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LKscript - simple scripting everywhere.

About

LK is a simple but powerful scripting language that is designed to be small, fast, and easily embedded in other applications. It enables people to extend the built-in functionality of their programs, and provides a cross-platform standard library of function calls. The core LK engine, including lexical analyzer, parser, compiler, and virtual machine comprises roughly 6600 lines of ISO-standard C++ code, and is only dependent on the Standard C++ Library (STL), making it extremely lightweight and portable.

Features

Example

The standard one:

outln( 'hello, world!' );

Of course, more examples can be found in the manual.

Documentation

View the manual here.

Download

Check out the latest source code from: https://svn.lkscript.org/lk/trunk

Download a precompiled binary distribution: Windows 64 bit (19.6 MB) - November 13, 2019 or OSX 10.14 (13.4 MB) - May 17, 2019

C++ API

An example of calling the LK language engine from a C++ command-line program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <memory>

#include <lk/absyn.h>
#include <lk/env.h>
#include <lk/eval.h>
#include <lk/parse.h>
#include <lk/lex.h>
#include <lk/stdlib.h>
#include <lk/invoke.h>
#include <lk/codegen.h>
#include <lk/vm.h>

void fcall_out( lk::invoke_t &cxt )
{
    LK_DOC("out", "Output data to the console.", "(...):none");
    for (size_t i=0;i<cxt.arg_count();i++)
        fputs( lk::to_utf8(cxt.arg(i).as_string()).c_str(), stdout );
}

void fcall_outln( lk::invoke_t &cxt )
{
    LK_DOC("outln", "Output data to the console followed by a newline.", "(...):none");
    for (size_t i=0;i<cxt.arg_count();i++)
        fputs( lk::to_utf8(cxt.arg(i).as_string()).c_str(), stdout );
    
    fputs( "\n", stdout );
    fflush( stdout );
}
void fcall_in( lk::invoke_t &cxt )
{
#define NBUF 2048
    LK_DOC("in", "Input text from the user.", "(none):string");
    char buf[NBUF];
    fgets( buf, NBUF-1, stdin );
    cxt.result().assign( lk::from_utf8( buf ) );    
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    bool parse_only = false;
    bool use_vm = true;
    
    if ( argc <= 1 )
    {
        printf("no input file specified\n");
        return -1;
    }
    
    if ( argc > 2 )
    {
        if( strcmp( argv[2], "--parse" ) == 0 ) parse_only = true;
        if( strcmp( argv[2], "--eval" ) == 0 ) use_vm = false;
    }
    
    lk::input_file p( argv[1] );
    lk::parser parse( p );

    std::auto_ptr<lk::node_t> tree( parse.script() );            
    int i=0;
    while ( i < parse.error_count() )
        printf( "%s\n", parse.error(i++).c_str() );
    
    if ( tree.get() == NULL || parse.token() != lk::lexer::END)
        printf("parsing did not reach end of input\n");

    if ( tree.get() == NULL || parse.error_count() > 0 || parse.token() != lk::lexer::END )
        return -1;
    
    if ( parse_only ) return 0;
    
    lk::env_t env;
    env.register_func( fcall_in );
    env.register_func( fcall_out );
    env.register_func( fcall_outln );

    env.register_funcs( lk::stdlib_basic() );
    env.register_funcs( lk::stdlib_string() );
    env.register_funcs( lk::stdlib_math() );

    if ( use_vm )
    {
        lk::code_gen C;
        if ( C.emitasm( tree.get() ) )
        {
            std::vector<unsigned int> code;
            std::vector<lk::vardata_t> data;
            std::vector<lk_string> id;
            std::vector<lk::srcpos_t> dbg;        

            C.bytecode( code, data, id, dbg );
            
            lk::vm V;
            V.load( code, data, id, dbg );
            V.initialize( &env );
            if ( !V.run() )
            {
                printf("vm: %s\n", (const char*)V.error().c_str());
                return -1;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            printf("codegen: %s\n", (const char*)C.error().c_str() );
            return -1;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        lk::eval ev( tree.get(), &env );
        if ( !ev.run() )
        {
            for( size_t i=0;i<ev.error_count();i++ )
                printf("eval: %s\n", (const char*) ev.get_error(i).c_str() );
            
            return -1;
        }
        
    }
        
    return 0;
}

Author

Aron P. Dobos

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