Yep. I get this error:

C:\spidermonkey>make -f makefile.txt
makefile.txt:42: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Which is this line:

# Pattern rules
COMPILE=gcc -c  -g -ggdb -Wall -Werror -w -o "$(OUTDIR)/$(*F).o" $(CFG_INC) "$<" -DXP_PC -DWIN32 -DEXPORT_JS_API -D_declspec=__declspec
...
$(OUTDIR)/%.o : spidermonkey/%.c
    $(COMPILE) # <----- this one

Yeah, your version worked. One question, though. Do you happen to know the command to make a shared library in gcc? Thanks, btw.
EDIT:
Ok, I found it.

In Lua, you just don't give the script that ability.

The way it works, you have an object called the "lua_state". This object, conceptially, represents an instance of the interpreter. To give a script the ability to call a particular function, you register it with Lua. Now, Lua comes with a library of standard functions, one of which is for IO. If you don't register the IO library, and you don't expose user-defined functions to allow the script to write to a file, then it can't have IO.

If you want to have some scripts that can do this and others that can't, then you have several "lua_state" objects. For some "lua_state" objects, you allow IO, for others, you don't.

javascript doesn't have fopen/system/etc. Plus it has a security interface thingy:

http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/apidoc/jsguide.html

Although it doesn't seem uber-simple, I'm not sure how powerful you need that stuff in a game. That security manager is so you can have like core scripts in the game which can't be screwed up by scripts users load in.

Marcello

Bear in mind the NJS Javascript interpreter (google for it)

It's probably not as complete as the Mozilla one, but a lot smaller, simpler, and can be extended by adding new classes quite easily.

There is a class which enables File I/O, but I'm sure it can be removed at compiletime (or possibly runtime, by just setting its constructor to null)

Mark

Does njs javascrit interpreter have a compiler?

Marcello

Come on guys, stop the bickering. Sure it might be entertaining for you guys, but for the rest of us it's just spam.
If you want to talk about how much you hate each other or whatever it is, you should get together on MSN or something equally as not-near-me.

"Hey, how's it going?"
"Oh sure, I'm great."
"You would say that wouldn't you, you always think you're the greatest."
"Oh, and I suppose you think that you're better? You should just go back to your little hole."
"At least I have a little hole..."

heh.
Sorry, I'm just entertaining myself with the idea if having a hate meeting. If there is one thing I like, it's to hate.

As for the scripting stuff, thanks for the reply. If I feel like using one of those things, I think I'll go with PYTHON! It seems that it is just as good a language as the others, and perhaps a more useful language outside of scripting. I'd rather learn a useful language than a language just for the few games with scripts that I make.
Not to say the others aren't useful, I just like the look of Python. Lua, by the sound of it is the easiest to plug into your game, but I was put off by it about a year ago when I couldn't get the damn thing to compile without stuffing around with it for a long time... I figured that if compiling it was this bad, then making it work with my game wasn't going to be easy.

Well. Back to lurking for me.
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