, however, that you will still need Lazarus
installed, as well as GNU make, in order for this to work. The reason that
you still need Lazarus is the base library (classwork.pp) relies on the
package LazUtils in order to handle UTF-8-encoded strings.
The makefile will be generated by fpcmake, which I haven't used before, but
based on the available options described in the online manual, it does not
appear that using the makefile will produce directory names that are as
organized as when compiling with Lazarus. In particular, it does not seem that
the automatically-generated Makefile will be able to place the compiled units
and the final binary in a subfolder of lib/ or build/ that is appropriate
for the target platform. The end result should be the same, however.
The initial version of causerie was built with Free Pascal 2.6.4, so you will need at least this version to compile. It may be that older versions will also successfully compile causerie, but I have not tested this myself. In the future, causerie will compile itself, so hopefully this will not be a matter of concern for too long.
This cannot yet be done, as only the base library is finished and the parsing library is nearing completion. This file will be updated as we get closer to a functional program.