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dmitrys99 · on April 30, 2019

You need to rebuild QtByteRunner. Cd to platforms/qt/. There is a readme there for full explanation, but in short:

- clone asmjit (https://github.com/area9innovation/asmjit.git) into platforms/common/cpp folder first (eventually we'll move to upstream asmjit, we use our copy of this lib yet);

- make sure you have Qt 5.12.0 (or upper) available in your system;

- review paths in QtByteRunner.pro, they're usually fit our needs, but in some cases may require changes;

- run build.sh, it'll produce binary for your system.

Then you'll be able to run flowcpp tool.

dmitrys99 · on April 30, 2019

The call chain is:

- you run flowcpp and feed it with .flow file;

- flowcpp see that it is source file and calls compiler

- compiler produces .bytecode file

- flowcpp executes .bytecode file and runs file you called.

You can call compiler directly with flowc or flowc1 commands.

chaz6 · on April 30, 2019

Great, thanks for the explanation!