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Installation

This page will show the steps to install Eiger for each operating system


Windows

Go to the Github page's releases page and download the eiger-win.zip of the latest release.

If there are no stable releases of the language yet, please refer to building from source.

Adding environment variable (Windows)

setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\path\to\eiger-win"

macOS

please refer to building from source.


Linux

please refer to building from source.


Building from Source

Using Visual Studio

Requirements

  • Visual Studio with the C# development workload installed

Steps

  1. Clone the repository:
    git clone https://github.com/eigerproject/eigerlang.git
  2. Open the solution file eiger.sln in Visual Studio.
  3. Build and run the project.

Using the .NET CLI

Requirements

  • .NET SDK (includes the .NET CLI)

Steps

  1. Clone the repository:
    git clone https://github.com/eigerproject/eigerlang.git
  2. Navigate to the /eiger directory.
  3. Run the project: dotnet run

Running Unit Tests

Using Visual Studio

Requirements

  • Visual Studio with the C# development workload installed

Steps

  1. Open the solution eiger.sln.
  2. Use the Test Explorer to discover and run all tests.

Using the .NET CLI

Requirements

  • .NET SDK (includes the .NET CLI)

Steps

  1. Clone the repository:
    git clone https://github.com/eigerproject/eigerlang.git
  2. Navigate to the /eiger.Tests directory.
  3. Run the tests: dotnet test