Compiling Babel

If you are looking for an overview of Babel, see the "Documentation" section below.

Compiling Babel

My scripts are set up using Cygwin and I'm currently compiling for a Win32 target using the tcc C compiler (I have the compiler in the repo because I eventually plan to link to it). Babel might actually compile to *nix but I haven't tried it yet. Eventually, Babel will be cross-compiled on both Windows and *nix. To compile Babel, just run:

  perl make.pl

This will build babel.exe in the bin directory. You are now ready to run Babel.

  bin/babel.exe

Installing Cygwin

Go here

Installing Graphviz on Windows

If you want to use the dump (Babel-to-Graphviz) operator to provide visualization of the Babel data-structure, you will need to install Graphviz dot (on Windows; it's installed by default in any Linux distro I'm aware of). In order to view the output, you will need to redirect it to a file:

  perl babel eg/bbl2gv.sp > eg/bbl2gv.dot

Download the Graphviz software for your version of Windows and install it. Then, run the following command:

  dot -Tsvg eg/bbl2gv.dot > eg/bbl2gv.svg

Now, open the eg/bbl2gv.svg file in any web browser (Chrome and Firefox both work well for me).

Note that when you run the interpreter in debug mode, it automatically generates a "snapshot.dot" file, which is a visual snapshot of your entire Babel program.

Documentation

doc/babel_gsg.md

Getting Started Guide

doc/babel_phil.md

Documents the "Philosophy of Babel"

doc/babel_op.md

Documents the built-in Babel operators. This file is generated when you build Babel using the make.pl script.

doc/babel_guts.md

Documents the internals of the Babel interpreter, as it is.

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