Compiling the Compiler

On Windows

Requirements:

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.87^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM
• The libxml2 requirement for LLVM seems to be missing on Windows, luckily you can download it with vcpkg install libxml2:x64-windows. Once it's downloaded, rename the file from libxml2 to libxml2s and put it in your llvm/lib folder.
  • If you need vcpkg click here.

You'll want to make sure Rust is installed fully. I've found that installing it globally just takes care of a lot of potential issues. Make sure the LLVM/bin folder is added to your path as well. On top of that, you'll want to make a new system variable:

Once you have Rust and LLVM set up you shouldn't really need anything else! Just navigate to the ksl source code root directory and run cargo build or cargo build --release.

It sounds pretty simple but some of the config stuff can take a while to figure out, I'd say this process could take anywhere between 30 minutes and few hours, depending on your technical skills. Don't get discouraged if it takes a while.

On Linux

Requirements:

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.87^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM

On MacOS

• KSL Source Code
• Rust 1.87^: Download Rust
• LLVM 18.1.x: Download LLVM