spc-compiler

This is the compiler for the spoken language in Benjamin M. Gordon's PhD dissertation. The files in the tests directory exhibit all the syntax, but for now there isn't any other complete description outside the dissertation.

The top-level spc script is a wrapper around the Eclipse output in bin that you can run to compile a .spk file.

You can also use the spc.jardesc to export a working self-contained spc.jar. You can run spc.jar directly to compile files, or link to it to embed the compiler into other projects. The related spc-plugin project uses this latter idea. Note that the default output path assumes that you have the spc-plugin project added to the same workspace.

You will probably also want to get the spc Eclipse plugin in order to actually do spoken programming.

Prerequisites

• ANTLR 3.5.2 from antlr3.org.
• A recent Eclipse IDE with the egit and Java plugins. Fedora's 2018-12 and the upstream 2019-03 are known to work. The "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" edition seems to include everything needed.
• make. I have only tested with GNU make, but the makefiles aren't very fancy, so other versions are likely to work as well.

Build instructions

1. Clone the project somewhere, e.g. ~/projects/spc-compiler
2. Download antlr-3.5.2-complete.jar from the ANTLR site and put it in the lib directory.
3. Create a new Eclipse workspace, e.g. ~/projects/spc-workspace
4. Import ~/projects/spc-compiler into your workspace with the File -> Import -> Git wizard. Be sure to choose the "Import existing Eclipse projects" option at the appropriate step so that it reads the existing metadata.
5. Run Project -> Clean... to give the build system a kick.
6. In a terminal, run ./runalltests.sh from the top-level git checkout. This isn't part of the build, but it will confirm that everything was built into out correctly.
7. Optional: Right-click spc.jardesc and go through the Create JAR wizard to get a standalone spc.jar.

Eclipse will automatically run make whenever you touch one of the .g files, and the Makefile takes care of running ANTLR. The first time you open the project, Eclipse won't see the generated files, so you may have to build it and refresh the package explorer a couple of times to get it to be happy. After that, it should rebuild without further messing around.