LCool is a compiler for the Cool programming language that uses LLVM as its backend.

You need boost with the "program options" library, and LLVM to compile lcool.

This project is written in C++ and uses CMake as its build system. To compile and install it, run something like:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

Currently lcool only works with LLVM 3.8. LLVM is detected using CMake's config system. If you installed LLVM from your distribution's repository it should work (eg on Debian install llvm-3.8-dev). If you compiled LLVM manually, you may need to set the -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable to the root of your LLVM installation.

On older versions of Ubuntu (pre xenial), the CMake scripts are broken so you will get errors when running CMake. There is a workaround which you can activate by passing -DBROKEN_UBUNTU_LLVM=Y and -DLLVM_ROOT=/usr/lib/llvm-<version> to CMake.

Copyright (C) 2014-2016 James Cowgill

LCool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

LCool is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with LCool. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.