introduction

1 Introduction



1.1 What is C·Wayv?

C·Wayv consists of a high-level programming language, inspired of Action Script & Haxe like language, usually symbolized with a "Wave arrow" (C↝) as title or simply with a tilde (C~)

Based on C++, acting like an overlay, it's possible to mix C~/C++. You can also interact with GLSL and Javascript, in a single file, variables from different languages are inter-accessible.

C~, is strongly typed to have robust code and best performances. Main goal is to easily have a single code-base which compiles to multiple targets.

It use the powerful Cwc intelligent compiler, which achieve outstanding performances using highly optimized C++ compiler in backend.

Also this provide the ability to generate any platform output binary since a multitude of backend toolchain can be selected.

Currently, there is the available toolchains :

Toolchain	From	Target
LibRT	Windows	Windows, Linux
libRT(Debian)	Linux	Linux, Windows

Haxe abstracts away many target differences, but sometimes it is important to interact with a target directly, which is the subject of target-details.

1.2 Getting Started

The following program in C~, prints "Hello World" after being compiled and run:

class Main {
  public function Main():Void {
    Debug.fTrace("Hello World");
  }
}

This can be easily tested by saving the above code to a file named Main.cw and invoking the Cwc Compiler

1.2.1 Required tools

Compilation process is greatly simplified, Cwc is the unique tool you need to build your code.

Grab the last version of Cwc compiler

Unzip archive, and run Cwc

1.2.2 First use of Cwc

First Cwc ask for:

• Demos: Feel free to learn from example.

See download section

• Setting the Cwc path to your environement. This is usefull when you need to access to Cwc from anywhere in Command-line

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