MNH5

MNH5 project; a low profile scripting language written in Free Pascal / Lazarus

Contains:

• Shared source code
• Code for an IDE (which contains install routines in return)
• Code for a light version (console only)
• Scripts for building under Windows or Linux
• MNH scripts for testing

Previously on MNH (or: why 5?)

• Started as MNH ("minimal numeric helper"), a small toolset for interpreting mathematical expressions, based on a substitution system
• Later versions added vectors, custom functions, etc.y

Installation for users

• Download and unpack the build artifacts
• Linux/UNIX only: you may want to copy the executables to /usr/bin
• Start mnh.exe (Windows) or mnh (Linux)
• The application automatically "installs" itself, creating offline documentation and file associations (Windows only)
• Windows users can choose between a "portable" and a "normal" installation, which differ only by the location of the configuration files. You can change this later.

Installation for developers

• Prerequisites: ** Lazarus compiler (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/) ** BGRA Bitmap package (https://github.com/bgrabitmap)
• clone this repository
• run make.bat or make.sh
• if this does not work out of the box you may have to modify make_config.mnh
• if it does work you may want to try make.bat test (or make.sh test)

Usage

Just run the generated executable mnh.exe (or mnh for Linux flavours). You should have a look at the demos (press Strg+O and look for "demos"). You may also refer to the generated documentation (accessible via the "Show in Browser" button in the Help view that opens when pressing F1).

Used projects

• Free Pascal (c) 1993-2015 by Florian Klaempfl and others http://www.freepascal.org/
• Ararat Synapse (c) 1999-2003 by Lukas Gebauer http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/
• EpikTimer (c) 2003-2014 by Tom Lisjac [email protected]
• TRegExpr lib (c) 1999-2004 by Andrey V. Sorokin http://RegExpStudio.com
• BGRABitmap https://github.com/bgrabitmap/
• Lazarus Component Library (LCL)

License

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If you redistribute a modified version of this software please include a link to this GitHub page!