How does compiling work?

[Julian Ohrt]

Hi Mark,

thanks for your reply. I am doing research about multi- and 
cross-plattform development tools at university. I am trying to 
summarize their way of working and concepts, in order to be able to 
categorize them (and maybe even to compare different tools).

If there is any more information you could provide I really would 
appreciated it.

Thanks,
Julian



On 08.09.2011 12:56, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> It would really help if you told us why you need to know.
>
> A LiveCode stack is packaged with the executable and is compiled, rather than interpreted, at runtime.
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> On 8 sep 2011, at 12:52, Julian Ohrt wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there any documentation how compiling of livecode works internally?
>> Is it a compiler which can produce native code (for Windows, Linux, etc.)? Are the scripts packaged within the executable together with an interpreter and interpreted at run time? Or is it more like a virtual machine approach?
>>
>> Could anyone point me to the corresponding references? Pressing a button is nice but I'd like to understand what happens behind the scenes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Julian
>
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