Joseph Morag - Language Guru ([email protected]) Lauren Arnett - System Architect ([email protected]) Elena Ariza - Manager ([email protected]) Nick Buonincontri - Tester ([email protected])
TensorFlock requires the following to be installed on your local system:
- opam, version 1.2.2 or greater
- OCaml, version 4.06 or greater, installed with opam -- Though it has not been tested we've tried to avoid language features added after 4.03; earlier versions of OCaml will likely work, but we make no guarantees.
- LLVM, version 3.8
- OCaml's LLVM bindings, version 3.8, installed with opam -- LLVM and OCaml's LLVM bindings may use later versions but the versions must match
First, you need to declare where LLVM's binaries are located on your system. If LLVM's bin is already in your path then you can skip this step.
To declare LLVM's location cp the file named local.example to local.mkInlocal.mkadd this assignment:LLVM_PATH = /path/to/llvm/bin`.
The Makefile contains a target to first verify lli can be found on the system path, then if the LLVM_PATH variable has been set - always in that order, the path takes precedence over the LLVM_PATH variable. If neither condition is met it will error with a message when attempting to run make targets that require LLVM.
If using the Docker container described below, you do not need to setup local.mk. The container has LLVM's bin in the system path.
Run make to compile TensorFlock's compiler. TensorFlock is packaged with an opam file that will install any needed dependencies as a local pin.
After running make the compiler will be named toplevel.native and can be found in the root directory of the project.
The TensorFlock compiler can take one of four flags:
-a: prints the AST-s: runs the semantic checker-l: prints generated LLVM IR-c: generates LLVM bytecode, saved tooutput.ll
For example the compiler is executed by running: ./toplevel.native -c tests/some_file.tf
For ease of demonstration a make demo target has been added to the Makefile. This compiles the TensorFlock compiler, which in turn compiles our demo program to LLVM bytecode, which is then passed to the LLVM interpreter.
Run make test to execute the test runner.
Our test runner checks three levels of compilation: parsing, semantic checking, and codegen.
Parsing and semantic checking are verified on the basis of the exit code of the compilation process. Passing tests are expected to exit on 0, failing tests are expected to exit on some n > 0.
In addition to the manner described above, passing codegen tests are also tested by comparing the output of the executed program with a canonical value. (The value is saved in a corresponding file with the extension .pass eg: some_test.tf => some_test.pass
To ensure a consistent development environment we've created a Docker image with all external dependencies installed, as well as provide build targets to make, run, and test TensorFlock in a corresponding Docker containers.
The Dockerfile, which declares how the image is built, can be found in the docker directory.
To use Docker, first install Docker on your host system and verify that the Docker demon is running. Then:
make docker-make: runsmakeinside a container and exitsmake docker-test: runsmake testinside a container and exitsmake docker-shell: drops you into a shell of a running container, inside/root/TensorFlock
Some notes about our Docker setup:
- The initial run of the container on the host will pull down the image, which is ~1GB. (We used Ubuntu 16.04 as a base system; in retrospect a smaller distro would have been better.)
- The TensorFlock directory on the host machine is effectively mounted to
/root/TensorFlockinside the container. Disk writes on the host in this directory will appear in the client, and vice-versa. - The container is discarded upon exit. Any changes to the client outside of
/root/TensorFlockare lost when the container stops. This is done to maintain the consistency of the build environment as well as prevent the buildup of old containers on the host.