a (de-)compiler for TI-BASIC with comment support

This little program is all about compiling TI-BASIC code on your computer into an .8xp file ready for transferring to your TI-83/TI-83+/TI-84 calculator (and vice versa). Being able to type your programs on a real keyboard instead of the calculator's keypad is much easier and avoids some otherwise big pain.

Note: This project is a fork from pcmattman/tibasic.

If you are using Arch, you can just install my AUR Package either manually or with your prefered aur helper (paru, yay, etc.):

paru -S tibasicc-git

For other systems, here is my also fairly easy general approach. I have recently only tested this on GNU/Linux, but it should still work on any other unix-like OS like MacOS:

git clone https://github.com/noahvogt/tibasicc.git
cd tibasicc
sudo make clean install

If you are a Windows User, you have to install git (don't forget to add it to your Path variable during the setup process) and MinGW first. Now open cmd.exe with administrator privileges and enter these commands:

git clone https://github.com/noahvogt/tibasicc.git
cd tibasicc
win-installer.bat

Now you have to add the directories specified in the output of the install-script to your Path variable. To do this, press the 'Windows Key' and search for "path". In the window that popped up, click "Environment Variables...". In this window you have to select a path variable (you can choose on your own between the system-wide variable and the user-wide variable), click "Edit..." and add them. Now you can open a new terminal window and it should work.

After installing, this program should be in your path. This means, you can call it from the terminal like this:

tibasicc [options] filename

I haven't made a man page for this simple program yet, but you can get some usage information when you run this program without any arguments or with some help flags (-h or --help).

Base Features

• compiling from source to .8xp
• decompiling from .8xp to source (-d flag)

Preprocessor

• support for comments (using #)
• remove empty lines
• remove lines that only contain whitespaces
• strip off unneeded whitespaces to make the binary smaller

Additional Options

• verbose / debug mode that gives a lot of information (-v flag)
• specify output file (-o flag)

• add a 'check' make target
• add bash / zsh autocompletion
• update / add documentation