Building Felix From Source

To build Felix from source you need to run one of these commands:

bash on OSX using clang:

. buildscript/osxsetup.sh
make

Notes: OSX10 comes with a old clang. I upgraded from the provider website directly. C++11 support is required. Please use libc++, clang's library, NOT libstdc++, gcc's library. clang 3.7 works. [It is also possible to build with gcc5 but you should bootstrap with clang first]

bash on Linux using gcc>5:

. buildscript/linuxsetup.sh 
make

[It is also possible to build with clang, but you should bootstrap with gcc first]

Console on Windows with

• Visual Studio 14 environment variables set up

• 64 but Windows ocaml installed

• Python3 on path

  buildscript\winsetup.bat nmake

On Appveyor we do this to effect the setup:

install:

• call "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
• git clone -q https://github.com/felix-lang/win64ocaml.git
• move win64ocaml c:\ocaml
• set PATH=C:\Python35-x64;c:\ocaml\bin;%PATH%
• set PWD=.
• set PATH=build\release\host\bin;build\release\host\lib\rtl;%PATH%
• set FLX_MIN_MEM=10000

If you have the "free" compilers you will have to use the 32->64 bit cross compiler tools instead. Be warned standard vsvarsall.bat has a bug and doesn't setup the correct environment for 32->64 cross compiler.

Cygwin64: Just pretend you're running Linux.