kronosta / c-intercal-easy

Easier way to install c-intercal

C-INTERCAL can be a bit difficult to compile and install. Here's a combination of source code updates by Ais523 (to make it work on modern compilers) only accessible from a nethack4.org github link and the configure script (necessary to do the entire process) only accessible from Eric S. Raymond's site.

Directions for Linux or WSL

• Extract c-intercal.tar.gz using the shell command tar -xzvf c-intercal.tar.gz. There should now be a folder called c-intercal in your current directory.
  • It's very important you use this shell tool and not Windows archiving tools like 7-zip. There are some important permissions on the files that only Unix tools will retain.
• Change to the new directory using cd c-intercal.
• For these next steps, you need the packages build-essential, bison, and flex. These are easy to get with the apt package manager on Ubuntu/Debian. Sometimes the build-essential package can be a bit tricky; you could try installing the packages separately (gcc, g++, libc6-dev, make, dpkg-dev) or consult this thread for some possible solutions.
• Run ./configure in the shell
• Run make in the shell.
• Run make install in the shell.
• C-INTERCAL should now be installed on your system. Call it from anywhere with ick.