C. Elegans is a compiled language like C, only more elegant. Also, it's slow like a worm.
Highly unfortunately, C. Elegans currently only compiles to v64 code, which in turn only compiles to 64-bit Linux ELFs. While I hope to change this in the near future, for now it is a reality, so you must be running 64-bit Linux to run the results you compile.
The current Elegans compiler depends on v64, which in turn depends on the FASM assembler. Even more stringently Elegans assumes that v64 is on your path, and in turn v64 assumes that FASM is on your path. You can download FASM for your system here: http://flatassembler.net/download.php
The current distributed version of v64 is in this archive.
To set up dependencies, run sudo make install. Once you have run this
script, you should be all set to run compiler.py, and start compiling
code. If you wish, you may symlink compiler.py to, for example,
/usr/bin/elg. The compiler will automatically find its "home"
directory by following argv[0] as a trail of symlinks. Therefore, you
may not hardlink elegans to /usr/bin/elg, or it won't be able to find
it's home directory any more.
(This assumes you ran: ln -s /usr/bin/elg $PWD/compiler.py during setup. Optional.)
Elegans usage: elg [-ldc] [-(i|ii) path:path...] [-o output] path
Options:
-l -- Don't produce an entry point. (library mode)
-c -- Produce crappy code. (no optimization)
-d -- Debug mode. (dumps parsing information)
-i path -- Add path to the end of the include search path
-ii path -- Add path to the beginning of the include search path
Are under examples/
For your Makefiles you may include the patterns:
%.o: %.elg
elg -l $< -o $@
%: %.elg
elg $< -o $@