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Juvix Doctor

The juvix doctor command can help you to troubleshoot problems with your development environment. For each problem the doctor finds they'll be a link to a section on this page to help you fix it.

Could not find the clang command

The Juvix compiler uses the Clang compiler version 13 or later to generate binaries. You need to have Clang available on your system $PATH.

Recommended installation method:

MacOS

Use Homebrew:

brew install llvm

NB: The distribution of Clang that comes with XCode does not support the Wasm target so you must install the standard Clang distribution.

Debian / Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt install clang lldb lld

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S llvm lld

Could not find the wasm-ld command

The Juvix compiler required wasm-ld (the Wasm linker) to produce Wasm binaries.

Recommended installation method:

MacOS

wasm-ld is included in the Homebrew llvm distribution:

brew install llvm

Debian / Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt install lldb lld

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S lld

Newer Clang version required

Juvix requires Clang version 13 or above. See the documentation on installing Clang.

Clang does not support the wasm32 target

Juvix requires Clang version 13 or above. See the documentation on installing Clang.

Clang does not support the wasm32-wasi target

Juvix uses WASI - The Wasm System Interface to produce binaries that can be executed using a Wasm runtime. The files necessary to setup Clang with wasm32-wasi support are available at wasi-sdk.

To install the wasm32-wasi target for Clang you need to do two things:

Install libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a into your Clang distribution

  1. Obtain libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32-wasi-16.0.tar.gz from the wasi-sdk releases page.

  2. Untar the file and place the file lib/wasi/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a into your Clang distribution directory.

    On MacOS, if you installed llvm using homebrew you can find the Clang distribution directory using brew --prefix llvm. You should then place the builtins file at `brew --prefix llvm`/lib/wasi/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a.

    On Linux the Clang distribution directory will be something like /usr/lib/clang/13.0.1 where 13.0.1 is the version of Clang that you have installed. You should then place the builtins file at /usr/lib/clang/13.0.1/lib/wasi/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.

Download the WASI sysroot and set WASI_SYSROOT_PATH

  1. Obtain wasi-sysroot-16.0.tar.gz from the wasi-sdk releases page.
  2. Untar the file and set the environment variable WASI_SYSROOT_PATH to that location.

Environment variable WASI_SYSROOT_PATH is not set

Set the WASI_SYSROOT_PATH to the directory where you installed the wasi-sdk sysroot files. See installing the WASI sysroot.

Could not find the wasmer command

The Juvix test suite uses Wasmer as a Wasm runtime to execute compiled Wasm binaries. See the Wasmer documentation to see how to install it.

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