Installation

At this point Fe is only available for Linux and MacOS.

Note: If you happen to be a Windows developer, consider getting involved and help us to support the Windows platform. Here would be a good place to start.

Download the compiler

At this point Fe is only distributed via a single executable file linked from the home page. In the future we will make sure it can be installed through popular package managers such as apt or homebrew.

Depending on your operating system, the file that you download is either named fe_amd64 or fe_mac.

Note: We will rename the file to fe and assume that name for the rest of the guide. In the future when Fe can be installed via other mechanisms we can assume fe to become the canonical command name.

Add permission to execute

In order to be able to execute the Fe compiler we will have to make the file executable. This can be done by navigating to the directory where the file is located and executing chmod + x <filename> (e.g. chmod +x fe).

After we have set the proper permissions we should be able to run ./fe_amd64 --help or ./fe_mac -h and an output that should be roughly comparable to:

Fe 0.4.0-alpha
Compiler for the Fe language

USAGE:
    fe_amd64 [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <input>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help         Prints help information
        --overwrite    Overwrite contents of output directory`
    -V, --version      Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -e, --emit <emit>                Comma separated compile targets e.g. -e=bytecode,yul [default: abi,bytecode]
                                     [possible values: abi, bytecode, ast, tokens, yul, loweredAst]
        --optimize <optimize>        Whether the Yul optimizer should be used or not e.g. --optimize=false [default: true]
    -o, --output-dir <output-dir>    The directory to store the compiler output e.g /tmp/output [default: output]

ARGS:
    <input>    The input source file to use e.g erc20.fe