i kind'a dont know C++ programming but want to create a simple applicaton that compiles executables

[jamesguize]

my second post...


i kind'a dont know C++ programming but want to create a simple applicaton that compiles executables

my first language is GML, and planning to excel by learning C++, and my friends asked me to create a game engine, i thought that would be easy but i have lots of problems, and the hardest is to make an executable compiler for my application, can you please give me any tutorials on creating this kind of script through C++... thanks in advance for your help...

[anonymous23323124]

executable compiler

What do you mean by this? An executable file has already been compiled.

Assuming you want to write a compiler, I must inform you that this is (perhaps unfortunately) a highly nontrivial task. I imagine you would need knowledge of machine code/assembly, as well as considerable skill in other areas of programming.

Why exactly do you need to write your own compiler? If you are trying to make a game, you just need to get familiar with basic C++ (http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ ) and then a graphics/sound/etc library such as SFML (http://sfml-dev.org/ ).

Regards
-Xander314

[jamesguize]

thanks for answering sir...

what i meant about executable compiler, is an application that creates a new application using that executable compiler...

so is there any tutorials for that kind of application, or can you make one for me...

thanks...

[anonymous23323124]

an application that creates a new application using that executable compiler

So you want it to take some source code (like C++ code) and then generate executable code (i.e. a *.exe file on Windows)?

EDIT: I notice you have another similar thread. If indeed you just want a compiler to compile C++ source files into executables for you, then I would second the suggest of Microsoft Visual C++:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2010-Visual-CPP

[kfmfe04]

It sounds to me like he wants to create his own flavor of GML and compile it into an executable - a nontrivial task, indeed... ...have to understand BNF grammars, parsing, many data structures and algorithms, just to start - there are courses (university courses and books) for these kinds of things and usually before you start, you had better be an intermediate to advanced C/C++ developer with some experience.

As a warm-up, you can try to write your own arithmetic calculator in C or C++ first.

[anonymous23323124]

@kfmfe04

As a warm-up, you can try to write your own arithmetic calculator in C or C++ first.

[edit]Good idea. That would give OP a sense of the kind of logic necessary for parsing expressions etc.

[Zeillinger]

A game engine can also be a library for an existing programming language. Both task aren't a "simple application" as OP describes in his post. Anyway, You should bear in mind that...
1) You will need to write (a lot of) code, so you will need a good understanding of C++ (or any other language, if you choose to).
2) There is the possibility we aren't talking about the same type of "complier". Perhaps you can describe what you're trying to do in a greater detail so we can come up with a simpler alternative (if there is one).