Notice that current version of this compiler generates MIPS code only, supports for Y86 machine code is not implemented yet.
- cmake
- Perl
- Flex
- Bison
- Spim (a MIPS simulator)
For macOS, you could use
brew install cmake flex bison spim perl
to install all these dependencies.
For Linux system, install dependencies referring to .travis.yml.
To build cool compiler:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make
To run functionality tests:
make cooltest
coolc example.cl -o example.s
spim -trap_file runtime/mips.handler -file example.s
Notice that on macOS, spim may give some warnings like:
The following symbols are undefined:
main
and this could be safely ignored.
- [Cool Manual] Cool language spec and implementation details.