Docker-Forth - Docker images for popular Forth systems

When you try to write portable Forth programs it is hard to verify that your program is in deed compatible to a wide variety of Standard Forth systems. It would be ideal if you could test your program against many systems. With Forth systems in docker containers you now can.

This repository provides Dockerfiles for a growing number of popular Forth systems, so it is getting easy to run them for a test drive.

If you are not familiar with Docker, read about it at www.docker.com.

If you want to write Standard Forth programs and contribute them to the community have a look at forth-standard.org and theforth.net

Supported Forth systems

• cforth
  Forth in C by Mitch Bradly, https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth

• figforth32
  32 Bit FIG-Forth for Linux by Albert van der Horst, https://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/figforth.html

• flk
  Optimizing native code compiler targeted for the Intel 386+ CPU by Lars Krueger, mirror at https://github.com/uho/flk

• gforth
  Gforth as installed in latest Debian, by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, et.al, https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth

• gforth-current
  A fairly up to date gforth development build, by Anton Ertl, Bernd Paysan, et.al, https://github.com/forthy42/gforth

• gforth32
  32-Bit version of gforth 0.7.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth

• gforth32-0.6.2-7.3_libffcall1
  Ancient gforth version 0.6.2 (32 Bit) that some applications need, https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth

• gforth64-0.6.2-7.3_libffcall1
  Ancient gforth version 0.6.2 as 64 Bit Forth, https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth

• kforth32
  Kforth, 32 Bit version by Krishna Myneni, https://github.com/mynenik/kForth-32

• kforth64
  Kforth, 64 Bit version by Krishna Myneni, https://github.com/mynenik/kForth-64

• lina32
  ciForth 32 Bit Linux version by Albert van der Horst, http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst

• lina64
  ciForth 64 Bit Linux version by Albert van der Horst, http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst

• mecrisp-stellaris
  Native Code ARM Forth by Matthias Koch, http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net

• minforth1.5
  Forth in C with transpiler early version by Andreas Kochenburger, mirror at https://github.com/andrewtholt/minforth

• minforth3.4
  Forth in C with transpiler by Andreas Kochenburger, https://sourceforge.net/projects/minforth

• muforth
  Forth in C by David Frech, https://github.com/nimblemachines/muforth

• pfe
  Forth in C Portable Forth Environment by Dirk Zoller, Guido Draheim, et al., https://sourceforge.net/projects/pfe

• pforth
  Forth in C by Phil Burk, https://github.com/philburk/pforth

• sf-forth
  ANS-Forth Compiler for Linux, by KTarasov, Andrey Filatkin, Aleksej Saushev, et. al. , http://downloads.sourceforge.net/spf

• swiftforth
  Commercial ANS Forth standard system by Forth, Inc., evaluation version, http://www.forth.com

• ueforth
  Forth in C (also Basis of esp32Forth) by Brad Nelson, https://github.com/flagxor/eforth

• vfxforth
  Commercial ANS Forth standard system by MPE Ltd, evaluation version, https://www.mpeforth.com

Try them

All free systems are also available as prebuilt images. To run them just run

docker run -i -t --rm rundockerforth/SYSTEMNAME

where SYSTEMNAME is one of the above Forth system names.

Contribute

If you want to improve the images (e.g. update them to a newer version, reduce the memory footprint, etc.) or contribute other systems, I would be happy to accept your pull requests.

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May the Forth be with you.