Compiling the Compiler

Warning

Nearly all the information on this page is now outdated as the compiler is being upgraded from Rust to C++ before being able to self host.

On Windows

Requirements:

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.91^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM
• The libxml2 requirement for LLVM seems to be missing on Windows, luckily you can download it with vcpkg install libxml2:x64-windows. Once it’s downloaded, rename the file from libxml2 to libxml2s and put it in your llvm/lib folder.
  • If you need vcpkg click here.

You’ll want to make sure Rust is installed fully. I’ve found that installing it globally just takes care of a lot of potential issues. Make sure the LLVM/bin folder is added to your path as well. On top of that, you’ll want to make a new system variable:

Once you have Rust and LLVM set up you shouldn’t really need anything else! Just navigate to the ksl source code root directory and run cargo build or cargo build --release.

It sounds pretty simple but some of the config stuff can take a while to figure out, I’d say this process could take anywhere between 30 minutes and few hours, depending on your technical skills. Don’t get discouraged if it takes a while.

On Linux

Note

Documentation help wanted! The Linux build instructions are not finalized and may depend on distro, any contributions would be great!

Requirements:

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.91^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM

llvm package on arch and fedora

On MacOS

Note

Documentation help wanted! The MacOS build instructions are not finalized. Any contributions toward this section would be super helpful!

Requirements:

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.91^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM