Installation

Installing Flint is really easy. Just download the flintc binary for your given platform from the Releases page of the flintc repository.

Linux

To make the Flint compiler available from any path in your terminal, and to make it executable through just calling flintc in your terminal, you need to copy the flintc executable into the $HOME/.local/bin/ directory and you need to ensure it is marked as executable with this command:

chmod +x $HOME/.local/bin/flintc

You need base-devel (Arch) or build-essential (Ubuntu) in order for the Flint compiler to be able to compile any program. It needs the crt1.o, crti.o and crtn.o files available to it.

Windows

It is actively worked on an installer (.msi file) which will download the compiler for you and will set the PATH variable accordingly. Until then, the path to the executable (flintc.exe) needs to be specified manually when compiling a Flint program.