0.5.0

We are very happy to announce the release of version 0.5.0 of Crystal!

For those of you who couldn't install Crystal so far, or had troubles installing it, we have good news: we now provide .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz packages for 64 bits linux architectures directly on the releases pages. We tries those in a very old Centos version, as well as in ArchLinux and Debian. The executable has all the necessaries libraries statically linked so there won't be any more problems with incompatible or missing shared libraries [*]. And it also has LLVM statically linked: the only executable you need to have in your system is cc.

For Mac users the install procedure is the same as before:

brew tap manastech/crystal
brew update
brew install crystal

If you want to compile the compiler and run the specs you will need LLVM 3.5. We found it a bit hard to compile it in old 64-bits linux so we have an already compiled one right here. Then you need to add the bin directory to your PATH.

Enjoy!

[*] The exceptions are libgmp (for BigInt) and libpcl (for Fiber) and libyaml: install those separately to use these classes.