Ez

An ez language implemented with OCaml, Cpp and LLVM.

Requirements

• LLVM 18.1
• opam 2.2
• libprotoc 28.3

Building

• Clone the repo and init the switch

git clone https://github.com/glyh/ez
cd ez
opam switch create . --deps-only --with-test -y

• For developing, you may want to have LSP and other stuffs available

opam install --switch=. -y ocamlformat ocaml-lsp-server utop ocaml-protoc

• Update the environment, for example if you're on bash:

eval $(opam env)

• Build both frontend and backend with

make

Running

./compile ./examples/fib.ez

References

Code Generation

• A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators
• My First Language Frontend with LLVM Tutorial — LLVM 20.0.0git documentation
• MarkLeone/WeekendCompiler: An example LLVM-based compiler for a subset of C.