Arrp

Arrp is a functional programming language for digital signal processing. This project provides a compiler and a standard library for Arrp.

For more information on the language Arrp, visit the Arrp website.

Table of Contents:

• Installation
• Usage
• Building from Source

Installation

Installation packages are available on GitHub.

• Debian package:

  Depending on your Linux setup, double-clicking may open a graphical installer.

  Alternatively, the following command installs the package using dpkg:

  dpkg -i package_name.deb
  

• Mac OS ZIP archive:

  • Unzip the folder.
  • Add the bin dir to the PATH environment variable.
  • Add the include subfolder to the CPATH environment variable.

Usage

Invoking the compiler with the -h option will print information about its usage and available options:

arrp -h

Generating C++ Kernel Code

By default, the Arrp compiler generates a C++ "kernel" - C++ code with a generic interface that makes it easy to integrate into larger C++ projects.

The following command writes the kernel code into a C++ header file program.h:

arrp program.arrp --output program

See the documentation for a detailed explanation of the C++ kernel code.

Generating Code for Various Interfaces

The Arrp compiler can also generate additional C++ code wrapping the kernel into a variety of different interfaces:

• Standard streams
• Jack client
• Pure Data external

Building from Source

Prerequisites

NOTE: The project requires a compiler with a good support for C++11.

Submodules

This project uses git submodules; make sure to get/update all of them:

git submodule init
git submodule update

(Optional) Bison and Flex

Optionally, you may want to re-generate lexer and parser. This requires the flex lexer generator and the bison parser generator.

Building

isl (Integer Set Library)

The isl library must be built manually, because it is not integrated with the CMake build system of this project.

Execute the following commands, starting in the root of this project:

cd extra/isl
mkdir build
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$(pwd)/build
make install

This will build isl in the directory extra/isl/build.

Arrp compiler

After all the prerequisits are in place as described above, you can build the Arrp compiler using the CMake build system.

On Linux and Mac OS X, execute the following commands, starting in the root of this project:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install

You can control where the compiler is installed using the CMake variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

After installation, the Arrp compiler executable is located at CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/arrp.

Running tests

1. Build and install the compiler as described in the previous section.
2. Run tests using ctest in the build directory.

Options

The CMake build system provides the following options:

• PARSER_REGENERATE - Regenerate lexer and parser using flex and bison.
• PARSER_GENERATOR_OUTPUT_DESCRIPTION - When generating parser, output parser description.