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

Optional: set c3c as a global environment variable¶

1. copy the folder
2. navigate to C:\Program Files
3. paste the folder here
4. navigate inside the folder you've pasted
5. copy the path of the folder
6. search for "edit the system environment variables" on your computer
7. click on the "environment variables" button on the bottom right
8. under "user variables" double click on "path"
9. click on "new" and paste the path to the folder
10. run c3c anywhere on 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 unless a C compiler is available.

Linux users should generally install GCC or Clang, according to their distribution's documentation. Below is a list of officially tested distributions and the minimum packages required to compile and link C3 programs:

On MacOS, you can either install XCode or download the stand-alone command-line tools.