tengo-cli.md

Tengo CLI Tool

Tengo is designed as an embedding script language for Go, but, it can also be compiled and executed as native binary using tengo CLI tool.

Installing Tengo CLI

To install tengo tool, run:

go get github.com/d5/tengo/cmd/tengo

Or, you can download the precompiled binaries from here.

Compiling and Executing Tengo Code

You can directly execute the Tengo source code by running tengo tool with your Tengo source file (*.tengo).

tengo myapp.tengo

Or, you can compile the code into a binary file and execute it later.

tengo -o myapp myapp.tengo   # compile 'myapp.tengo' into binary file 'myapp'
tengo myapp                  # execute the compiled binary `myapp`

Or, you can make tengo source file executable

# copy tengo executable to a dir where PATH environment variable includes
cp tengo /usr/local/bin/

# add shebang line to source file
cat > myapp.tengo << EOF
#!/usr/local/bin/tengo
fmt := import("fmt")
fmt.println("Hello World!")
EOF

# make myapp.tengo file executable
chmod +x myapp.tengo

# run your script
./myapp.tengo

Note: Your source file must have .tengo extension.

Resolving Relative Import Paths

If there are tengo source module files which are imported with relative import paths, CLI has -resolve flag. Flag enables to import a module relative to importing file. This behavior will be default at version 3.

Tengo REPL

You can run Tengo REPL if you run tengo with no arguments.

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