Compiling BASIC to Go to Binary

Everton da Silva Marques — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:13:20 -0000

Rob, I've added your _GOFUNC suggestion. It looks like this now:

everton@homeubu:~/basgo$ more gofunc/rad.bas 
110 rem Using _GOIMPORT and _GODECL to embed Go code within BASIC code
120 rem
130 _goimport("math")
140 _godecl("func degToRad(d float64) float64 {")
150 _godecl("    return d*math.Pi/180")
160 _godecl("}")
170 rem
180 rem Now using _GOFUNC to call that Go function from BASIC code
190 rem
200 d = 180
210 r = _gofunc("degToRad", d)
220 print d;"degrees in radians is";r
everton@homeubu:~/basgo$ 
everton@homeubu:~/basgo$ basgo-build < gofunc/rad.bas > a.go && go run a.go
 180 degrees in radians is 3.141592653589793 
everton@homeubu:~/basgo$

Compiling BASIC to Go to Binary

Everton da Silva Marques — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:20:54 -0000

Thanks for the _GOFUNC hint.

I filed an issue to fix it asap:

https://github.com/udhos/basgo/issues/3

Compiling BASIC to Go to Binary

Rob Hagemans — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:25:10 -0000

Hi Everton, that's great! I'll give it a try.

I noted that you introduce an extension keyword GOFUNC - could I suggest naming it _GOFUNC (with a leading underscore)?

The reason is that the GW-BASIC syntax forbids using keywords as identifiers, so adding a keyword will make the compiler incompatible with any program that has for example something like GOFUNC$="GO" or DEF FNGOFUNC(x)=x+1. The underscore is not otherwise legal in GW-BASIC identifiers , so this avoids a namespace clash. It's the same approach taken by QB64 and I've borrowed the idea for PC-BASIC extension functions as well.

Compiling BASIC to Go to Binary

Everton da Silva Marques — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:45:07 -0000

Hi guys,

First of all, thanks to Rob for PC-BASIC. It is amazing. It brings sweet old memories of fun with BASIC.

Currently I am sketching a toy compiler to translate BASIC programs to Go. Then the Go code can be compiled to native binary. It works like this:

basgo-build < program.bas > program.go ;# translates to Go
go build program.go ;# compiles to executable
./program ;# executes the binary program

Right now, it can handle only simple BASIC programs.

I use the awesome PC-BASIC as authoritative reference for the implementation of that BASIC-to-Go toy compiler. :-)

One can find the full toy compiler here: https://github.com/udhos/basgo

If you find fun in compiling old BASIC code to executable code, let me know. :-)

Cheers,
Everton

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