Idris2/INSTALL.md

Installing

• Installing from source
• Installing from a package manager

Installing from source

The easiest way to install is via the existing generated Scheme code. The requirements are:

• A Scheme compiler; either Chez Scheme (default), or Racket.
• bash, with realpath. On Linux, you probably already have this. On a Mac, you can install this with brew install coreutils. On FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, you can install realpath and GNU make using a package manager. For instance, on OpenBSD you can install all of them with pkg_add coreutils gmake command.

On Windows, it has been reported that installing via MSYS2 works (https://www.msys2.org/). On Windows older than Windows 8, you may need to set an environment variable OLD_WIN=1 or modify it in config.mk.

On Raspberry Pi, you can bootstrap via Racket.

By default, code generation is via Chez Scheme. You can use Racket instead, by setting the environment variable IDRIS2_CG=racket before running make. If you install Chez Scheme from source files, building it locally, make sure you run ./configure --threads to build multithreading support in.

NOTE: On FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD you need to use gmake command instead of make in the following steps.

NOTE: If you're running macOS on Apple Silicon (arm64) you may need to run "arch -x86_64 make ..." instead of make in the following steps.

1: Set the PREFIX

• Change the PREFIX in config.mk. The default is to install in $HOME/.idris2

If you have an existing Idris 2, go to Step 3. Otherwise, read on...

Make sure that:

• $PREFIX/bin is in your PATH
• $PREFIX/lib is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH if on macOS (so that the system knows where to look for library support code)

2: Installing without an existing Idris 2

You can build from pre-built Chez Scheme source, as long as you have Chez Scheme installed (or, alternatively, Racket). To do this, enter one of the following:

• make bootstrap SCHEME=chez
• make bootstrap-racket

chez is the executable name of the Chez Scheme compiler. You may need to replace this with the executable for Chez Scheme on your system. This could be scheme, chezscheme or chezscheme9.5 or something else, depending on your system and the Chez Scheme version.

This builds an Idris 2 compiler from scheme code output from a working Idris 2 compiler (which isn't necessarily up to date, but is up to date enough to build the current repository). It then rebuilds using the result, and runs the tests.

If all is well, to install, type:

• make install

3: Installing with an existing Idris 2

If you have an earlier version of Idris 2 (minimum version 0.2.2) installed:

• make all
• make install

4: (Optional) Self-hosting step

As a final step, you can rebuild from the newly installed Idris 2 to verify that everything has worked correctly. Assuming that idris2 is in your PATH.

• make clean -- to make sure you're building everything with the new version
• make all && make install

5: Running tests

After make all, type make test to check everything works. This uses the executable in ./build/exec.

6: (Optional) Installing the Idris 2 API

You'll only need this if you're developing support tools, such as an external code generator. To do so, once everything is successfully installed, type:

• make install-api

The API will only work if you've completed the self-hosting step, step 3, since the intermediate code versions need to be consistent throughout.

Troubleshooting

If you get the message variable make-thread-parameter is not bound while bootstrapping via Chez Scheme, or while running the tests when bootstrapping via Racket, then your copy of Chez Scheme was built without thread support. Pass --threads to ./configure while building Chez Scheme to correct the issue.

Installing from a package manager

Installing using Homebrew

If you are Homebrew user you can install Idris 2 together with all the requirements by running the following command:

brew install idris2

Installing from nix

If you are a nix user you can install Idris 2 together with all the requirements by running the following command:

nix-env -i idris2