This is a library implementing the intermediate representation FIRM developed at IPD Goos, Uni Karlsruhe. Call make lib to construct the library. This creates a file libfirm.a and extracts all necessary header files to ./include. To test the library goto ./testprograms and make and run the test examples placed there: make lib cd testprograms make make run For more documentation see /include/firm.h. To generate FIRM code from a compiler frontend read the documentation in ./include/ircons.h. About Firm you can learn in UKA tech-report 1999-??.