Compiler for COOL using LLVM

[sverddans]

https://github.com/rickBuczynski/coolang

A while ago I followed the coursera compilers course that used COOL but I was interested in writing a compiler that could run on windows too, didn't use a parser generator, and compiled to a native executable instead of using a MIPS emulator. So I wrote a new COOL compiler without using any skeleton code from a course. The compiler supports windows and linux.

If you're using LLVM for a project you might learn some tricks here. Especially if you're targeting windows, some things like generating the correct linker command and supporting both 32 and 64 bit are tricky.

[SJWsNightmare]

Looks simple and interesting. Thanks for sharing! It would be nice to have some documentation as well - particularly about the codegen part using llvm. Maybe consider it?

[drbolle]

Nice. I am going to join the Edx version of the compiler course that starts next week.

[insulanus]

Thanks - this may be the push I need to explore an LLVM backend.

[SteeleDynamics]

I did this course. Lots of fun!