Install C3 Compiler Binary

Prebuilt binaries

• Installing on Windows
• Installing on Mac Arm64
• Installing on Ubuntu
• Installing on Debian
• Installing on Arch

Installing on Windows

1. Download the C3 compiler. Or the debug build .
2. Unzip it into a folder
3. Either Visual Studio 17 or follow the next two steps.
4. Run the msvc_build_libraries.py Python script which will download the necessary files to compile on Windows.

Running the Python script

If you don’t have Python installed, you can download it from the Python Website. or get it from the the Microsoft Store

Afterwards you can double click the msvc_build_libraries.py file and pick “python” from the list of programs in the “Select an app to open this .py file” window.

Optional: set c3c as a global environment variable

5. copy the folder
6. navigate to C:\Program Files
7. paste the folder here
8. navigate inside the folder you’ve pasted
9. copy the path of the folder
10. search for “edit the system environment variables” on your computer
11. click on the “environment variables” button on the bottom right
12. under “user variables” double click on “path”
13. click on “new” and paste the path to the folder
14. run c3c on anywhere in your computer!

c3c compile ./hello.c3

Installing on Mac Arm64

1. Make sure you have XCode with command line tools installed.
2. Download the C3 compiler. Or the debug build .
3. Unzip executable and standard lib.
4. Run ./c3c.

Installing on Ubuntu

1. Download the C3 compiler. Or the debug build .
2. Unpack executable and standard lib.
3. Run ./c3c.

Installing on Debian

1. Download the C3 compiler. Or the debug build .
2. Unpack executable and standard lib.
3. Run ./c3c.

Installing on Arch Linux

There is an AUR package for the c3c compiler : c3c-git.

You can use your AUR package manager:

paru -S c3c-git
# or yay -S c3c-git
# or aura -A c3c-git

Or clone it manually:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/c3c-git.git
cd c3c-git
makepkg -si

Troubleshooting

Note: If you get an error like No module named 'std::io' could be found, you may need to set the C3C_LIB environment variable to point to the standard library location:

Bash/Zsh:

export C3C_LIB=/path/to/c3c/lib

Fish:

set -gx C3C_LIB /path/to/c3c/lib

Windows (PowerShell):

$env:C3C_LIB = "C:\path\to\c3c\lib"

“cc: not found”

On Linux and MacOS, C3 uses the available C compiler to link with the correct libraries. While C3 contains a built-in linker, it is likely that your system will lack a complete environment with unless a C compiler is available.

Linux users should generally install GCC or Clang, according to their distribution’s documentation. For example, if you use Ubuntu, you can install the gcc package:

sudo apt-get install gcc

On MacOS you can either install XCode or download the stand-alone command-line tools: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/installing-the-command-line-tools/