• Serene lang
  • Dependencies
  • Setup development environment
  • Build and installing dependencies (Other platforms)
• How to build
• How to Debug
• Cheatsheets
• More Info
• Get Help
• License

Serene lang

Serene is a modern typed lisp. It's not done and heavily under development.

Dependencies

Here is the list of dependencies that need to be present:

• LLVM (You can find the exact version in the builder script)
• CMake >= 3.19
• Ninja
• include-what-you-use
• Valgrind (Optional and only for development)
• CCache (If you want faster builds, specially with the LLVM)
• Boehm GC v8.2.2 make sure to build in statically with -fPIC flag.
• zstd (Only if you want to use prebuilt dependencies on Linux)
• Musl libc v1.2.3 (It's not required but highly recommended)
• libc++ (same version as LLVM abviously. It's not required but highly recommended)
• compiler-rt (same version as LLVM abviously. It's not required but highly recommended)

If you are using Linux (x86_64 only), then you're in luck. The builder script will download the required toolchain automatically for you and set it up. So, you can just use builder subcommands to develop serene.

You can disable this behaviour by setting the USE_SERENE_TOOLCHAIN env variable to anything beside "true".

Serene build system uses Musl, libc++, and compiler-rt to generate a static binary. You can use glibc, libgcc, and libstdc++ instead. But you might not be able to cross compiler with Serene and also if anything happen to you, I might not be able to help (I'll try for sure).

Setup development environment

Before, you have to set up the necessary git hooks as follows:

./builder setup

Build and installing dependencies (Other platforms)

Currently, the builder script does not support any platform beside GNU/Linux. So, you need to build the dependencies yourself and make them available to the builder.

By the way, If you are interested, you can just hack the builder script and accommodate your platform and contribute your changes to the project.

To build the dependencies in your platform, you can use the https://devheroes.codes/Serene/bootstrap-toolchain repo as a reference or even modify it to support other platforms. Any contribution will be appreciated.

How to build

To build for development (Debug mode) just use ./builder build to setup the build system, and build the project once, and then you can just use ./builder compile to build the changed files only.

Check out the builder script for more subcommands and details.

How to Debug

Since we're using the Boehm GC, to use a debugger, we need to turn off some of the signal handlers that the debugger sets. To run the debugger (by default, lldb) with serenec just use the lldb-run subcommand of the builder script. In the debugger, after setting the break point on the main function (b main) then use the following commands on:

 process handle -p yes -s no -n no SIGPWR
 process handle -p yes -s no -n no SIGXCPU
 process handle -p yes -s no -n no SIGSEGV

Cheatsheets

• Modern C++ Cheatsheet

More Info

• Website: https://serene-lang.org
• CI: https://ci.devheroes.codes/Serene/serene

Get Help

If you need help, or you just want to hang out, you can find us at:

• IRC: #serene-lang on the libera chat server
• Matrix: https://app.element.io/#/room/#serene:matrix.org
• MailingList: https://www.freelists.org/list/serene

License

Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Sameer Rahmani <lxsameer@gnu.org>

Serene is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.