Build or install from source

Setup¶

Before being able to compile the source code, you first have to download it from GitHub. Furthermore you need a common C++ compiler (preferably GCC) and CMake to build the compiler executable.

Clone from GitHub¶

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git clone https://github.com/spicelang/spice.git
cd spice

Run setup script for setting up your dev environment¶

To build Spice, you can use the dev-setup.sh for Linux or the dev-setup.bat for Windows. This will prepare your dev environment, install the correct LLVM version and builds the Spice executable for the first time to the bin directory.

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./dev-setup.sh

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.\dev-setup.bat

Use¶

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cd bin
spice [options] <input>