diff --git a/src/bin/lc.cpp b/src/bin/lc.cpp
index cc3be13..19ff5be 100644
--- a/src/bin/lc.cpp
+++ b/src/bin/lc.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #include <libasr/assert.h>
 #include <libasr/pass/pass_manager.h>
 #include <libasr/pickle.h>
-#include <libasr/codegen/evaluator.h>
+#include <libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h>
 #include <libasr/codegen/asr_to_c.h>
 #include <libasr/codegen/asr_to_cpp.h>
 #include <libasr/codegen/asr_to_fortran.h>
diff --git a/src/libasr/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libasr/CMakeLists.txt
index 689f6ea..af8fdba 100644
--- a/src/libasr/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libasr/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ set(SRC
 )
 if (WITH_LLVM)
     set(SRC ${SRC}
-        codegen/evaluator.cpp
+        codegen/c_evaluator.cpp
         codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp
         codegen/llvm_array_utils.cpp
         codegen/llvm_utils.cpp
     )
     # We use deprecated API in LLVM, so we disable the warning until we upgrade
     if (NOT MSVC)
-        set_source_files_properties(codegen/evaluator.cpp PROPERTIES
+        set_source_files_properties(codegen/c_evaluator.cpp PROPERTIES
             COMPILE_FLAGS -Wno-deprecated-declarations)
         set_source_files_properties(codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp PROPERTIES
             COMPILE_FLAGS -Wno-deprecated-declarations)
diff --git a/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.h b/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.h
index a1e911e..a099f54 100644
--- a/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.h
+++ b/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define LFORTRAN_ASR_TO_LLVM_H
 
 #include <libasr/asr.h>
-#include <libasr/codegen/evaluator.h>
+#include <libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h>
 #include <libasr/pass/pass_manager.h>
 
 namespace LCompilers {
diff --git a/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.cpp b/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..695e459
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,266 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include <fstream>
+
+#include <llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h>
+#include <llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h>
+#include <llvm/Analysis/Passes.h>
+#include <llvm/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.h>
+#include <llvm/Analysis/TargetLibraryInfo.h>
+#include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h>
+#include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/GenericValue.h>
+#include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/MCJIT.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Argument.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Attributes.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Constants.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Function.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Instructions.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Intrinsics.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/LegacyPassManager.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Module.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Type.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/Casting.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/ManagedStatic.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/TargetSelect.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h>
+#include <llvm/ADT/APFloat.h>
+#include <llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h>
+#include <llvm/IR/Verifier.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/TargetSelect.h>
+#include <llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Scalar/GVN.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Scalar/InstSimplifyPass.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Vectorize.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/IPO.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/IPO/AlwaysInliner.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/IPO/PassManagerBuilder.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/Instrumentation/ThreadSanitizer.h>
+#include <llvm/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombine.h>
+#include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/ObjectCache.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/CommandLine.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/FileSystem.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/Path.h>
+#include <llvm/AsmParser/Parser.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/SourceMgr.h>
+#include <llvm/ADT/StringRef.h>
+#include <llvm/Target/TargetOptions.h>
+#if LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR >= 14
+#    include <llvm/MC/TargetRegistry.h>
+#else
+#    include <llvm/Support/TargetRegistry.h>
+#endif
+#include <llvm/Support/Host.h>
+
+#include <libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h>
+#include <libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.h>
+#include <libasr/codegen/asr_to_cpp.h>
+#include <libasr/exception.h>
+#include <libasr/asr.h>
+#include <libasr/string_utils.h>
+
+
+namespace LCompilers {
+
+// Extracts the integer from APInt.
+// APInt does not seem to have this functionality, so we implement it here.
+uint64_t APInt_getint(const llvm::APInt &i) {
+    // The APInt::isSingleWord() is private, but we can emulate it:
+    bool isSingleWord = !i.needsCleanup();
+    if (isSingleWord) {
+        return *i.getRawData();
+    } else {
+        throw std::runtime_error("APInt too large to fit uint64_t");
+    }
+}
+
+LLVMModule::LLVMModule(std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> m)
+{
+    m_m = std::move(m);
+}
+
+LLVMModule::~LLVMModule() = default;
+
+std::string LLVMModule::str()
+{
+    return LLVMEvaluator::module_to_string(*m_m);
+}
+
+std::string LLVMModule::get_return_type(const std::string &fn_name)
+{
+    llvm::Module *m = m_m.get();
+    llvm::Function *fn = m->getFunction(fn_name);
+    if (!fn) {
+        return "none";
+    }
+    llvm::Type *type = fn->getReturnType();
+    if (type->isFloatTy()) {
+        return "real4";
+    } else if (type->isDoubleTy()) {
+        return "real8";
+    } else if (type->isIntegerTy(32)) {
+        return "integer4";
+    } else if (type->isIntegerTy(64)) {
+        return "integer8";
+    } else if (type->isStructTy()) {
+        llvm::StructType *st = llvm::cast<llvm::StructType>(type);
+        if (st->hasName()) {
+            if (startswith(std::string(st->getName()), "complex_4")) {
+                return "complex4";
+            } else if (startswith(std::string(st->getName()), "complex_8")) {
+                return "complex8";
+            } else {
+                throw LCompilersException("LLVMModule::get_return_type(): Struct return type `" + std::string(st->getName()) + "` not supported");
+            }
+        } else {
+            throw LCompilersException("LLVMModule::get_return_type(): Noname struct return type not supported");
+        }
+    } else if (type->isVectorTy()) {
+        // Used for passing complex_4 on some platforms
+        return "complex4";
+    } else if (type->isVoidTy()) {
+        return "void";
+    } else {
+        throw LCompilersException("LLVMModule::get_return_type(): Return type not supported");
+    }
+}
+
+extern "C" {
+
+float _lfortran_stan(float x);
+
+}
+
+#if LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR >= 16
+#    define RM_OPTIONAL_TYPE std::optional
+#else
+#    define RM_OPTIONAL_TYPE llvm::Optional
+#endif
+
+LLVMEvaluator::LLVMEvaluator(const std::string &t)
+{
+    llvm::InitializeNativeTarget();
+    llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmPrinter();
+    llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmParser();
+
+#ifdef HAVE_TARGET_AARCH64
+    LLVMInitializeAArch64Target();
+    LLVMInitializeAArch64TargetInfo();
+    LLVMInitializeAArch64TargetMC();
+    LLVMInitializeAArch64AsmPrinter();
+    LLVMInitializeAArch64AsmParser();
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_TARGET_X86
+    LLVMInitializeX86Target();
+    LLVMInitializeX86TargetInfo();
+    LLVMInitializeX86TargetMC();
+    LLVMInitializeX86AsmPrinter();
+    LLVMInitializeX86AsmParser();
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_TARGET_WASM
+    LLVMInitializeWebAssemblyTarget();
+    LLVMInitializeWebAssemblyTargetInfo();
+    LLVMInitializeWebAssemblyTargetMC();
+    LLVMInitializeWebAssemblyAsmPrinter();
+    LLVMInitializeWebAssemblyAsmParser();
+#endif
+
+    context = std::make_unique<llvm::LLVMContext>();
+
+    if (t != "")
+        target_triple = t;
+    else
+        target_triple = LLVMGetDefaultTargetTriple();
+
+    std::string Error;
+    const llvm::Target *target = llvm::TargetRegistry::lookupTarget(target_triple, Error);
+    if (!target) {
+        throw LCompilersException(Error);
+    }
+    std::string CPU = "generic";
+    std::string features = "";
+    llvm::TargetOptions opt;
+    RM_OPTIONAL_TYPE<llvm::Reloc::Model> RM = llvm::Reloc::Model::PIC_;
+    TM = target->createTargetMachine(target_triple, CPU, features, opt, RM);
+
+    _lfortran_stan(0.5);
+}
+
+LLVMEvaluator::~LLVMEvaluator()
+{
+    context.reset();
+}
+
+void LLVMEvaluator::save_object_file(llvm::Module &m, const std::string &filename) {
+    m.setTargetTriple(target_triple);
+    m.setDataLayout(TM->createDataLayout());
+
+    llvm::legacy::PassManager pass;
+    llvm::CodeGenFileType ft = llvm::CGFT_ObjectFile;
+    std::error_code EC;
+    llvm::raw_fd_ostream dest(filename, EC, llvm::sys::fs::OF_None);
+    if (EC) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("raw_fd_ostream failed");
+    }
+    if (TM->addPassesToEmitFile(pass, dest, nullptr, ft)) {
+        throw std::runtime_error("TargetMachine can't emit a file of this type");
+    }
+    pass.run(m);
+    dest.flush();
+}
+
+void LLVMEvaluator::opt(llvm::Module &m) {
+    m.setTargetTriple(target_triple);
+    m.setDataLayout(TM->createDataLayout());
+
+    llvm::legacy::PassManager mpm;
+    mpm.add(new llvm::TargetLibraryInfoWrapperPass(TM->getTargetTriple()));
+    mpm.add(llvm::createTargetTransformInfoWrapperPass(TM->getTargetIRAnalysis()));
+    llvm::legacy::FunctionPassManager fpm(&m);
+    fpm.add(llvm::createTargetTransformInfoWrapperPass(TM->getTargetIRAnalysis()));
+
+    int optLevel = 3;
+    int sizeLevel = 0;
+    llvm::PassManagerBuilder builder;
+    builder.OptLevel = optLevel;
+    builder.SizeLevel = sizeLevel;
+    builder.Inliner = llvm::createFunctionInliningPass(optLevel, sizeLevel,
+        false);
+    builder.DisableUnrollLoops = false;
+    builder.LoopVectorize = true;
+    builder.SLPVectorize = true;
+    builder.populateFunctionPassManager(fpm);
+    builder.populateModulePassManager(mpm);
+
+    fpm.doInitialization();
+    for (llvm::Function &func : m) {
+        fpm.run(func);
+    }
+    fpm.doFinalization();
+
+    mpm.add(llvm::createVerifierPass());
+    mpm.run(m);
+}
+
+std::string LLVMEvaluator::module_to_string(llvm::Module &m) {
+    std::string buf;
+    llvm::raw_string_ostream os(buf);
+    m.print(os, nullptr);
+    os.flush();
+    return buf;
+}
+
+llvm::LLVMContext &LLVMEvaluator::get_context()
+{
+    return *context;
+}
+
+std::string LLVMEvaluator::get_default_target_triple()
+{
+    return llvm::sys::getDefaultTargetTriple();
+}
+
+} // namespace LCompilers
diff --git a/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h b/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b16318c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libasr/codegen/c_evaluator.h
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#ifndef LFORTRAN_EVALUATOR_H
+#define LFORTRAN_EVALUATOR_H
+
+#include <complex>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <memory>
+
+#include <libasr/alloc.h>
+#include <libasr/asr_scopes.h>
+#include <libasr/asr.h>
+#include <libasr/utils.h>
+
+// Forward declare all needed LLVM classes without importing any LLVM header
+// files. Those are only imported in evaluator.cpp and nowhere else, to speed
+// up compilation.
+namespace llvm {
+    class ExecutionEngine;
+    class LLVMContext;
+    class Module;
+    class Function;
+    class TargetMachine;
+}
+
+namespace LCompilers {
+
+class LLVMModule
+{
+public:
+    std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> m_m;
+    LLVMModule(std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> m);
+    ~LLVMModule();
+    std::string str();
+    // Return a function return type as a string (real / integer)
+    std::string get_return_type(const std::string &fn_name);
+};
+
+class LLVMEvaluator
+{
+private:
+    std::unique_ptr<llvm::LLVMContext> context;
+    std::string target_triple;
+    llvm::TargetMachine *TM;
+public:
+    LLVMEvaluator(const std::string &t = "");
+    ~LLVMEvaluator();
+    void save_object_file(llvm::Module &m, const std::string &filename);
+    void opt(llvm::Module &m);
+    static std::string module_to_string(llvm::Module &m);
+    llvm::LLVMContext &get_context();
+    static std::string get_default_target_triple();
+};
+
+
+} // namespace LCompilers
+
+#endif // LFORTRAN_EVALUATOR_H