building_and_testing.md

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Building and Testing

The current implementation of SeedLang runs in the environment of .Net or Unity.

Pre-requisites

1. Install Microsoft .NET.

2. If you want to build and verify the documentation locally, please install Jekyll as well.

3. Clone the SeedLang source code then enter the top level dir:

git clone https://github.com/SeedV/SeedLang.git
cd SeedLang

Build SeedLang

dotnet build csharp

To make a release build:

dotnet build -c Release csharp

Unit Tests

To run the unit tests of SeedLang:

dotnet test csharp

Run SeedLang.Shell

SeedLang.Shell is a simple interpreter of SeedLang. To start it:

dotnet run --project csharp/src/SeedLang.Shell

To print the usage info of SeedLang.Shell:

dotnet run --project csharp/src/SeedLang.Shell -- --help

Build and Verify the Documentation

The source files of the SeedLang documentation is located at https://github.com/SeedV/SeedLang/tree/main/docs.

The documentation is automatically built with GitHub Pages/Jekyll and released at https://seedv.github.io/SeedLang/.

Before submitting any content update of the documentation, please verify the update by serving it locally with Jekyll:

pushd docs
bundle exec jekyll serve
popd

Benchmarks

There are a couple of pre-defined benchmarks to verify the performance of SeedLang.

dotnet run --project csharp/benchmark/SeedLang.Benchmark