frobtads-appimage

This repository provides self-contained distro-agnostic AppImages of the t3make (TADS 3 compiler) and frob (terminal interpreter) executables provided by the FrobTADS project, so as to make them much easier to install on Linux, since you will no longer need to build them from source.

This repository also contains an "Author's Kit" for Linux, distributed as a ZIP file, which provides:

• the TADS 3 compiler (t3make)
• the TADS 2/3 terminal interpreter/runner (frob)
• the TADS 3 system libraries (including adv3)
• the alternative standard library, adv3lite

Installing just the executables

To install just the bare executable appimages, follow these three steps:

1. Go to the Releases page in the right sidebar of this GitHub project and download the frob-x86_64.AppImage and t3make-x86_64.AppImage files
2. Run chmod +x on both files in the terminal to make them executable
3. Move them to somewhere in your shell's PATH, such as /usr/local/bin/ or, preferably, $HOME/.local/bin/

After installation, you'll be able to use the frob command by running:

$ frob-x86_64.AppImage myGameFile.t3

and the t3make compiler by running:

$ # in a valid TADS 3 project
$ t3make-x86_64.AppImage

Installing the full "Author's Kit" distribution

To install the full distribution, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Releases page on the right sidebar of this GitHub project and download authors-kit.zip
2. Unzip the folder
3. follow the steps in the previous section regarding the two appimages
4. then move the tads3/ folder wherevery you want, probably to your home directory
5. Point your t3m file's -FI and -FL directeves at the relevant tads3/include and tads3/lib directories wherever you moved the tads3/ folder