Welcome to base9!

Base9 is an educational language runtime and programming language! We’re using it to show people how to use Eclipse OMR to build their own language runtime with a Just in Time (JIT) Compiler! The base9 front-end language is a simple subset of JavaScript. For more information, visit the base9 website.

Build your own Language Runtime

If you'd like to build your own language runtime, visit our guide on Building a Language Runtime!

Getting started

This page contains some basic instructions to get you started. For more detailed instructions, go to:

• Ubuntu set-up page.
• OSX set-up page.

1. Requirements

To get started with base9 using the Ninja build system, you'll need the following:

• git
• build-essential
• nodejs (Minimum version 4.5.0)
• npm
• esprima
• cmake (Minimum version 3.2.0)
• ninja

2. Clone the repository and get the submodules

git clone --recursive https://github.com/b9org/b9.git

3. Install Esprima

cd b9 \
&& npm install esprima

4. Build base9

mkdir build \
&& cd build \
&& cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. \
&& ninja

5. Run Hello World!

In the build directory, run:

./b9run/b9run ./test/hello.b9mod

6. Test base9

You can run the full base9 test suite with:

ninja test