Installing The Pizfix Distribution

The most unobtrusive way to try out Fil-C is using a pizfix slice binary release.

Fil-C currently only supports Linux/X86_64.

Download And Install

You can download binary releases from the Fil-C GitHub. The Pizfix slice binary releases are named filc-0.673-linux-x86_64.tar.xz.

Once you download a release and unpack it, simply run:

./setup.sh

from the directory that you unpacked it to (for example /home/pizlo/filc-0.673-linux-x86_64). At that point, you can run the compiler using build/bin/clang or build/bin/clang++ (or via absolute path, for example /home/pizlo/filc-0.673-linux-x86_64/build/bin/clang).

This kind of Fil-C installation operates using the pizfix slice: the Fil-C libraries are in the pizfix/lib directory, and the headers are in pizfix/include. The compiler automatically knows how to find those headers and libraries, and will link programs in such a way that they will look for their dependent shared libraries there.

The pizfix binary releases of Fil-C use musl as the libc.

Try It Out

Consider this simple C program; let's call it hello.c:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("Hello from Fil-C!\n");
    return 0;
}

You can compile it using <path to Fil-C>/build/bin/clang like so:

build/bin/clang -O2 -g -o hello hello.c

Similarly C++ just works:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    cout << "Hello!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

This builds with clang++ like so:

build/bin/clang++ -O2 -g -o hello hello.cpp