The Beaker Programming Language.
Beaker has several external dependencies.
- boost 1.55 or higher.
- asutton/lingo is a library that provides a number of utilities that can be used within various compilers. This
- The csll/llvm library provides a lightweight text-based LLVM assembly generator.
Note that Beaker does not depend on LLVM directly because the LLVM flags disable exceptions, which beaker relies upon heavily.
After cloning the repository, go into the directory and run:
git submodule update --init --recursive
This will pull the required versions of asutton/lingo and csll/llvm into your working directory.
The build is configured by CMake.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
The compiler is run by the command beaker. It takes a single
input file as an argument:
./beaker input.bkr
If input.bkr has a function named main, that function is
evaluated (main must not take arguments). Otherwise, the
compiler simply prints no main.
There is a test directory within hbe
The beaker implementation does not (currently) directly depend on lingo. Eventually, beaker will depend on the following features in lingo:
- string formatting
- node concepts
- debugging macros
- sexpr debugging
The long-term plan is to migrate a number of features out of beaker and into lingo, replacing older, less capable implementaitons. These are likely to be:
- the symbol table
- input buffer
- tokens
- lexing and parsing
- generic environments
- ???