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Amulet is a simple functional programming language in the ML tradition, with support for higher-rank parametric polymorphic types and row-polymorphic records, pattern matching with algebraic data types, and tail recursion elimination.
For your convenience, we provide pre-built tarballs for x86_64 Linux
that are compiled every night from the master branch (as part of the
nightly build job, linked above). Install them with the magic install
script:
curl https://amulet.works/install.sh | env CHANNEL=nightly sh -
Make sure you have a functional Haskell toolchain including Stack. Since
Amulet has a lot of object files (around 125 for the amc executable,
not counting all of the Haskell dependencies that are shipped as .a
static l
7FA4
ibraries), we use the LLVM lld linker in the Cabal file.
If you do not wish to use lld, remove all the ghc-options: stanzas
from the amuletml.cabal file; This sed command should do the trick,
too.
sed -re 's;-optl-fuse-ld=lld;;g' -i amuletml.cabal
Amulet ships with its own set of libraries. Make sure they are
installed. amc will look for its libraries in one of the following
directories:
${AMC_LIBRARY_PATH}
$(dirname $(which amc))/lib
$(dirname $(which amc))/../libThe script tools/quickinstall.sh will take care of building and
installing the libraries, using Stack.