The rpm release of the compiler is designed to be installed on RedHat based distributions of Linux (e.g. RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.) using the rpm tool set.

Installation:

$ sudo rpm --install sac2c-VERSION-RELEASE.rpm

The deb package is meant to be installed on Debian based distributions (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) using the dpkg or the apt tool set.

Installation:

$ sudo dpkg --install sac-VERSION-RELEASE.deb

$ sudo apt install sac-VERSION-RELEASE.deb

The pkg is an installer that will place the SaC files in the correct location on your system. Symbolic links to the SaC binaries are created in /usr/local/bin for your convenience.

The SaC binaries are postfixed by their release type (production or debug), so there is a sac2c_p and sac2c_d respectively, sac2c is simply a link to sac2c_p.

Installation:

1. Double click the downloaded pkg file
2. A dialog box should appear that will guide you through the install process
3. Confirm that you agree with our license, and click Install to install SaC
4. The binary sac2c_p should be in your PATH

The .tar.gz archive is intended for arbitrary installs, meaning that if you can't install sac2c using one of the other packages due to system permissions, you can use this archive to install it under you home-directory. The libraries of the compiler can be placed anywhere so long as the sac2c binary (and related) know where to find them. For this reason the archive provides the sac2c binary (and related) as source code to be compiled by the end-user.

For simplicities sake, an install script is provided. It supports several flags, but the most important one is -i to indicate where you want to install everything (for example ~/.local).

Installation of the compiler is as simple as extracting from the archive:

$ mkdir ~/temp_extract && cd ~/temp_extract
$ tar -xzf sac2c-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.gz
$ nano README                            # if you want more information on the install
$ bash ./install.sh -i INSTALL_DIR       # and thats it
$ cd ~ && rm -rf temp_extract

While we do not currently support a native Windows version, you can still use it through a virtualisation layer of your choosing. The easiest way to use sac2c on a Windows 10 system is to use Window's own virtualisation for Linux support, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). To do this, you have to do four things:

1. You need to activate the developer mode of Windows. (Settings → Update & Security → For developers → tick the Developer Mode)
2. You need to activate the WSL. (Control Panel → Programs → Programs & Features → Turn Features On & Off → tick Windows Subsystem for Linux)
3. Go to the Microsoft Store and choose a Linux Distribution of your choice, e.g, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
4. Download the basic version of sac2c and sac-stdlib that matches the Linux version you have chosen and install it. For Ubuntu, you download the corresponding .deb files and then run

$sudo apt update
$sudo apt install sac2c-VERSION-RELEASE.deb
$sudo apt install sac-stdlib-VERSION-RELEASE.deb

After that, you should have the sac system up and running: the SaC binaries are postfixed by their release type (production or debug), so there is a sac2c_p and sac2c_d respectively, sac2c is simply a link to sac2c_p.