A Terminal (ASCII Art) Processing Interpreter.

Tested on Linux (Ubuntu/Debian based distributions). Mac OS X and Windows (Cygwin/MINGW) should be possible.

• libCaca/ncurses
• Perl (File::Slup and File::copy Modules)
• GNU C++ Compiler

Installing requirements on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install libfile-slurp-perl libcaca0 libcaca-dev git ncurses

###Installation Get Processing-Terminal from Github

git clone https://github.com/rlfbckr/p5terminal

Add processing-terminal to your PATH or add an alias in .bashrc

alias p5terminal="/path/to/processing-terminal/src/p5terminal"      

Processing-Terminal consists of two parts:

1. C/C++ framework that mimics the Processing-core functions (e.g. draw(), line(), rect(), map())
2. A Perl-Script that builds and runs the processing-code (similar to Arduino)

The Perl-Script processing-terminal does the following:

processing-terminal demo.pde

1. It reads the given .pde file
2. It adds an #include of the processing-terminal.h header file to the first line
3. Precompiles the processing code
   • generating C function headers
   • inserts missing setup() and draw() functions
   • translates java syntax to C syntax
4. Adds an a main function
5. Builds and executable of the precompiled C code
   • create a build directory in the current path
   • copys the required C files and headers into the build directory
   • builds the executable with g++:
6. Executes the build
7. Restores the terminal (stty sane)

An example build command looks like this

g++ -Wall -g  -o build/demo build/p5terminal.c build/demo.c -Wall -lcaca -lpthread