How to install the blz language for various operating systems

Already Installed?

You can update blz by running blz-update

Windows

1.) Install the Java JRE

2.) Add the Java bin folder to your PATH (help from oracle)

3.) Download the blz-ospl project from github

4.) Add the bin folder to your PATH

5.) From the command line, run

blz -h

GNU/Linux

Option 1 (installation script)

Use the installation script here

or by

curl https://blazingk.in/install_blz_unix.sh | bash (Always read scripts you download before running them).

Option 2 (manual)

1.) Install Java

2.) Clone the blz-ospl project from github

3.) Add the blz-ospl 'bin' folder to your path

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:INSTALLDIRECTORY/bin' >> ~/.bash_rc

Where INSTALLDIRECTORY is the directory where you saved blz-ospl

4.) Reload your bash profile

. ~/.bash_rc

5.) From the terminal, run

blz -h

MacOS

Option 1 (installation script) Use the installation script available here. (Always read scripts you download before running them).

Option 2 (manual)

1.) Install Java

2.) Clone the blz-ospl project from github

3.) Add the blz-ospl 'bin' folder to your path

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:INSTALLDIRECTORY/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile

Where INSTALLDIRECTORY is the directory where you saved blz-ospl

4.) Reload your bash profile

. ~/.bash_profile

5.) From the terminal, run

blz -h

Docker

The blz language is available as a docker image in the blzlang/blz dockerhub repository

If you have docker already installed on your system, it is easy to try out!

To run interactive mode

1.) docker run -it blzlang/blz -i

To create a docker image

1.) Create a dockerfile FROM blzlang/blz

2.) Setup dockerfile as normal

3.) Use RUN blz YourFile.blz or CMD blz YourFile.blz