Month November 2023

Steam-OS specific tasks Steam Deck is an Arch Linux machine with slightly tweaked environment.So first let’s first convert it to some more standard Linux. Download and install the Argentum demo Argentum demo goes in the form of DEB package. Arch…

Open compiler project in Visual Studio Run/Debug Select x64-Debug configuration and ag-test.exe as a startup target. Run/debug code as usual. To run/debug the Argentum compiler (agc): Tip: if paste to “args”: [] a raw command line (like -src d:\cpp\argentum\demo -start…

Preparations Install GCC and friends: Install Ninja build system and CMake LLVM Get LLVM sources: Prepare build files: Build LLVM (this will take ~~hour) Install LLVM to out dir Now ~ contains the newly built release version of LLVM SDL…

Create Start the PowerShell and type: After reboot enter your username/password and viola, you have your Ubuntu. Unfortunately it is on drive C. If you need it somewhere else, there is a way: Move to over location (D:) Make a…

Directory structure: Install prerequisites Build LLVM from sources Unzip LLVM sources from d:\cpp\llvm-project-llvmorg-17.0.4 Make VS project/solution files This takes several minutes Build the LLVM project This might take several hours. Install Check for errors and if everything is ok,…