This repo serves as an example Jai project for the Raspberry Pi (64-bit). The LLVM backend is used to target the machine, and a few hacks to Jai's built-in modules are needed to get basic support working somewhat decently since ARM64 is not currently a first-class target.

I recommend storing Jon's Jai beta releases in a Git repo. You can then make a new branch just for working with the Raspberry Pi hacks you'll need to install. From there, in the root of the Jai release folder, do:

git apply --ignore-whitespace /path/to/jai-module-hacks.patch

Next, go grab a cross-compiling GCC for the Raspberry Pi and add it to your PATH. This page thankfully has some pre-built binaries for an x64 Linux host. At the time of writing, I choose download for Debian Bookworm and GCC 14.2.0.

It should be as simple as:

jai-linux first.jai

You can add specify whether to built for the host or target machine with -host and -target respectively:

jai-linux first.jai - -host
jai-linux first.jai - -target

• @ctp and @ctpeepee in the Discord server for helping with the module hacks
• tsoding for the metaprogram scripts that let you report and strip out all uses of inline assembly (no longer necessary, thankfully)
• Jonathan Blow for the language