BaCon - Bash-based Basic-to-C converter/compiler

[2lss]

The next Wary Puppy, probably version 097, that I expect to release in 2-3 days, has BaCon support all setup and ready to go. See blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01950

Also, see my BaCon intro page:

http://bkhome.org/bacon/

Thanks Barry, I'm going to give this a try.

[BarryK]

The next Wary Puppy, probably version 097, that I expect to release in 2-3 days, has BaCon support all setup and ready to go. See blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01950

Also, see my BaCon intro page:

http://bkhome.org/bacon/

Thanks Barry, I'm going to give this a try.

I have uploaded Wary 097, which has all the bacon goodies in it. I am having a sound problem, which I why I haven't formally announced 097 on my blog, and 098 will be uploaded soon. But 097 should be fine for BaCon development -- and most likely you won't even get the sound problem.

Get 097 from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /wary-097/

[BarryK]

Note, I think that some of the .bac include files are broken in Wary 097, /usr/local/BaCon -- I created them by opening the .bac.html files on the BaCon website and saving them as plain text -- but the files have lots of '*' characters everywhere.

Note that Wary 097 has a compiled /usr/bin/bacon compiler, so doesn't need Bash 4.x.

[Lobster]

Note, I think that some of the .bac include files are broken in Wary 097

Downloaded and setup 097 (sound worked on initial boot and then never again - no persistence)

ahem . . .

Downloaded and setup 097

then went to usr/share/BaCon

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# bacon c calculator.bac
Starting conversion... done.   
Starting compilation... done.
Program 'calculator' ready.

I have pork

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# ./calculator 

-= BACON Calculator =-

1) Perform addition
2) Perform substraction
3) Perform multiplication
4) Perform division
5) Quit

Sadly hug.bac, editor.bac
etc are broken as mentioned

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# bacon c glade.bac
Starting conversion... 28   
ERROR: could not parse line 28 in file 'glade.bac'!
# bacon c editor.bac
Starting conversion... done.   
Starting compilation... Compiler emits messages!

Problem:
	 file 'editor.bac' line 227: WRITELN "font ", ptr1 TO settings
Cause:
	 incompatible type for argument 1 of '__b2c__str'

[Ray MK]

Hi Barry

Just a note to say Wary 097 seems fine - all the basic's,
from a n00b viewpoint seem to work.

Woof woof at startup ok, nico edit seems fine, using it now.

Wired internet - good. Not tried wifi yet, or dialup.

Had to setup mouse tapping - no prob's.
(051 tapping worked auto-magically)

097 not quite so snappy as 051 -
(guessing thats because of extra drivers etc)

Manual frugal to sda1 ext3, 256mb ram,
Celeron 2.5Ghz proc, 700mb swap partition,
Acer Travelmate 243LC laptop. approx 8yrs old.

Very best regards and many thanks for all you do - Ray

[vovchik]

Dear Lobster,

I am attaching the latest hug.bac and glade.bac as an archive. I know they work fine. Just unpack and replace your old files with these.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[jpeps]

I'm probably doing something wrong, but:

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~/Downloads/bacon/cli-demos $ sudo bacon c mastermind.bac 
Starting conversion... done.   
Applying indentation... sh: indent: command not found
Unable to delete file: No such file or directory

I'm using Lucid 2.3.5, with GNU bash, version 4.1.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu).

[vovchik]

Dear jpes,

Looks as if you are missing the indent binary (and who knows what else). In any case, here is the indent binary. Place it in /usr/bin and give it another try.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. And just run "bacon mastermind" for compilation of the source.

[NinerSevenTango]

Who dares to attempt to compile and run the gtk-server demo on the BaCon website?

Or the Glade example calculator.

--97T--

[vovchik]

Dear NinerSevenTango,

The program compiles fine and will work if you first install Peter's gtk-server (http://www.gtk-server.org/). Get the latest version and compile it. Make certain your /etc/gtk-server.cfg file corresponds to your version of gtk, otherwise you will have problems. Gtk-server is very picky about correspondences between the config file and the version of gtk you are running.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[NinerSevenTango]

Thanks, vovchik.

I did download and install the latest version of gtk-server.

This is a full install of Quirky 1.3.

I installed it as a 'shared object', after installing FFCall.

There is no /etc/gtk-server.cfg. I found it at /usr/local/etc/gtk-server.cfg. Should I move it, reinstall with some different options, or add a path variable? Hmmmm.

Edit: The file lists a bunch of libraries. I could find them all except:

libgtkgl-2.0.so, libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so, libgdkglext-x11-1.0.so, libgtkembedmoz.so, libpoppler-glib.so

Now I'm wondering, if the program calling it can actually find it, will it bomb if these libraries are not present?

I appreciate your response, thanks again,

--97T--

[jpeps]

Dear jpes,

Looks as if you are missing the indent binary (and who knows what else). In any case, here is the indent binary. Place it in /usr/bin and give it another try.

Thanks vovchik; working now, although "calc.bac" has strange way of adding: 20 + 35 = 2035

[vovchik]

Dear NinerSevenTango,

I seem to have all the libs you list installed and I also have a the .cfg file in your location, in addition to /etc. If I remove the .cfg file in /etc, then gtk-server refuses to run, so in my installation that is the correct location. I remember from my previous gtk-server experiments (quite a few), that the libs called for in the config file had to be on your system. I will look into this tomorrow, since I am trying to finish an urgent job....

With kind regards,
vovchik

[NinerSevenTango]

Thanks, vovchik, I believe that's enough information to save me a bunch of time fixing it. I can hunt those libs down and install them.

Happy coding!

--97T--

[jpeps]

Math '+' function in calc.bac needs () to add.

PRINT (f+g)

[BarryK]

Thanks vovchik for the .bac files. I have fixed them all in /usr/share/BaCon.

Wary 0.9.8 is now released:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01964

[PjotAwake]

Folks,

~/Downloads/bacon/cli-demos $ sudo bacon c mastermind.bac
Starting conversion... done.
Applying indentation... sh: indent: command not found
Unable to delete file: No such file or directory

The 'c' is not needed - if you run 'bacon' without any arguments you'll see the correct usage.

The 'indent' only will be invoked if you use the '-p' option.

If you encounter 'broken' files then please note that there are plain 'bac' files on the website of BaCon also. So for each program listed simply remove the '.html' extension and download the original source.

For example:

• * http://www.basic-converter.org/glade.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/glade.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/source.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/source.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/calc.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/calc.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/stars.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/stars.bac
  ....<more files>....

working now, although "calc.bac" has strange way of adding: 20 + 35 = 2035

I am not able to reproduce this. Did you correctly download the .bac files (see above)?

Regards
Peter

[jpeps]

Folks,

~/Downloads/bacon/cli-demos $ sudo bacon c mastermind.bac
Starting conversion... done.
Applying indentation... sh: indent: command not found
Unable to delete file: No such file or directory

The 'c' is not needed - if you run 'bacon' without any arguments you'll see the correct usage.

The 'indent' only will be invoked if you use the '-p' option.

If you encounter 'broken' files then please note that there are plain 'bac' files on the website of BaCon also. So for each program listed simply remove the '.html' extension and download the original source.

For example:

• * http://www.basic-converter.org/glade.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/glade.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/source.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/source.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/calc.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/calc.bac
  * http://www.basic-converter.org/stars.bac.html -> http://www.basic-converter.org/stars.bac
  ....<more files>....

working now, although "calc.bac" has strange way of adding: 20 + 35 = 2035

I am not able to reproduce this. Did you correctly download the .bac files (see above)?

Regards
Peter

Hi Peter,

Seemed to need 'indent' either way.

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~/Downloads/bacon/cli-demos $ sudo bacon calc.bac
Starting conversion... done.   
Applying indentation... sh: indent: command not found

I'm referring to the cli-demo:

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   REM Addition
    IF key EQ 49 THEN

        PRINT "Enter first number: ";
        INPUT f
        PRINT "Enter second number: ";
        INPUT g

        PRINT "\nResult is: ";
        PRINT f+g
        PRINT

[NinerSevenTango]

Looks like part of my problem is no opengl installed.

I installed the pets for mesa-7.8.1-s131, because that looked like the latest ones (except for some that look like for a newer version of x-server).

So now I get the dreaded

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual


I made sure to change the Disable to:

Load "glx" #LOADGLX

in xorg.conf.

That's an awful lot of forum searching and fiddling around, and still no luck.

It would be a boon to mankind if someone who had gotten a recent build of Puppy working with all this stuff would release a remastered ISO. <Moaning snipped, I could go to a bloated distro if I didn't want Puppy so bad.>

[PjotAwake]

Hi jpeps,

Can you tell me which version of BaCon you are using? Hope it is build 19. Furthermore, are you using the BASH version, or the binary version?

Note that if you use the BASH version of BaCon, you *must* use BASH 4.x or higher. In case of the binary, it should have been compiled within a BASH 4.x or higher.

If the Kornshell version was used, all Kornshell versions are woking fine.

The calculator (shell version) works fine for me:

peter@laptop:~/programming/bacon$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.0.33(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
peter@laptop:~/programming/bacon$
peter@laptop:~/programming/bacon$ ./bacon.bash calculator
Starting conversion... done.
Starting compilation... done.
Program 'calculator' ready.
peter@laptop:~/programming/bacon$ ./calculator

-= BACON Calculator =-

1) Perform addition
2) Perform substraction
3) Perform multiplication
4) Perform division
5) Quit

Enter your choice...
Enter first number: 20
Enter second number: 35

Result is: 55

1) Perform addition
2) Perform substraction
3) Perform multiplication
4) Perform division
5) Quit

Enter your choice...
Thanks for using this calculator!

Please let me know,

Peter