Lilac

Experimental interpreter written from scratch in c

• based on Thorsten Ball's "Writing An Interpreter In Go - Monkey Lang"

lilac_lexer-2024-10-12_21.14.41.mp4

lilac_parser-2024-10-12_21.21.23.mp4

setup

Build Deps

• clang > 18.1.8
• wget

Build

• make deps to setup include file deps
• make or make all to build the app in out/

Dev Env

• uses bear to build compilation_database for lsp
  • make compile-db

Testing

• make test builds the test_runner in out/, then just run it with ./out/test_runner
• Lilac uses greatest for the test suites
  • so separate test suites can be ran via -s flag with many other options

usage

Build the binary output with make command.

For lexer output:

./out/lilac --lexer

For parser output:

./out/lilac --parser