frenetic-lang/frenetic

Frenetic VM link is not Working

madiha005 opened this issue · 3 comments

madiha005 commented

Hello everyone,
I am trying to get the frenetic user-vm file that has all the necessary prerequisites for starting with frenetic programming but the link provided on programmer guide and Wiki is not working.

http://download.frenetic-lang.org/uservm/frenetic-uservm-current

Can any one help me in knowing which link to use or how to download frenetic ?

smolkaj commented

AFAIK there is no VM available at the moment, unfortunately.
You can try building frenetic from source instead, following the instructions from the README.
This is a bit tricky at the moment because there is an issue with a library we depend on, and we're waiting on a fix (see #628, ocaml-community/sedlex#72). Here is a temporary workaround:

  1. Check out the branch fixes. 
    git clone -b fixes https://github.com/frenetic-lang/frenetic.git
  2. Follow steps 1-3 of the installation instructions in the README on that branch.
  3. Build the newest version of sedlex from source (since it hasn't been released yet): 
    git clone -b release https://github.com/ocaml-community/sedlex.git
opam pin add -y sedlex sedlex
  4. Build frenetic and its dependencies: 
    opam pin add -y frenetic <path to frenetic root>
madiha005 commented

@smolkaj Thankyou for the reply . Really appreciated. I will try this way.

smolkaj commented

The fixes are now merged in, so it should be straightforward to build the master branch of frenetic from source following the instruction in the README.