Inko 0.18.1 is relased

[yorickpeterse]

We're pleased to announce the release of Inko 0.18.1. This release includes support for stack allocated types, parsing and formatting of dates and times, the enabling of LLVM optimizations, and more.

For the full details, refer to the release post.

[practicalcomputerscience]

Re Ubuntu 24

The Inko installation for Ubuntu version 24 guide has an omission: https://docs.inko-lang.org/manual/latest/setup/installation/#ubuntu

Also for Ubuntu 24.04 - and probably newer - the Polly LLVM framework (https://polly.llvm.org/index.html) must be included during installation of the LLVM framework, at least for version 17 (which works for me): see libpolly-17-dev

You can do this with this command on the Bash shell:

$ sudo apt-get install --yes rustc cargo git build-essential llvm-17 llvm-17-dev libstdc++-11-dev libclang-common-17-dev zlib1g-dev libpolly-17-dev libzstd-dev

This is the same related command as given for Ubuntu 23.10.

However, it's not a problem when you have only applied given command for Ubuntu 24. Because you can add the Polly optimizer afterwards like this:

$ sudo apt-get install --yes libpolly-17-dev

LLVM version 17, with the command as given above, will be installed into directory: /usr/lib/llvm-17

Because without Polly you cannot install the Inko compiler with installation manager ivm like this for example (that is that the Inko compiler cannot be compiled without Polly being available):

$ ivm install latest

In Ubuntu you may or should also add some configurations in your .bashrc file, for example like this (even when it may look a little bit redundant, but maybe also helpful as an idea when the LLVM framework has been built and/or installed differently):

export LLVM_HOME="/usr/lib/llvm-17"
export PATH=$LLVM_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin/ivm:$PATH"
export LLVM_SYS_170_PREFIX="/usr/lib/llvm-17"
export LLVM_SYS_181_PREFIX="/usr/lib/llvm-17"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LLVM_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/share/ivm/installed/0.18.1/bin"

After changes, don't forget to re-active this file by applying command:

$ source ~/.bashrc

[yorickpeterse]

@practicalcomputerscience Thanks, this was already fixed in b41f08e which is available at https://docs.inko-lang.org/manual/main/setup/installation/#ubuntu 😃