Building and installing

Requirements

• Since this is built with Zig, you should be able to build buzz on a wide variety of architectures even though this has only been tested on x86/M1.
• Linux or macOS (Windows support is coming)
• libc
• zig master (exact version here)

Build

1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz <buzz_dir>
2. Checkout submodules: git submodule update --init
3. Build MIR:

cd vendors/mir
make

4. Have fun:

• zig build run -- <myscript.buzz> to run a script
• zig build run to start the REPL

Install

# install locally at ~/.local
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p ~/.local

# install globally at /usr/local
sudo zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p /usr/local

If you're usage if performance critical (game dev for example), you can build using -Doptimize=ReleaseFast.

Remember to modify PATH to include the bin directory where it is installed. For example, export PATH=PATH:/home/xxx/.local/bin. You can then run buzz with buzz <myscript.buzz>.

Additionally, install the VS Code extension to get syntax highlighting. If you don't use VS Code but your editor supports TextMate grammar files, you can use that.