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# Building the Roc compiler from source
## Installing LLVM, Zig, valgrind, and Python
To build the compiler, you need these installed:
* [Zig](https://ziglang.org/), see below for version
* `libxkbcommon` - macOS seems to have it already; on Ubuntu or Debian you can get it with `apt-get install libxkbcommon-dev`
* On Debian/Ubuntu `sudo apt-get install pkg-config`
* LLVM, see below for version
To run the test suite (via `cargo test`), you additionally need to install:
* [`valgrind`](https://www.valgrind.org/) (needs special treatment to [install on macOS](https://stackoverflow.com/a/61359781)
Alternatively, you can use `cargo test --no-fail-fast` or `cargo test -p specific_tests` to skip over the valgrind failures & tests.
For debugging LLVM IR, we use [DebugIR](https://github.com/vaivaswatha/debugir). This dependency is only required to build with the `--debug` flag, and for normal developtment you should be fine without it.
### libcxb libraries
You may see an error like this during builds:
```
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-render
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-shape
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-xfixes
```
If so, you can fix it like so:
```
sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev
```
### Zig
**version: 0.8.0**
For any OS, you can use [`zigup`](https://github.com/marler8997/zigup) to manage zig installations.
If you prefer a package manager, you can try the following:
- For MacOS, you can install with `brew install zig`
- For, Ubuntu, you can use Snap, you can install with `snap install zig --classic --beta`
- For other systems, checkout this [page](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Install-Zig-from-a-Package-Manager)
If you want to install it manually, you can also download Zig directly [here](https://ziglang.org/download/). Just make sure you download the right version, the bleeding edge master build is the first download link on this page.
### LLVM
**version: 12.0.x**
For macOS, you can install LLVM 12 using `brew install llvm@12` and then adding
`$(brew --prefix llvm@12)/bin` to your `PATH`. You can confirm this worked by
running `llc --version` - it should mention "LLVM version 12.0.0" at the top.
You may also need to manually specify a prefix env var like so:
```
export LLVM_SYS_120_PREFIX=/usr/local/opt/llvm@12
```
For Ubuntu and Debian:
```
sudo apt -y install lsb-release software-properties-common gnupg
wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
chmod +x llvm.sh
./llvm.sh 12
```
If you use this script, you'll need to add `clang` and `llvm-as` to your `PATH`.
By default, the script installs them as `clang-12` and `llvm-as-12`,
respectively. You can address this with symlinks like so:
```
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-12 /usr/bin/clang
```
```
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-as-12 /usr/bin/llvm-as
````
There are also alternative installation options at http://releases.llvm.org/download.html
[Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
### Building
Use `cargo build` to build the whole project.
Use `cargo run help` to see all subcommands.
To use the `repl` subcommand, execute `cargo run repl`.
## Using Nix
### Install
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Create an issue if you run into problems not listed here.
That will help us improve this document for everyone who reads it in the future!
## Manual Install
To build the compiler, you need these installed:
* [Zig](https://ziglang.org/), see below for version
* `libxkbcommon` - macOS seems to have it already; on Ubuntu or Debian you can get it with `apt-get install libxkbcommon-dev`
* On Debian/Ubuntu `sudo apt-get install pkg-config`
* LLVM, see below for version
To run the test suite (via `cargo test`), you additionally need to install:
* [`valgrind`](https://www.valgrind.org/) (needs special treatment to [install on macOS](https://stackoverflow.com/a/61359781)
Alternatively, you can use `cargo test --no-fail-fast` or `cargo test -p specific_tests` to skip over the valgrind failures & tests.
For debugging LLVM IR, we use [DebugIR](https://github.com/vaivaswatha/debugir). This dependency is only required to build with the `--debug` flag, and for normal developtment you should be fine without it.
### libcxb libraries
You may see an error like this during builds:
```
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-render
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-shape
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-xfixes
```
If so, you can fix it like so:
```
sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev
```
### Zig
**version: 0.8.0**
For any OS, you can use [`zigup`](https://github.com/marler8997/zigup) to manage zig installations.
If you prefer a package manager, you can try the following:
- For MacOS, you can install with `brew install zig`
- For, Ubuntu, you can use Snap, you can install with `snap install zig --classic --beta`
- For other systems, checkout this [page](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Install-Zig-from-a-Package-Manager)
If you want to install it manually, you can also download Zig directly [here](https://ziglang.org/download/). Just make sure you download the right version, the bleeding edge master build is the first download link on this page.
### LLVM
**version: 12.0.x**
For macOS, you can install LLVM 12 using `brew install llvm@12` and then adding
`$(brew --prefix llvm@12)/bin` to your `PATH`. You can confirm this worked by
running `llc --version` - it should mention "LLVM version 12.0.0" at the top.
You may also need to manually specify a prefix env var like so:
```
export LLVM_SYS_120_PREFIX=/usr/local/opt/llvm@12
```
For Ubuntu and Debian:
```
sudo apt -y install lsb-release software-properties-common gnupg
wget https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh
chmod +x llvm.sh
./llvm.sh 12
```
If you use this script, you'll need to add `clang` and `llvm-as` to your `PATH`.
By default, the script installs them as `clang-12` and `llvm-as-12`,
respectively. You can address this with symlinks like so:
```
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-12 /usr/bin/clang
```
```
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-as-12 /usr/bin/llvm-as
````
There are also alternative installation options at http://releases.llvm.org/download.html
[Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
### Building
Use `cargo build` to build the whole project.
Use `cargo run help` to see all subcommands.
To use the `repl` subcommand, execute `cargo run repl`.
### LLVM installation on Linux
For a current list of all dependency versions and their names in apt, see the Earthfile.