Installation

The Freight compiler and toolchain is distributed as a single native binary, but contains other elements (such as the standard library) that must be installed onto the machine. You can install Freight in a number of different ways, depending on your machine configuration.

Homebrew

The easiest way to get Freight installed is by using our Homebrew tap, which is located in this repository. To download the tap, run:

brew tap tubbo/freight --url 'https://github.com/tubbo/freight'

You can now install the freight CLI for your system by running:

brew install freight

Manual

Precompiled binaries are distributed for Linux, macOS, and Windows through GitHub Releases. If you aren't using Homebrew, you can download the .zip manually from this page and install it to your system.

Instructions for installing on each system is located within this package.

Cargo

You can also download Freight from https://crates.io. Freight is distributed as a Rust crate since it has a library available to other developers who want to embed Freight within their Rust program. As such, Freight can be installed with Cargo by running:

cargo install freight