This chapter describes how to use the current implementation of Cleet.

Get the tarball from http://somefancy.com/cleet/cleet.tgz . Untar it, and follow the directions in the ReadMe file to build the compiler.

Note that Cleet requires that the Boehm garbage collector be installed on your system.

To write a program in Cleet, create a directory for your program. In that directory, create a subdirectory called classes -- that's where you'll put your class files.

One of your classes will be the "program class". It must be a subclass of Program and will define create() and/or run().

Copy /usr/lib/cleet/makefiles/makefile-example to makefile in your project directory. Edit it for your project -- there are comments in it telling you what you'll need to do.

Once you've set up your makefile and written your classes, you just need to type make to build your program. You'll probably notice that the current Cleet compiler works by compiling the Cleet code into C++, and invoking GCC (or whatever your default compiler is) to compile and link the C++ into the executable.

If you feel the need to add functions and/or fields to one of the Standard classes, you can do so easily by creating a directory called class-extensions in your project directory. In that directory, you can put "class extension" files, which are just like class files, except they only contain the "Class:" header and the extra fields and functions that you are adding.