Gforth
A free, fast, featureful and portable implementation of the Forth 2012 language.
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Build from Tarballwget https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Snapshots/current/gforth.tar.xz
tar xvfJ gforth.tar.xz
cd gforth-*
./install-deps.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
Git repositorygit clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gforth/
cd gforth
./install-deps.sh
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
See INSTALL.md for further details
Debian >= Bullseye
- If you don't have https transport for apt installed, do that first, since I'll redirect you to https in any case:
sudo apt install apt-transport-https - Make yourself root:
sudo -s - Obtain the key:
wget -O - https://net2o.de/bernd@net2o.de-yubikey.pgp.asc | \
gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/net2o-archive-keyring.gpg - Create a one-line file for the repo: Set version to either oldstable/stable/testing/unstable, whatever fits your Debian:
version=testing
cat >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/net2o.list <<EOF
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/net2o-archive-keyring.gpg] https://net2o.de/debian $version main
EOF - And then fetch the repository and install
apt update
apt install gforth-minos2 - Leave root
exit
Docker docker run -it --rm forthy42/gforth
orpodman run -it --rm forthy42/gforth
Supported systems
Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows and MacOS X and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. Version 0.7.9_20160714 has been tested successfully on the following platforms:
GNU/Linux
Gforth EC(embedded)
Windows
MacOS
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