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Installation

You first need to download the flintc binary from the Releases page of the flintc repository or use the installer script if you are on Windows.

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:

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 (if it does not exist yet, i would highly recommend to create it) and you need to ensure it is marked as executable with this command:

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

After adding the flintc binary to the $HOME/.local/bin directory you should edit your $HOME/.bashrc file and ensure it contains the line

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"

And then you can simply use the compiler from any terminal like so:

flintc --help

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

Installation on Windows is pretty easy, it's just a one-line command:

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex (irm 'https://github.com/flint-lang/flint/releases/download/installer/flint_installer.ps1')"

Or if this one-liner scares you you can still download the installer directly and execute the downloaded script using the command

PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\flint_installer.ps1

The installer will always download the latest Flint release directly and add a wrapper command for it to always point at the correct latest compiler version. You can then use the compiler using

flintc.cmd --help

directly in any PowerShell. Note that the flintc.cmd command is only available in PowerShell, not in the command prompt.