Arden2ByteCode Command Line Reference

Synopsis

arden2bytecode [OPTIONS] [FILE] [FILE...]

Options

• -h, -?, --help
  Display help to command line options.
• -c, --compile
  Compile the input files (must be of .mlm type) and write output of compiler to .class files.
• -o FILE, --output FILE
  Output .class file to write compiled MLM to. This is intended to be used in conjunction with -c.
• -r, --run
  Run the input files directly. The input files must be either .mlm files which will be compiled in-memory or already compiled .class MLMs.
• -v, --verbose
  Verbose output mode.
  For example the input files will be explicitly listed in this mode.
• -n, --nologo
  Don't display the header with program name and licensing information.
• -a, --arguments
  Specify arguments to the MLM. These are available in the MLM data slot via the argument identifier.
  Arguments that are formatted as floating-point numbers (e.g. 12.34e+5 or 1234000) are passed as numbers while all other arguments are passed as strings.

Setting up the MLM environment/context

• -p, --classpath
  An additional classpath from where the database driver may be loaded.
  For SQLite-JDBC, this might be <path>/sqlite-jdbc-3.7.2.jar, depending on the version.
  For MySQL, it is <path>/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar
• -d, --dbdriver
  The class name of the database driver.
  For SQLite, I use org.sqlite.JDBC.
  For MySQL, this is com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.
• -e, --environment
  The environment string used in the Arden2ByteCode runtime environment. JDBC connection strings imply that a JDBC environment is set up.
  For SQLite, I set this to: jdbc:sqlite:<dbfile>. You can also use a blank <dbfile> to use a in-memory DB.
  For MySQL, things are more complicated. Read Connector/J docs for more information.

Input Files

All further command line arguments will be regarded as input files.

Examples

• arden2bytecode -r hello_world.mlm
  Will compile and run hello_world.mlm without saving to .class file.
• arden2bytecode -o hello_world.class -c hello_world.mlm
  Compile hello_world.mlm and save to hello_world.class. The MLM will not be run.
• arden2bytecode -r hello_world.class
  Run already compiled MLM hello_world.class.
• arden2bytecode -nr hello_world.mlm
  Run MLM without displaying logo.
• arden2bytecode -nvc *.mlm
  Compile all MLMs in one directory verbosely. Don't display logo.
  This will only work if your command line interpreter supports expansion of * arguments.