A programming language to make programming easier.

Usage

diamond build [program file]
    Creates a native executable from the program.

diamond run [program file]
    Runs the program.

diamond emit [options] [program file]
    This command emits intermediary representations of
    the program. Is useful for debugging the compiler.

    The options are:
        --tokens
        --ast
        --ast-with-types
        --ast-with-concrete-types
        --llvm-ir
        --obj

Dependencies

diamond uses the following dependencies:

• LLD 15
• LLVM 15
• Python 3 (for build.py and test.py)
• clang (for compiling)

The only dependencies that must be installed are Clang and Python.

Windows

To install Clang on Windows you must install Visual Studio, follow this steps, and when choosing components also select Clang.

macOs

Also, on macOS at least the prebuilt version of LLVM needs zstd to be installed.

Building

To get LLVM you can run get_llvm.py. This script download LLVM prebuilt binaries, extract them and save them in deps inside llvm.

Then to build diamond you can use build.py.

So to get llvm you would run:

./get_llvm.py

And to build diamond:

./build.py

Optionally you can pass to build.py a path to a llvm-config binary. This way you can use a LLVM installation build from source, or a LLVM installation installed with a package manager.

Building on Windows

To have Clang availaible in the PATH you must run the commands on a x64 Native Tools Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 command prompt.

The you can run commands:

python get_llvm.py

And to build diamond:

python build.py