1 This is Parrot, version 0.4.1
2 -----------------------------
4 Parrot is Copyright (C) 2001-2006, The Perl Foundation.
11 This code is distributed under the same license as Perl 5; you can
12 redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
14 a) the GNU General Public License as found in the directory "LICENSES"
16 b) the "Artistic License" which can be found in the directory "LICENSES"
18 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either
21 the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
26 You'll need a C compiler, a linker and a make program of course. If you
27 will be linking with the ICU library you have to download and install it
28 before configuring Parrot.
30 Get it from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp
32 You'll also need Perl 5.6 or above to run various configure and
35 For most of the platforms that we are supporting initially,
36 Parrot should build out of the box.
37 The list of targeted platforms can be found in PLATFORMS.
39 The current configure system is primitive, as it's only
40 a temporary solution. It will be happy with most any answers
41 you decide to feed it. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
46 For now, unpack your Parrot tarball, (if you're reading this, you've
47 probably already done that) and type
51 to run the Configure script. The Configure.pl script extracts
52 configuration from the running perl5 program. Unfortunately, the perl5
53 configuration is not set up to compile and link c++ programs, so you
54 may need to explicitly tell Configure.pl which compiler and linker to
55 use. For example, to compile C files with 'cc', C++ files with
56 'CC', and link everything together with 'CC', you would type
58 perl Configure.pl --cc=cc --cxx=CC --link=CC --ld=CC
60 See "perl Configure.pl --help" for more options.
62 For systems like HPUX that don't have inet_pton please run
64 perl Configure.pl --define=inet_aton
66 If you want to install Parrot into a non-standard location use
68 perl Configure.pl --prefix=/Users/foo/parrot-0.4.1
70 Running Configure.pl will generate a config.h header, a Parrot::Config
71 module, platform files and some Makefiles.
73 The file "myconfig" has an overview of configure settings.
77 For UNIX like systems that come with its own make, 'gmake' should be
78 used. (On most Linux systems, this is the default make.)
80 On windows systems, 'nmake' is used
82 On other systems, just try 'make'
84 Now, the interpreter should build. If you are building the ICU library
85 (this is the default on most systems), you need to use GNU make instead
86 (or something compatible with it).
88 You can test parrot by running
90 make test (or nmake test or gmake test)
92 You can run the full test suite with
96 Note: PLATFORMS contains notes about whether test failures are expected
99 On some systems you can install parrot:
103 This installs a bunch of files in /usr/local. The parrot executable is in
104 /usr/local/bin. Please note that this feature is currently experimental.
106 You can install into a different location with:
108 make install --prefix=/home/foo/bar
110 But please note that dynamic libs will not be found for non-standard
111 locations unless you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar.
113 Look at docs/parrot.pod and docs/intro.pod for where to go from here. If you
114 have any problems, see the section "Reporting Problems" in docs/intro.pod.
115 These documents are in POD format. You can view these files with:
117 perldoc -F docs/intro.pod
122 On some older computers with little RAM, the computed-goto dispatch core
123 (ops/core_ops_cg.c) may take a while to compile or may fail to compile at all.
124 You can pass a flag to Configure.pl (--cgoto=0) to disable the computed-goto
125 core, at a slight cost in runtime speed.
130 For documentation on the user-visible changes between this version and
131 previous versions, please see NEWS.
136 The docs/BROKEN file lists other major subsystems and regressions that block
142 The mailing list for parrot is perl6-internals. Subscribe by sending mail to
143 perl6-internals-subscribe@perl.org. It is archived at
144 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals
145 and available via NNTP at nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.internals
147 You can also read the list via Google Groups at
148 http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals
153 The following web sites have all the Parrot information you need:
154 http://www.parrotcode.org/
155 http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
156 http://bugs6.perl.org/
158 http://www.poniecode.org/