Installation

Linux

The Flint language packages are published to some package managers on Linux, but they are all statically compiled binaries, so manual installation is not that hard either.

Arch

The Flint packages have been published to the AUR. The PKGBUILD is just a small wrapper which downloads the correct binary and puts it into the right path (/usr/bin/). To download and install the flintc-bin package with the AUR helper of your choice:

paru -Sy flintc-bin

You may need to restart your shell for the binary to become available after installation.

Fedora

The Flint packages have been published to a COPR repository. To install the Flint compiler you first need to add the COPR repository to dnf and then you can install the package:

sudo dnf copr enable zweiler1/flintc
sudo dnf install flintc

You may need to restart your shell for the binary to become available after installation.

Nixpkgs

The Flint compiler is still a work in progress to get published on nixpkgs, use manual installation for now.

Ubuntu

I simply cannot publish anything on Launchpad since I never recieve the verification E-Mail, no matter what I try. I would appreciate some help if you have some experience with launching packages on Launchpad.

Manual 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.

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

Windows

You can either install the Flint compiler using winget or install it manually.

Winget

The Flint packages have been published on the winget repository, which makes installing them very easy on Windows:

winget install Flint.Flintc

You may need to restart your shell for the executable to become available after installation.

Manual installation

"Manual" installation is to use the old one-line install method I had before pushing the packages to Winget:

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 it to your path variable. You can then use the compiler using

flintc --help

directly in any PowerShell or CommandPrompt. The executable is available in every directory you are in. A restart may be required.