Run BlueScript on 64bit-Linux (or macOS) systems

Requirement

• node.js

• The cc command for compilation of C programs

Installation

Download BlueScript from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/csg-tokyo/bluescript.git

and install it.

npm install

Move to the ./lang directory.

cd lang

Run the REPL

To run the REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) of BlueScript,

npm run shell

Built-in utility functions print(v: any), print_i32(v: integer), and performance_now() are available.

To close the shell,

> .quit

To read a source file and run its content,

> .load foo.bs

This reads foo.bs and runs the BlueScript program contained in that source file.

The source files can be given as command-line arguments.

npm run shell foo.bs bar.bs

This reads and runs foo.bs and bar.bs in this order when the REPL starts running.

Note that the REPL separately compiles every code fragment by users. It performs the reading, compiling, running, and printing loop. All the temporary files are stored in ./lang/temp-files.

Compile a BlueScript program

To compile a BlueScript program,

npm run compile foo.bs bar.bs

This compiles foo.bs and bar.bs and generates the native binary, which first runs foo.bs and then bar.bs. If a function called in foo.bs is defined in bar.bs, a compilation error will be reported.

The compiled programs can access the same built-in functions as the ones available in the REPL.

To give an optional argument to the backend C compiler,

npm run compile foo.bs bar.bs -- -args=-g,-o,foo

Arguments specified with -args= are passed directly to the C compiler. Commas within the argument string are automatically replaced with whitespace to separate individual compiler options. For example, the input -args=-g,-o,foo results in the compiler receiving the arguments -g -o foo.

Alternatively, use +args= without the -- separator.

npm run compile +args=-g,-o,foo foo.bs bar.bs

For debugging, pass the -g or +g option to the compiler. This prevents the compiler from removing working files such as generated source files in C.

npm run compile foo.bs bar.bs -- -g -args=-g,-o,foo