Kapuc

General programming language for low-level performant program.

Build instruction

• nix users can use this

  nix-shell -p meson wezterm llvmPackages_17.libllvm ninja

• install llvm version >17.0
  • ubuntu/debian users use this

    wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
    chmod +x llvm.sh
    ./llvm.sh 17 # run as root

• install meson and ninja (python3 -m pip install --user meson ninja)
• actually building

  mkdir build # or whatever equivalent of this on Windows
  meson setup build
  meson compile -v -C build

Development instruction

• Look at
  • spec.md for the spec of the language
  • (TODO) docs/**/*.md for documentation of libraries and the compiler
  • lib/env_args.{cpp,h} for arguments of the program (kapuc compiler)
  • src/kapuc for the compiler stage
  • src/kapuc/{lex,parse}.{c,h} for syntax/parser
  • (TODO) src/kapu/ for the main package manager/build system
• Before making pr, make sure
  • You run clang-format with all of the files you modified (or simpler, git clang-format --staged for staged changes)
  • You make sure the build is successful
  • (TODO) check clang-tidy with clang-tidy --warnings-as-errors=* ./src/kapuc/*.{c,h} ./lib/env_args.{cpp,h}

Known issues

• Windows
  • Probably have an linking issues on build, no testing were done on Windows.
  • Cannot be built with cl.exe (Visual Studio C Compiler), please use Cygwin if you are on Windows or use WSL. (TODO: this could work? we could remove posix parts out but why)