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Bonzai

Installation

To get started with Bonzai, you first need to install it. At the time of writing, Bonzai is only available by cloning the repository and running it locally.

Note: Bonzai is still in development and is not yet available as a stable release. If you encounter any issues, please report them on the GitHub repository. Furthermore, the language might be only available for suitable Unix-based systems.

Dependencies

Before you can install Bonzai, you need to have the following dependencies installed:

  • Python 3 in order to run the build script that builds the programming language automatically.
  • Haskell with GHC 2021
  • XMake with a suitable version of the C compiler

Installation

To install Bonzai, follow these steps:

  1. Clone the repository:

    Terminal window
    git clone https://github.com/thomasvergne/bonzai
    cd bonzai

  2. Run the build script

    Terminal window
    python3 scripts/build.py

  3. Export the Bonzai binary path to your PATH and the Bonzai folder path to BONZAI_PATH

    Terminal window
    export BONZAI_PATH="/path/to/bonzai"
    export PATH="/path/to/bonzai/bin:$PATH"

  4. You’re all set! You can now run Bonzai by typing bonzaic in your terminal.