MPL "Fast" Compiler

MPL (previously MPL/Fast) is a programming language in active development since 2006. This repository contains a self-hosted MPL compiler.

Building

Because the MPL Compiler is self-hosted, you cannot build it without MPL Compiler. To help with bootstrapping, we provide precompiled mplc.ll files, see releases.

Prerequisites

• mplc - MPL Compiler binary
• clang - We use Clang binary as the single-entry LLVM optimizer and linker, it is possible to replace it with llvm-opt and a linker of your choice

Make sure both binaries are accessible with your path settings. For example, /usr/bin/mplc on Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\mpl\mplc.exe on Windows (you will need to add this folder to your user paths).

Build process

• Go to the build folder
• Execute the platform-specific build script, build.bat on Windows and build.sh on Linux. This will call both compile and link scripts, which produce LLVM IR (mplc.ll) and the resulting binary. If you are bootstrapping from the precompiled mplc.ll file, you can execute the link script, link.bat on Windows and link.sh on Linux

Usage

Please execute mplc to see the usage documentation.

Documentation

Documentation is a work in progress.