Aro

Aro

A C compiler with the goal of providing fast compilation and low memory usage with good diagnostics.

The project intends to support standard C and all common extensions:

Aro will be used as the C frontend for C to Zig translation in the Zig toolchain.

Codegen

Earlier there was a proof of concept backend capable of producing a valid hello world binary but it was removed to make way for a new more capable backend which is still under construction. The new backend will reuse parts of the self-hosted Zig compiler.

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Using aro as a module

The following assumes that your package has a build.zig.zon file.

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/Vexu/arocc.git

Add the following to your build.zig:

constaro=b.dependency("aro",.{.target=target,.optimize=optimize,});exe.root_module.addImport("aro",aro.module("aro"));// Optional; this will make aro's builtin includes (the `include` directory of this repo) available to `Toolchain`b.installDirectory(.{.source_dir=aro.path("include"),.install_dir=.prefix,.install_subdir="include",});

Now you can do

constaro=@import("aro");

in your Zig code.