Follow the steps below to install and run LPython on Linux, Windows or macOS.

• Install Conda

  Follow the instructions provided here to install Conda on your platform (Linux, macOS and Windows) using a conda-forge distribution called Miniforge.

  For Windows, these are additional requirements:

  • Miniforge Prompt
  • Visual Studio (with "Desktop Development with C++" workload)

• Set up your system

  • Linux

    • Run the following command to install some global build dependencies:

      sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-dev clang zlib1g-dev

  • Windows

    • Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Community for free.

    • Run the Visual Studio Installer. Download and install the "Desktop Development with C++" workload which will install the Visual C++ Compiler (MSVC).

    • Launch the Miniforge prompt from the Desktop. It is recommended to use MiniForge instead of Powershell as the main terminal to build and write code for LPython. In the MiniForge Prompt, initialize the MSVC compiler using the below command:

      call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd" -arch=x64

      You can optionally test MSVC via:

      cl /?
      link /?

      Both commands must print several pages of help text.

  • Windows with WSL

    • Install Miniforge Prompt and add it to path:

      wget  https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-Linux-x86_64.sh -O miniconda.sh
      bash miniconda.sh -b -p $HOME/conda_root
      export PATH="$HOME/conda_root/bin:$PATH"
      conda init bash # (shell name)

    • Open a new terminal window and run the following commands to install dependencies:

      conda create -n lp -c conda-forge llvmdev=11.0.1 bison=3.4 re2c python cmake make toml clangdev git

    • Optionally, you can change the directory to a Windows location using cd /mnt/[drive letter]/[windows location]. For e.g. - cd mnt/c/Users/name/source/repos/.

• Clone the LPython repository

  Make sure you have git installed. Type the following command to clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/lcompilers/lpython.git
  cd lpython

  You may also use GitHub Desktop to do the same.

• Linux and macOS

  • Create a Conda environment:

    conda env create -f environment_unix.yml
    conda activate lp

  • Generate the prerequisite files and build in Debug Mode:

    # if you are developing on top of a forked repository; please run following command first
    # ./generate_default_tag.sh
    
    
    ./build0.sh
    ./build1.sh

• Windows

  • Create a Conda environment using the pre-existing file:

    conda env create -f environment_win.yml
    conda activate lp

  • Generate the prerequisite files and build in Release Mode:

    call build0.bat
    call build1.bat

• Windows with WSL

  • Activate the Conda environment:

    conda activate lp

  • Run the following commands to build the project:

    ./build0.sh
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_LLVM=yes -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`pwd`/inst .\
    make -j8

• Linux and macOS

  • Run tests:

    ctest
    ./run_tests.py

  • Update test references:

    ./run_tests.py -u
    

  • Run integration tests:

    cd integration_tests
    ./run_tests.py

  • In case you have recently updated macOS, you may get a warning like below in some test cases:

    ld: warning: object file (test_list_index2.out.tmp.o) was built for newer macOS version (14.0) than being linked (13.3)

    This leads to mismatch of hashes with expected output in some test cases, this can be resolved by updating command line tools:

    git clean -dfx
    sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools # make sure you know what you're doing here
    sudo xcode-select --install
    ./build.sh
    ./run_tests.py

  • Speed up Integration Tests on macOS

    Integration tests run slowly because Apple checks the hash of each executable online before running.

    You can turn off that feature in the Privacy tab of the Security and Privacy item of System Preferences > Developer Tools > Terminal.app > "allow the apps below to run software locally that does not meet the system's security policy."

• Windows

  • Run integration tests

    python run_tests.py --skip-run-with-dbg

  • Update reference tests

    python run_tests.py -u --skip-run-with-dbg

You can run the following examples manually in a terminal:

./src/bin/lpython examples/expr2.py
./src/bin/lpython examples/expr2.py -o expr
./expr
./src/bin/lpython --show-ast examples/expr2.py
./src/bin/lpython --show-asr examples/expr2.py
./src/bin/lpython --show-cpp examples/expr2.py
./src/bin/lpython --show-llvm examples/expr2.py
./src/bin/lpython --show-c examples/expr2.py

Please report any bugs you find at our issue tracker here. Or, even better, fork the repository on GitHub and create a Pull Request (PR).

We welcome all changes, big or small. We will help you make a PR if you are new to git.

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