1 Welcome to the FLK forth compiler.
3 FLK is an optimizing native code compiler targeted for the Intel 386+ CPU
4 running Linux. Porting to other Intel 386 Unixes should not be hard (
5 recompile it and go.) I'm curious to hear the results in doing so.
7 FLK is distributed under the GNU public license. See the file COPYING for the
10 For a successful compilation you need a running FORTH that is able to execute
11 a script file. gforth and pfe work fine.
13 To compile and install the system
14 - edit Makefile to match your system (path)
15 - edit f to match your system
20 (The latter builds xflk which uses the xforms library. If you don't have it,
21 just use "make install".)
23 See TODO.txt for "construction sites". I do not plan to continue developing
24 FLK for a few reasons:
25 - I'm no student anymore. That limits my time more than I like it. ;-)
26 - FLK's optimizer isn't able to do inlining which would gain most speed.
27 - There are some other problems concerning the terminal which are either
28 hard to track down or impossible to fix without rewriting the whole
30 Instead I want to add my compiler (which I think is very good) to gforth.
32 A set of HTML files is provided as a basic help in the directory html.
33 The entry point is the file index.html.
35 For guidance and advice: see "Advice and guidance"