joaopssx/gojo-compiler

gojo-compiler is a project built in C that turns HTML and CSS files into standalone Windows programs, meaning .exe files you can run directly without needing a browser. Instead of relying on big frameworks like Electron or Chromium to display a webpage as an app, it talks straight to the Windows Win32 API, the low level system that Windows itself uses to draw buttons, text boxes, and other on screen elements. The way it works is broken into four steps. First a lexer reads through your HTML and CSS and turns the text into meaningful pieces, ignoring extra spaces. Then a parser takes those pieces and builds a tree structure representing your page, translating CSS styling rules like colors and sizes into exact numbers. After that, a code generator writes C code from that tree, matching HTML tags to their Windows equivalents, so a button in your HTML becomes an actual Windows button control. Finally, the project uses GCC, a widely used C compiler, to turn that generated C code into a finished executable, complete with the visual styling Windows expects from modern apps. A range of common HTML elements are supported, including buttons, text and password input fields, multiline text areas, dropdown menus, and headings or paragraphs rendered with the same font Windows uses elsewhere. Basic flexbox style layouts also work, with the tool calculating where each element should sit on the screen. To use it, you need GCC installed on a Windows machine, available through tools like MinGW or MSYS2. After cloning the project and running its build script, you compile your own HTML file into an executable and run it directly, no separate installer needed. This is a small, playful solo project, more of a creative experiment in pushing HTML and CSS past their usual role than a production ready tool. It has zero stars so far and carries the MIT license, meaning you are free to use, modify, and share it as you like.