w64devkit VS cling

Try w64devkit https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

Click "View raw" to download. The executable is just ~3kB. If you'd like to try building it yourself, I distribute a Windows XP-friendly, no-installation-required C and C++ toolchain, w64devkit. The 32-bit toolchains are labeled "i686" (on the right under "Releases"). The build command (cc ...) is at the top of the source file.

I bundle my preferred tools together in a standalone compiler toolkit for Windows: w64devkit. Except Git and documentation (see the links in the README), that's essentially everything I need to be productive.

I have a Dockerfile here that goes through all the steps bootstrapping a Mingw-w64 toolchain from source: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

FWIW, both GNU objcopy and GNU ld (including e.g. the XCOPY-deployable ones from w64devkit[1]) are perfectly capable[2] of turning binary data into MSVC-acceptable COFF files with start and end symbols, while Free Pascal, for example, straight up ships with a bin2obj tool; the MSVC toolset is the outlier here.

[1] https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

[2] https://www.devever.net/~hl/incbin

Sounds like an high priority issue to solve first. I distribute a toolchain that doesn't require installation and includes a debugger: w64devkit (see "Releases"). You can pluck out the gdb.exe since it's statically linked and doesn't depend on anything else in the kit.

This particular case is a Windows program due to Winsock, and I happen to include all the above tools, except SDL2, a small Mingw-w64 distribution, w64devkit. So it doesn't take much!

Similar project providing slightly fewer tools: https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

More recent activity, but based on clang: https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-cling https://github.com/root-project/cling

> The repl driven workflow is amazing and the lisp images are rock solid and highly performant.

do people not realize that basically everything vm/interpreted language has a repl these days?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/java-repl-j...

https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

https://pub.dev/packages/interactive

not to mention ruby, python, php, lua

hell even c++ has a janky repl https://github.com/root-project/cling

Interactive C++ with Cling, https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2020-11-30-interactive-cpp-with-cling/, https://github.com/root-project/cling/, Relaxing the One Definition Rule in Interpreted C++, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3377555.3377901 (PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339463915_Relaxing_the_one_definition_rule_in_interpreted_C)

Want to see your mind blown? Check out cling, a (sort of) C and C++ interpreter (it's a REPL). Or the work in progress, live-developed clauf, a real C interpreter.

Cling: https://github.com/root-project/cling

Wanting to just test pure c or c++ functions that are hardware independent -> (solution that I'm using): cling just in time compiler, gives a shell that you can just experiment with C++ expressions

C++ source cannot contain a shebang, but you can make them executable with binfmt-misc, and have the kernel pass them to a C++ interpreter such as Cling upon execution. Pretty much the same as running Python or Bash scripts.