The TI-BASIC Compiler

The TI-BASIC Compiler is all about compiling TI-BASIC code on your computer into an 8XP file ready for transferring to your TI-83/TI-83+/TI-84 calculator.

Being able to type your programs instead of try and use the calculator's keypad is much easier :)

How to run the compiler?

For most situations, just "drag and drop" the text file containing your code on top of the tibasic.exe file. A black window will appear for a split second and you should have an 8XP file next to your text file.

If you feel comfortable using a command line, you can run tibasic.exe without any arguments to get usage information.

Important Note!

There are a few symbols that could not be directly transferred to the language and were replaced instead with simpler tokens. Also note some of these are 'shorthand' versions of supported tokens:

• & --> and
• | --> <code> or </code> (including spaces!)
• ~ --> <code> xor </code> (including spaces!)
• theta --> [theta]
• powers --> ^ (for instance, 5 squared would be 5^2)
• e constant --> [e]
• i imaginary number --> [i]
• Store --> -> (same for such things as >DMS: ->DMS)
• Roots --> [root]^ (for instance, square root would be [root]^2)

All Picture variables (Pic0 - Pic9) and String variables (Str0 - Str9) are CAPITALIZED (ie. STR0)

Other shorthand versions for more obscure functions exist, check src/tokens.cpp for the mapping.

Happy programming!

How to build the compiler?

You will need CMake 3.15 or above and a C++ compiler.

For Windows with Visual Studio, the CMake project can usually be loaded directly into the IDE. See this tutorial for more.

On OSX or Linux, you will need to run:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

The compiler will be built and the compiler can be found at build/src/tibasic.