cpprun

This is a tool designed to run c++ programs as scripts.

WARNING: work in progress, do not use.

installation

Please, clone this repository and run

./build.sh

Then you can install on the system with:

sudo ./install.sh

If you don't want to modify your system, install in your home directory

First, prepare .local/bin directory:

mkdir ~/.local
mkdir ~/.local/bin
cat "export PATH=PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

then install:

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local/bin ./install.sh

cpprun script.cpp

The tool will compile the code into a temporary directory and run it from the directory it was run from.

The c++ code is normal C++ code, for example

#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    std::cout << "Hello world!\n";
}

If you want to run the file directly like this:

./script.cpp

then add the following line at the beginning

///usr/bin/env cpprun ${0%%.cpp}

It uses CMake. You can put cmake commands at the beginning of the file in a comment, in order to pull dependencies.