ELENA Programming Language Files

                      ELENA Language Project V. 4.0.0
                        (C)2005-2019  By Alex Rakov
    
The project includes ELENA documentation, standard library source code, 
samples, command-line compiler, IDE.

Currently Win32-x86 (Windows 7/8/10) / Linux-I386 (alpha) platforms are supported.

For more information see at http://elenalang.sourceforge.net/

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* Features
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- Pure polymorphic object oriented language
- Dynamic "class mutation"
- Message dispatching
- ELENA Virtual machine
- Command line 32-bit compiler
- GUI IDE & Debugger
- Unicode support (utf-8)
- Complete source code
- Number of samples
- Getting started tutorial
- Simple Assembler compiler
- Script Engine / Interpreter
- ELENA Virtual Machine Terminal

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* OS requirements
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 - Windows XP(with some limitations) / 7 / 8 / 10, x86
 - Linux I386

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* License
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The compiler and executables distributed in this package fall under MIT License, 
for more information read the file LICENSE.

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* ELENA Installation / Run
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Windows:
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To install just unzip all the files into a directory you want.

You may need to add a path to BIN folder to system environment (e.g. <app root>\bin). 

Otherwise you may use setup executable.

The language requires Visual C++ Redistributable for VS 2017

To open, compile or debug the programs and libraries use ELENA GUI IDE 
(<app root>\bin\elide.exe) or ELENA Command Line Compiler 
(<app root>\bin\elc.exe).

In ELENA IDE you may select File-Open-Open Project option and open an 
appropriate project file (*.prj). Then select Project-Compile option to 
compile the project and Project-Debug to debug it.

Linux:
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To install just unzip all the files into a directory you want and execute 
rebuild_lib.script under the superuser. Alternatively install debian package

 dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file
 sudo apt-get install -f

Examples are located in /usr/elena-lang

To compile the program types : elena-lc <path to .project file>

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* Documentation
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Visit the project web site for the latest info on the project: 
http://elenalang.sourceforge.net/

The documentation is available as HTML pages, and text. 
These are all available on http://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/wiki
(see Docs page) and in <app root>\doc

There you also can find Getting Started tutorial

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* Suggestions, Help, Bug reporting  ...
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Suggestions, Help ...
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http://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/issues
    - tickets / issues / questions / bug reports

https://www.reddit.com/r/elena_lang/
    - reddit

elenaprolang@gmail.com
    - questions

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* ELENA Language modules and programs
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The complete source code of ELENA Standard library could be found
in the folder <app root>\src40.

The source code of ELENA samples could be found
in the folder <app root>\examples.

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* ELENA Language API & Documentation
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ELENA API Documentation could be found in the folder <app root>\doc\api.
Number of other documents (todo list, known bugs, road map) are located in
<app root>\doc. For any suggestion, comments or correction please contact
the author via twitter - https://twitter.com/elena_language 
or github - https://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/issues

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* ELENA Project Source code
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The project source code is compiled with Visual Studio 2017

The project files could be found in <app root>\elenasrc2 folder.