Project Emerald

Overview

An educational attempt to invent a programming language called Emerald. This repository will include everything related this. The main part of this is the Emerald compiler. This may expand to include tooling also.

Language Overview

Tech Stack & Dependencies

The compiler itself will start in C++ (in the far-flung future maybe we will build the compiler in Emerald but this is a far off dream for now), and will use various homebrew C++ libraries of my own for certain aspects. The main thing here is that we most of the compiler sections will be written from scratch not using any lexing or parsing frameworks.

Currently, this supports linux only and uses nasm and ld to assemble and link the final programs. The compiler uses the CMake build system.

Compiler Development

To build the compiler checkout the source code use

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pmann84/Emerald.git

to pull down the submodule dependencies. If you forget you can use

git clone https://github.com/pmann84/Emerald.git
cd Emerald
git submodule update --init --recursive

Then to configure and build use the provided CMake files in the root of the project. For Linux you can use whatever your CMake defaults are but on Windows you will need to install a WSL instance of Ubuntu or something and build it on that.