compiler command-line interface moved here from compiler.pycodegen
diff --git a/Tools/compiler/compile.py b/Tools/compiler/compile.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d6facf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tools/compiler/compile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import sys
+import getopt
+
+from compiler import compile, visitor
+
+def main():
+    VERBOSE = 0
+    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'vq')
+    for k, v in opts:
+        if k == '-v':
+            VERBOSE = 1
+            visitor.ASTVisitor.VERBOSE = visitor.ASTVisitor.VERBOSE + 1
+        if k == '-q':
+            f = open('/dev/null', 'wb')
+            sys.stdout = f
+    if not args:
+        print "no files to compile"
+    else:
+        for filename in args:
+            if VERBOSE:
+                print filename
+            compile(filename)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()