MyCTiger: Use Ring for generating and building C programs (Prototype of the idea)

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

Project Name: MyCTiger

URL: ringpackages/MyCTiger: Use the Ring programming language for generating and building C programs (Prototype of the idea).

Goal: Use the Ring programming language for generating and building C programs (Prototype of the idea). 

Description:

MyCTiger transforms the Ring programming language into a powerful domain-specific language (DSL) for generating and building C programs.

It empowers developers to enjoy the performance and efficiency of C while leveraging Ring’s expressive syntax and productivity for DSL creation. Unlike traditional approaches that embed Ring within C applications or extend the Ring VM using C code, MyCTiger reimagines Ring as a meta-language for C.

This isn’t about runtime language integration—it’s about compile-time code generation. With MyCTiger, Ring becomes a high-level interface for producing C code, enabling direct injection of raw C and seamless use of existing C libraries without bindings.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mahmoud,

What can i say: it's a HUDGE news and transformative feature for the present and future of Ring!

Ring is elegant, expressive and ritch, yet open by extension to C and C++... Now we can tackle machine learning, and any performance critical domain directly with Ring!

THANK you very much Mahmpoud!!

And I'm happpy that this raw C force will make my stzExterLib polyglot programming module in Softanza even more powerful : 

Keep Impressing Us!

Long Life Ring!

Best,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mansour

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Ilir Liburn]

Hello Mahmoud,

It is better to have CTiger than CElephant like Ring2C project is. This will simplify writing the C transformer in the future. Thank you.

Greetings,

Ilir

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Ilir

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

Thanks for sharing MyCTiger! I love the concept of using Ring as a compile-time DSL for C code generation—flipping the typical embedding approach on its head is really clever. Getting Ring's expressive syntax for meta-programming while extracting raw C performance (and skipping binding boilerplate entirely) feels like a fresh, practical take on the best of both worlds. Appreciate you putting this out there!

Best regards,
Youssef

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Bert Mariani]

Hello Mahmoud

An Impressive New Addition to Ring !!

Will have to try it out.

How is this different than using:

     C:\ring\bin\ring2exe.exe Curl-Get-QHD.ring    ==>   Curl-Get-QHD.exe

Where Ring Code was converted to an EXE file

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Bert

You are welcome :D

In Ring2EXE, the Ring program is compiled to Ring Byte Code then the generated executable executes this byte code using Ring VM

In MyCTiger, think about it as (Using Ring instead of using C Pre-processor) 

i.e. When writing C code, we have pre-processor and the ability to use #include, #define, etc.

MyCTiger works at this layer, so Ring code is used for generating C code and then building the application (instead of Batch Files)

MyCTiger is just a prototype for this idea, could be extended by interested developers through writing libraries, DSL, etc. 

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

Our friend Azzeddine has made excellent updates to MyCTiger in this fork.:  azzeddine2017/MyCTiger: Use the Ring programming language for generating and building C programs (Prototype of the idea).

Interested developers can improve MyCTiger in their own forks or collaborate within one of the existing forks (currently, we have Azzedine’s version).

This way, we can keep the original MyCTiger project unchanged—as a simple prototype to demonstrate the idea.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Azzeddine,

Thank you for your contribution to this wonderful project! I hope you will continue working on it.

I'll test it when I have time and I'll let you know.

Best,

Mansour

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[Ka mara]

Hallo Mahmoud et others
How do you get started with testing this??

Running; Tiger helloc.tiger

 In ring 1.24 lightRelease Cmd

Says "Tiger not recognized"

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello 

>> "How do you get started with testing this??"

Run build.bat to create Tiger.exe

URL: MyCTiger/build.bat at main · ringpackages/MyCTiger

Greetings,

Mahmoud