We have a VERY SILL KRAKEN COMPILER\! simple_passthroughs are now emitted by the c_generator and test_compiler has been extended to write the C to a file and then call cc on it, so the self-hosted Kraken compiler can compile its very first thing\! (though that thing is a hello world C program written entirely in a simple_passthrough...

tests/test_compiler.krak

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import symbol:*
 import tree:*
 import serialize:*
 import c_generator:*
+import os:*
 
 fun main():int {
 
@@ -79,9 +80,11 @@ fun main():int {
     var importer.construct(parse, ast_pass): importer
     importer.import(kraken_file_name)
     var c_generator.construct(): c_generator
-    var c_output_pair = c_generator.generate(importer.name_ast_map)
-    write_file(kraken_file_name + ".c", c_output_pair.first)
+    var c_output_pair = c_generator.generate_c(importer.name_ast_map)
+    var kraken_c_output_name = kraken_file_name + ".c"
+    write_file(kraken_c_output_name, c_output_pair.first)
     println(string("linker string: ") + c_output_pair.second)
+    system(string("cc -g -O3 -std=c99 ") + kraken_c_output_name + " -o " + kraken_file_name + ".exe")
 
     return 0
 }

tests/to_import.krak

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 
 __if_comp__ __C__ simple_passthrough """
 	#include <stdio.h>
+    int main() {
+        printf("hello world! (of selfhosting! (silly selfhosting for now))\n");
+        return 0;
+    }
 """
 var a = 1
 var b = 2