FTH Forth Scripting

• Download from Sourceforge
• Interpreter Documentation
• Library Documentation

About FTH

Fth is a BSD licensed free software package which includes the interpreter fth and the extension library libfth. You can write Forth scripts and interpret them with the interpreter fth or you can link libfth into an application to use Fth as extension language.

The core language of Fth is John Sadler's Forth-inspired command language Ficl. The interactive Fth interpreter supports tcsh-like comman-line editing and history manipulation with the tecla(7) library. Fth has some object type extensions, for example array, hash, string, regexp, bignum, ratio etc.

You can get the latest fth-1.4.2.tar.bz2 from https://sf.net/projects/fth/ or you can check out the SVN source code with:

% mkdir ~/src
% cd ~/src
% svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/fth/code/trunk fth


Now the directory ~/src/fth holds the source tree. From time to time you may later update the tree with:

% cd ~/src/fth
% svn up


Compile and install Fth with:

% cd ~/src/fth
% scons --prefix=${HOME} install


The REAME file has more.

Happy Forthing!