Install

clove builds from source in a few seconds. You need a C compiler (cc, gcc or clang) and make. Nothing else: the interpreter links against libc, libm and libdl.

One line

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexalemi/clove/main/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the source of the newest tagged release, builds it, and installs clove to ~/.local/bin, with its libraries in ~/.local/share/clove. Make sure ~/.local/bin is on your PATH.

Options go after sh -s --:

curl -fsSL .../install.sh | sh -s -- --version v0.9.0   # a specific release
curl -fsSL .../install.sh | sh -s -- --version main     # the latest commit
curl -fsSL .../install.sh | sh -s -- --prefix /usr/local
curl -fsSL .../install.sh | sh -s -- --test             # run the test suite first

Read the script before piping it to a shell if you like; it's about 120 lines of POSIX sh.

From a checkout

git clone https://github.com/alexalemi/clove
cd clove
make            # builds ./clove
make test       # about 20 seconds
./install.sh    # or: PREFIX=/usr/local ./install.sh

An uninstalled ./clove works too, from any directory. It finds its libraries next to the binary.

Check it

$ clove -e '(+ 1 2)'
3
$ clove doctor

clove doctor prints the load path and where it found the batteries. Run it when a require can't find something.

Platforms

Linux is the reference platform. macOS (arm64 and x86_64) runs everything. Windows builds with mingw-w64 and runs the core language, the REPL and sockets, but not coroutines, core.async, nREPL, the FFI or the JIT.

Uninstall

rm ~/.local/bin/clove
rm -r ~/.local/share/clove

From a checkout, make uninstall PREFIX=... does the same.