Getting Started

There are several options to install the Metro Compiler.

Install Via Package Manager#

At the moment, we only provide a package for Arch Linux.

Arch Linux#

You can obtain a prebuilt Arch Linux package from the latest release on GitHub.

  1. Download metroc-$VERSION-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  2. Install using Pacman:
    pacman -U metroc-$VERSION-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  3. You can use the compiler at /usr/bin/metroc

Install the Binary#

You can download a precompiled binary for Linux AMD64 operating systems from the latest release on GitHub.

Build From Source#

If your operating system is not supported, or you would like to develop on the compiler itself, than you can build Metro from source.

You can get a copy of the compiler source code from GitHub.

The language compiler is written in Haskell, and should be able to compile on Unix-based operating systems. You will also need the Cabal build tool.

After obtaining both, you can build the compiler using:

cabal build
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