Getting Started

This section explains how to get started with Arc-Lang.

Prerequisites

The following dependencies are required to build Arc-Lang from source:

• CMake
• Clang
• Ninja
• Rust

macOS

On macOS, dependencies can be installed with:

brew install cmake ninja clang
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Ubuntu

On Ubuntu, dependencies can be installed with:

sudo apt install cmake ninja-build clang
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Installation

To install Arc-Lang, clone the repo and run the build script:

git clone https://github.com/cda-group/arc/
cd arc
git submodule update --init --recursive
./build

The build script installs the arc command-line utility along with the arc-sys library.

Hello World

Arc-Lang files have the .arc file extension. For example:

# hello-world.arc

def main() = print(
"Hello World"
)

To execute the above program, run:

arc run hello-world.arc