Installation

An example for Arch Linux users

pacman -S libuv libffi python2
mkdir ~/projects/pixie-lang
cd ~/projects/pixie-lang
git clone <github url>
cd pixie
PYTHON="/usr/bin/python2" make build_with_jit
mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
ln -s ~/projects/pixie-lang/pixie/pixie-vm pxi
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
pxi

On Debian

Debian Testing

Before building Pixie, apt-get install the following prerequisites: build-essential pkg-config curl libffi-dev libedit-dev libuv1-dev libboost-all-dev

On FreeBSD 10.1

1. Install the required packages via

       pkg install libuv libffi gmake readline python
   

2. Clone the repository

3. And run the following commands inside of it:

       make build_with_jit
   

4. This creates an executable named pixie-vm