A guide to compile examples?

[piton182]

I am very interested in learning ATS via examples. But I can't seem to compile any. According to the Makefile, I am supposed to have atscc2js in ${PATSHOME}/bin and I don't have it after installing ATS. I can't find in the docs how do I get one?

[steinwaywhw]

Hi piton182, welcome to ATS. For the time being you can try glot.io, a website that can run ATS programs in the browser. Please also search for “Effective ATS”, in google, which is a series of tutorials by Hongwei. ATS-Lang-users is the google group that you can ask any questions.

I can find more document later today and write up some examples this week, which I always wanted to do anyway.

Cheers!

[steinwaywhw]

Also, to compile ATS to binary, you only need patscc or patsopt. The atscc2js tool is only needed if you want to compile your code to Javascript.

Usually to compile some file, you do

patscc -o a.out file.dats

[piton182]

Nice, thanks! Yes, I've reached out for ATS-Lang-users and have a guy helping me out. glot.io is a great recommendation, thanks. However, I consider the examples runnable (and correct) as I am curious to see what kind of interoperability ATS has with JS. So, I want to run the examples.

[steinwaywhw]

atscc2js is located under contrib/CATS-atscc2js. You can navigate there and make all.

[steinwaywhw]

These two pages have more information on using ATS with Javascript.

http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/ATS2FUNCRASH/HTML/c765.html
https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats/wiki/code-generation

[piton182]

Thanks! I will definitely check that out