Upgrade to OCaml 5.x and LLVM 19 with opaque pointers (#14)

## Summary

- Port codebase from OCaml 4.07 to OCaml 5.x (replace deprecated
`Pervasives.compare`, fix warnings)
- Adapt to LLVM 19 opaque pointer model (explicit type arguments for
`build_load`, `build_gep`, `build_call`, etc.)
- Update build configuration for OCaml 5 compatibility
- Update README with modern installation instructions

## Changes

### OCaml 5.x Compatibility
- Replace `Pervasives.compare` with `compare` in semant.ml,
utilities.ml, codegenutils.ml
- Fix unreachable code warning in coral.ml (`exit 0; ()` → `exit 0`)
- Add `package(unix)` to `_tags` and remove redundant `-lib unix` from
Makefile

### LLVM 19 Opaque Pointers
- All pointer types now use single opaque `ptr` type via `L.pointer_type
context`
- Add explicit type arguments to `build_load`, `build_gep`,
`build_struct_gep`
- Add function type arguments to all `build_call` invocations
- Fix optimized function calls to compute `ftype` explicitly instead of
using `L.type_of`

### Documentation
- Update README installation instructions for OCaml 5.x
- Add Apple Silicon LLVM path (`/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin`)
- Simplify and modernize installation steps

## Test plan

- [x] All 132 regression tests pass
- [x] Build completes with no OCaml warnings
- [x] Tested on macOS with OCaml 5.4.0 and LLVM 19

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: jacobaustin123

Makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .PHONY: all clean byte native fn
 
-OCB_FLAGS = -tag bin_annot -I src  -use-ocamlfind -lib unix 
+OCB_FLAGS = -tag bin_annot -I src  -use-ocamlfind 
 OCB = ocamlbuild $(OCB_FLAGS)
 
 all: clean native 

README.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Coral supports Python 3.7 style type annotations, as seen in the add function he
 
 The Coral GitHub page provides installers for MacOS and several Linux distributions. **These installers can be found on the [Releases page](https://github.com/jacobaustin123/Coral/releases)**. These require that clang be installed.
 
-To build the language from the source, **you must have OCaml 4.07.\*, ocaml-llvm, and clang already installed**. To build Coral from the source with OCaml, ocaml-llvm, and gcc/clang already installed, run:
+To build the language from the source, **you must have OCaml (5.x recommended), ocaml-llvm, and clang already installed**. To build Coral from the source with OCaml, ocaml-llvm, and gcc/clang already installed, run:
 
 ```bash
 > git clone https://github.com/jacobaustin123/Coral.git
@@ -54,27 +54,27 @@ This will generate an executable called coral which acts as a compiler and inter
 ```bash
 > brew install opam llvm
 > opam init
-> opam switch create 4.07.1
-> opam install llvm ocamlbuild ocamlfind core
+> eval $(opam env)
+> opam install llvm ocamlbuild ocamlfind
 ```
 
-If the above fails, you may need to run `eval $(opam env)` after opam init and opam switch. The following may also be useful instead:
+If the above fails, you may need to run `eval $(opam env)` after opam init. You may also need to ensure the LLVM binaries are in your PATH:
 
 ```bash
-> brew install opam llvm
-> opam depext conf-llvm.6.0.0
-> opam install llvm
-> export PATH=/usr/local/opt/llvm@6/bin:$PATH
+> export PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH  # Apple Silicon
+> export PATH=/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH     # Intel Mac
 ```
 
 On Linux, follow the OCaml/Opam installation instructions [here](https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html) for your distribution, install llvm following instructions [here](https://apt.llvm.org/), and then run
 
-```
-> sudo apt-get install cmake llvm-10 opam
+```bash
+> sudo apt-get install cmake llvm opam
+> opam init
+> eval $(opam env)
 > opam install llvm ocamlbuild ocamlfind
 ```
 
-You may need to add the llvm path (on Mac usually /usr/local/opt/llvm@6/bin:$PATH) to your PATH variable using bashrc.
+You may need to add the llvm bin directory to your PATH variable using bashrc or zshrc.
 
 # Goals
 

_tags

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Include the llvm and llvm.analysis packages while compiling
-true: package(llvm), package(llvm.analysis)
+# Include the llvm, llvm.analysis, and unix packages while compiling
+true: package(llvm), package(llvm.analysis), package(unix)
 
 # Enable almost all compiler warnings
 true : warn(-8-26-11)

src/codegen.ml

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ let pbind bind = tstp (string_of_sbind bind); ()
 let _ = L.enable_pretty_stacktrace()
 (* Maps *)
 module StringMap = Map.Make(String)
-module BindMap = Map.Make(struct type t = Ast.bind let compare = Pervasives.compare end)
-module SfdeclMap = Map.Make(struct type t = Sast.sfunc_decl let compare = Pervasives.compare end)
+module BindMap = Map.Make(struct type t = Ast.bind let compare = compare end)
+module SfdeclMap = Map.Make(struct type t = Sast.sfunc_decl let compare = compare end)
 
 let explode s = 
     let rec aux out n =

src/codegenutils.ml

@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ let rec from_file map fname run = (* todo combine with loop *)
     | Not_found -> Printf.printf "NotFoundError: unknown error!\n"; flush stdout
     | Parsing.Parse_error -> Printf.printf "ParseError: invalid syntax!\n"; flush stdout
     | Failure explanation -> Printf.printf "%s\n" explanation; flush stdout
-    | KeyboardInterrupt -> safe_remove !llvm_name; safe_remove !assembly_name; safe_remove !executable_name; exit 0; ()
+    | KeyboardInterrupt -> safe_remove !llvm_name; safe_remove !assembly_name; safe_remove !executable_name; exit 0
 
 (* Coral main interpreter loop. Parses command line arguments, including a single
 anonymous argument (file path) and runs either the interpreter or the from_file compiler *)

src/coral.ml

@@ -451,5 +451,5 @@ and stmt the_state = function (* evaluates statements, can pass it a func *)
 statements and returning a list of sstmts, a list of globals, and the updated map *)
 
 and check sast_out globals_out the_state = function
-  | [] -> ((List.rev sast_out, List.sort_uniq Pervasives.compare (List.rev (globals_out @ !possible_globals))), the_state.locals)
+  | [] -> ((List.rev sast_out, List.sort_uniq compare (List.rev (globals_out @ !possible_globals))), the_state.locals)
   | a :: t -> let (m', statement, data, binds) = stmt the_state a in check (statement :: sast_out) (binds @ globals_out) (change_state the_state (S_setmaps (m', m'))) t

src/semant.ml

@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ let compare_decl a b = if a = b then a else false
 let compare_data a b = if a = b then a else None
 
 (* map with SFunc and argument type list used to check recursive calls *)
-module TypeMap = Map.Make(struct type t = stmt * typ list let compare = Pervasives.compare end)
+module TypeMap = Map.Make(struct type t = stmt * typ list let compare = compare end)
 
 (* map with string keys, used for variable lookup *)
 module StringMap = Map.Make(String)

src/utilities.ml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+def fib(n):
+    if n <= 1:
+        return n
+    else:
+        return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
+
+def factorial(n):
+    if n <= 1:
+        return 1
+    else:
+        return n * factorial(n-1)
+
+x = 42
+print(x)

tests/test-recurse-define.cl

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+42