Installation

Lake ships as three components, all managed by lakeup — the toolchain installer (think rustup for Lake):

component	what it is
lakec	the compiler (Lake → native ELF)
house	the project & package manager
std	the standard library

§One-line install

curl -fsSL https://lake-lang.com/install.sh | sh

This fetches lakeup, then installs the latest stable lakec, house and std into ~/.lake:

~/.lake/
├── bin/{lakec, house, lakeup}        active toolchain (on your PATH)
├── lib/std                           active standard library
└── versions/…                        every installed version

Add ~/.lake/bin to your PATH (the installer offers to do this).

§Updating

lakeup update          # re-fetch the latest of every component
lakeup install lakec   # or pin/refresh a single component

Each component is pulled from its GitHub release, so lakeup update always lands you on the newest published lakec / house / std.

§Verifying

lakec --version
house --version

§Your first build

house new hello        # scaffold a project
cd hello
house run              # build with lakec + run the binary

house run resolves dependencies, invokes lakec on the project entry point, and executes the produced native binary. Continue with Getting started.

§Building from source (optional)

Everything is open source under github.com/morphqdd. The compiler is Rust; the standard library, house and the package ecosystem are written in Lake itself.

git clone https://github.com/morphqdd/lake-native-compiler
cd lake-native-compiler
cargo build --release --bin lakec       # → target/release/lakec