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-# libquil-sys
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+# libquil-sys
+
+This crate provides Rust bindings to the [`quilc`](https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc) C library.
+
+## How to Build
+
+### Install SBCL from source
+
+SBCL must be installed from source to make sure you have the `libsbcl` shared library available.
+
+1. Install `sbcl` from a package manager *for bootstrapping purposes*.
+2. Clone the repository: `git clone --branch sbcl-2.2.0 git://git.code.sf.net/p/sbcl/sbcl`
+  - Tag `sbcl-2.2.0` is known to work. These instructions have not been tested against a newer version.
+3. Inside the cloned repo: `sh make.sh && sh make-shared-library.sh`
+4. Uninstall the package manager version of `sbcl`.
+5. Run `sh install.sh` to install the compiled `sbcl`
+6. Copy `src/runtime/libsbcl.so` to `/usr/local/lib/libsbcl.so`
+
+### Set up Lisp workspaces
+
+**Important**: The above `sbcl` folder must **not** be in the workspace folder -- it will cause issues.
+
+1. Create a folder to hold the lisp projects (hereafter: `$LISP_WORKSPACE`)
+    - Whenever you see `$LISP_WORKSPACE` below, be sure to use the actual path instead.
+2. Clone the following repos into `$LISP_WORKSPACE`
+    - <https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm>
+    - <https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl>
+    - <https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc>
+    - <https://github.com/quil-lang/sbcl-librarian>
+
+### Set up Quicklisp
+
+1. Follow the official instructions to [install Quicklisp](https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/#installation).
+2. Make sure `$HOME/.sbclrc` contains the following (replace `$LISP_WORKSPACE` with the actual value):
+
+```lisp
+;;; The following lines added by ql:add-to-init-file:
+#-quicklisp
+(let ((quicklisp-init (merge-pathnames "quicklisp/setup.lisp"
+                                       (user-homedir-pathname))))
+  (when (probe-file quicklisp-init)
+    (load quicklisp-init)))
+
+#+quicklisp
+(push "$LISP_WORKSPACE" ql:*local-project-directories*)
+```
+
+### Build `quilc`
+
+**Note**: The build commands in `quilc` assume you are running on MacOS and
+[will error on other systems](https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc/issues/861).
+
+Run the following from `$LISP_WORKSPACE`:
+
+```bash
+make -C quilc
+make -C quilc/lib
+```
+
+Optionally, run tests:
+
+```bash
+# Optional -- run tests
+make -C quilc/tests/c  # Builds executables to manually run
+cp quilc/lib/libquilc.core quilc/lib/tests/c/
+# MacOS
+cp quilc/lib/libquilc.dylib quilc/lib/tests/c/
+# *nix
+cp quilc/lib/libquilc.so quilc/lib/tests/c/
+echo "H 0" | quilc/lib/tests/c/compile-quil
+```
+
+### Build `libquil-sys`
+
+From the root of this repository:
+
+1. Edit `build.rs` and replace the hard-coded paths with your local paths:
+  - `cargo:rustc-link-search=$LISP_WORKSPACE/quilc/lib`
+  - `cargo:rerun-if-changed=$LISP_WORKSPACE/quilc/lib/libquilc.h`
+  - `.header("$LISP_WORKSPACE/quilc/lib/libquilc.h")`
+  - Required until [this issue](https://github.com/rigetti/libquil-sys/issues/2) gets resolved.
+2. Run the following commands:
+```bash
+cp "$LISP_WORKSPACE/quilc/lib/libquilc.dylib" .
+cp "$LISP_WORKSPACE/quilc/lib/libquilc.core" .
+cargo test
+```