Dalim - DEX nim backend

This repository contains work in progress of a nim compiler with a dex backend.

DEX is the assembly language used by the dalvik virtual machine. In android system it is used to represent the bytecode produced by java compilers.

This is not the offical nim github page For the real nim-lang, please use link below

NIM-lang

The DEX assembler that is being targeted.
Dali

Plan

The aims are currently humble, and consist of firstly compiling simple programs.

Compiling

Compiling the Nim compiler is quite straightforward if you follow these steps:

First, the C source of an older version of the Nim compiler is needed to bootstrap the latest version because the Nim compiler itself is written in the Nim programming language. Those C sources are available within the [nim-lang/csources][csources-repo] repository.

Next, to build from source you will need:

• A C compiler such as gcc 3.x/later or an alternative such as clang, Visual C++ or Intel C++. It is recommended to use gcc 3.x or later.
• Either git or wget to download the needed source repositories.
• The build-essential package when using gcc on Ubuntu (and likely other distros as well).

Then, if you are on a *nix system or Windows, the following steps should compile Nim from source using gcc, git and the koch build tool.

Note: The following commands are for the development version of the compiler. For most users, installing the latest stable version is enough. Check out the installation instructions on the website to do so: https://nim-lang.org/install.html.

For package mantainers: see packaging guidelines.

# step 1:
git clone https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git
cd Nim

# step 2 (posix) clones `csources.git`, bootstraps Nim compiler and compiles tools
sh build_all.sh

# step 2 (windows)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources.git

cd csources
# requires `gcc` in your PATH, see also https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html
build.bat # x86 Windows
build64.bat # x86_64 Windows
cd ..

bin\nim c koch
koch boot -d:release
koch tools # Compile Nimble and other tools
# end of step 2 (windows)

Finally, once you have finished the build steps (on Windows, Mac or Linux) you should add the bin directory to your PATH.

Koch

koch is the build tool used to build various parts of Nim and to generate documentation and the website, among other things. The koch tool can also be used to run the Nim test suite.

Assuming that you added Nim's bin directory to your PATH, you may execute the tests using ./koch tests. The tests take a while to run, but you can run a subset of tests by specifying a category (for example ./koch tests cat async).

For more information on the koch build tool please see the documentation within the doc/koch.rst file.

Nimble

nimble is Nim's package manager. To learn more about it, see the [nim-lang/nimble][nimble-repo] repository.

Usage

Bear in mind that this is work in progress, but the usage will be something along these lines.

bin/nim dex --skipcfg fib.nim

In order to get as few moving parts as possible the standard library is not included when build DEX for the time being.

Furthermore to get to the bare essentials --skipcfg is recommended. This to get the minimal surface for implementing the DEX backend.

Currently prints out a subset of the AST. More to come shortly!

License

The compiler and the standard library are licensed under the MIT license, except for some modules which explicitly state otherwise. As a result you may use any compatible license (essentially any license) for your own programs developed with Nim. You are explicitly permitted to develop commercial applications using Nim.

Please read the copying.txt file for more details.

Copyright © 2006-2019 Andreas Rumpf, all rights reserved.