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The homebrew version is currently woefully out of date. We are transitioning to a new release system that will keep homebrew up to date. For now, please build from source.

$ brew update 
$ brew install ponyc

layman -a stefantalpalaru
emerge dev-lang/pony

A live ebuild is also available in the overlay (dev-lang/pony-9999) and for Vim users there's app-vim/pony-syntax.

We're transitioning to a new binary release system. For now, please build from source.

You will need to build from source.

First, install LLVM 3.6.2, 3.7.1 or 3.8 using your package manager. You may need to install zlib, ncurses, pcre2, and ssl as well. Instructions for some specific distributions follow.

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources:

deb http://llvm.org/apt/jessie/ llvm-toolchain-jessie-3.8 main
deb-src http://llvm.org/apt/jessie/ llvm-toolchain-jessie-3.8 main

$ sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ git zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libssl-dev
llvm-3.8-dev

Debian Jesse and some other Linux distributions don't include pcre2 in their package manager. pcre2 is used by the Pony regex package. To download and build pcre2 from source:

$ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre2-10.21.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf pcre2-10.21.tar.bz2
$ cd pcre2-10.21
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

To build ponyc and compile helloworld:

$ make config=release
$ ./build/release/ponyc examples/helloworld

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git llvm-dev \
                       zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libssl-dev

Ubuntu 15.10 and some other Linux distributions don't include pcre2 in their package manager. pcre2 is used by the Pony regex package. To download and build pcre2 from source:

$ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre2-10.21.tar.bz2
$ tar xvf pcre2-10.21.tar.bz2
$ cd pcre2-10.21
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

To build ponyc and compile helloworld:

$ make config=release
$ ./build/release/ponyc examples/helloworld

Please note that the LLVM 3.8 apt packages do not include debug symbols. As a result, the ponyc config=debug build fails when using those packages. If you need a debug compiler built with LLVM 3.8, you will need to build LLVM from source.

First, install the required dependencies:

sudo pkg install gmake
sudo pkg install llvm38
sudo pkg install pcre2
sudo pkg install libunwind

This will build ponyc and compile helloworld:

$ make config=release
$ ./build/release/ponyc examples/helloworld

Please note that on 32-bit X86, using LLVM 3.7 or 3.8 on FreeBSD currently produces executables that don't run. Please use LLVM 3.6. 64-bit X86 does not have this problem, and works fine with LLVM 3.7 and 3.8.

You'll need llvm 3.6.2, 3.7.1, or 3.8 and the pcre2 library to build Pony.

Either install them via homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew install homebrew/versions/llvm38 pcre2 libressl

Or install them via macport:

$ sudo port install llvm-3.8 pcre2 libressl
$ sudo port select --set llvm mp-llvm-3.8

Then launch the build with Make:

$ make config=release
$ ./build/release/ponyc examples/helloworld

The LLVM prebuilt binaries for Windows do NOT include the LLVM development tools and libraries. Instead, you will have to build and install LLVM 3.7 or 3.8 from source. You will need to make sure that the path to LLVM/bin (location of llvm-config) is in your PATH variable.

You will also need to build and install premake5 (not premake4) from source. We need premake5 in order to support current versions of Visual Studio.

You may also need to install zlib and ncurses.

$ premake5 vs2013
$ Release build with Visual Studio (ponyc.sln)
$ ./build/release/ponyc examples/helloworld