rock
rock is an ooc compiler written in ooc - in other words, it's where things begin to become really exciting.
it has been bootstrapping since April 22, 2010 under Gentoo, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Win32, OSX...
Prerequisites
You need the following packages when building rock:
- GNU Make (
makeorgmake, depending on your operating system) - boehm-gc
- tar (for extracting the C sources)
- bzip2 (used by tar)
Install rock ooc compiler from .deb package
- Download latest rock release from https://github.com/cogneco/rock/releases
- Run command
sudo dpkg --install <latest-rock-release.deb>
Uninstall rock ooc compiler
- Run command
sudo apt-get remove rock
Build Cogneco version of rock with fasterthanlime version
- Build rock from https://github.com/fasterthanlime/rock by following the 'Get started' guide below.
- Create a copy of the rock binary namned safe_rock by running
make backup - Go to the rock folder cloned from https://github.com/cogneco/rock
- Create a folder called 'bin'.
- Copy safe_rock into the 'bin' folder.
- Run
make safeto build rock.
Cogneco version of rock builds itself but it has not been tested.
Get started
Run make rescue and you're good.
Wait, what?
make rescue downloads a set of C sources, compiles them, uses them to compile your copy of rock,
and then uses that copy to recompile itself
Then you'll have a 'rock' executable in bin/rock. Add it to your PATH, symlink it, copy it, just make sure it can find the SDK!
Install
See the INSTALL file
To switch to the most recent git, read ReleaseToGit
License
rock is distributed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.
Boehm GC sources are vendored, it is distributed under an X11/MIT-like license,
see libs/sources/LICENSE for details.