cscript

by Jason A. Donenfeld

cscript executes C code from stdin using any variety of compiler arguments. It can be used from the command line:

$ echo 'main(){puts("hello world");}' | cscript

Or it can be used at the top of scripts:

 #!/usr/bin/cscript
 main(){puts("hello world");}

One might even register .c as an executable file type:

# echo ':cfile:E::c::/usr/bin/cscript:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
$ echo 'main(){puts("hello world");}' > a.c
$ chmod +x a.c
$ ./a.c

It respects the CC environment variable, and does not create any temporary dentries that need to be cleaned up ever.

Building

$ make
$ sudo make install PREFIX=/usr

License

This project is released under the GPLv2.