wmlc(1)

💅 wmlc — a basic WML compiler (manual page, section 1, General Commands Manual) 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

wmlc — a basic WML compiler, bestie. that's it, that's the whole name section, slay 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this is a basic WML compiler. what it does is: it takes your WML source and compiles it into WML bytecode, all ready for transmission to a WAP device. that's the whole vibe. 📱✨

ngl, it's quite basic and it has a lot of limitations. but here's the thing — anything it can compile, wmld can decompile, and vice versa. so it's giving round-trip energy. 🔁💫

so long as scripts and variables aren't involved, the pages compiled seem to work reasonably well in Nokia's WAP Toolkit and Ericsson's WAP SDK. lowkey it works! 🙈

but it is not the most efficient, okay, no cap — the bytecode will be larger than other compilers. optimisation is Coming Soon(tm). 💀 (we love a tm, very iconic of them)

and listen, if you wanna compile bytecode where simple scripts actually work, there needs to be a mechanism for:

• building up the string table 🧵
• and also finding out what tag is appropriate 🏷️

other compilers use WMLG_STR_T, WMLG_EXT_T_2 or WMLG_EXT_I_2 to specify that a variable is coming, and honestly? I don't know which one to use — or even if it makes a difference. 🤷♀️😭

🦋 USAGE 🦋

Usage: ./wmlc file.wml [output.wmlc]

bestie the output.wmlc is optional, it's in square brackets, that's the whole hint 🫶

k bye ily, go compile something 💜

this lil page came from Debian GNU/Linux, dated July 2005 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, she's the main character of WAP-era tooling 👑⭐