Toolchain development
OfficialBuild, debug, and understand Carbon's toolchain.
Authorcarbon-language
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This section explains how to check, build, debug, and understand the Carbon toolchain to streamline development workflows and reduce ramp-up time for contributors.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Guides on navigating the toolchain structure and architecture (base, check, lex, parse, lower, sem_ir)
- Step-by-step workflows for building, testing, and debugging, including common pitfalls
- Use Case: A contributor validating a change in the parser and SemIR generation and ensuring it passes existing tests
Quick Start
Run the autoupdate_testdata.py script to refresh test data before running a targeted build.
Dependency Matrix
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