Picol  Picol

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Picol is a fun-size Tcl interpreter: the version found in this repository is around 5 KSLOC. Picol was originally written by Salvatore Sanfilippo and then extended by Richard Suchenwirth in 2007.

This fork splits it into a library (picol.h) for embedding the interpreter in other applications and a REPL program (interp.c) and includes a number of new commands and fixes for correctness and Tcl 8.x compatibility. Examples of programs that embed Picol can be found in the directory examples/.

Note that Picol is not intended for production use.

Getting the latest source code

Tarball

Go here and click "Tarball" to download.

Fossil

fossil clone https://chiselapp.com/user/dbohdan/repository/picol/ picol.fossil
mkdir picol
cd picol
fossil open ../picol.fossil

Git (via the GitHub mirror)

git clone https://github.com/dbohdan/picol

Building and testing Picol

Go to the directory where you downloaded Picol and run

make test
make examples-test

Binaries

Per-push Windows binaries are available on Bintray.

More about Picol

See also

  • Jim Tcl (wiki) — Also started by Salvatore Sanfilippo, Jim is a small but full-featured embeddable Tcl implementation.
  • LIL (wiki) — A Tcl-inspired interpreter in a pair of .h/.c files that is similar to Picol in size.