pltc: Creating a programming language from scratch

This project is a tutorial for myself to learn how to create my own programming language. I decided to write all the code in C. Below is a list of things that I would like to try:

• a lexer
• a parser
• an interpreter
• produce native executables

The development compiler is Tiny C Compiler aka. tcc. It compiles code really fast. The name of my programming compiler is pltc, which simply stands for Programming Language Tutorial Compiler.

Getting started

Install tcc if you don't already have it

1. Go to this URL and download the appropriate version
2. Extract the downloaded zip file where-ever you like
3. Add the path to the tcc executable file into your environment
4. Confirm that it works by running tcc --help

Clone this repository

On the command line (if you have git installed):

git clone https://github.com/santerijps/programming-language-tutorial

Compile the binaries

With make:

cd programming-language-tutorial
make

With tcc:

cd programming-language-tutorial
mkdir bin
tcc src/pltc.c -o bin/pltc

Try the examples

cd programming-language-tutorial
bin/pltc examples/example.py