The Jim Interpreter

Get It

Jim Tcl source is available from the git repository.

See http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or the github mirror at https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/jimtcl.git
remote: Counting objects: 3703, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (907/907), done.
remote: Total 3703 (delta 2715), reused 3703 (delta 2715)
Receiving objects: 100% (3703/3703), 1.88 MiB | 437 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2715/2715), done.

Note: The source code may be downloaded from repo.or.cz as a tar.gz or zip file instead if you don’t have git available.

Build It

You will need:

• a C compiler
• make

$ cd jimtcl/
$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
...etc...
$ make
gcc -g -O2 ... -c -o jim-subcmd.o jim-subcmd.c
gcc -g -O2 ... -c -o jim-interactive.o jim-interactive.c
gcc -g -O2 ... -c -o jim-format.o jim-format.c
...etc...

Test It

Jim Tcl includes an extensive test suite.

$ make test
      alias.test: Total    18   Passed    18  Skipped     0  Failed     0
      array.test: Total    12   Passed    12  Skipped     0  Failed     0
       case.test: Total     6   Passed     6  Skipped     0  Failed     0
     concat.test: Total    16   Passed    16  Skipped     0  Failed     0
       dict.test: Total    30   Passed    30  Skipped     0  Failed     0
      error.test: Total     3   Passed     3  Skipped     0  Failed     0
      event.test: Total    14   Passed    14  Skipped     0  Failed     0
       exec.test: Total    75   Passed    75  Skipped     0  Failed     0
      exec2.test: Total     6   Passed     6  Skipped     0  Failed     0
     exists.test: Total    16   Passed    16  Skipped     0  Failed     0
     expand.test: Total     4   Passed     4  Skipped     0  Failed     0
...etc...

Try It

The Jim Tcl shell can be run interactively.

$ ./jimsh 
Welcome to Jim version 0.71
.