1 This is Parrot, version 1.4.0
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4 Parrot is Copyright (C) 2001-2009, Parrot Foundation.
11 This code is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
12 For more details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.
17 You need a C compiler, a linker, and a make program of course. If you will be
18 linking with the ICU library you have to download and install it before
21 Get it from http://site.icu-project.org/download
23 You also need Perl 5.8.4 or newer, Storable 2.12 or newer, and Bundle::Parrot
24 to run various configure and build scripts.
26 For most of the platforms that we are supporting initially, Parrot should build
27 out of the box. PLATFORM lists our target platforms.
32 For now, unpack your Parrot tarball, (if you're reading this, you've
33 probably already done that) and type
37 to run the Configure script. The Configure.pl script extracts
38 configuration from the running perl5 program. Unfortunately, the perl5
39 configuration is not set up to compile and link c++ programs, so you
40 may need to explicitly tell Configure.pl which compiler and linker to
41 use. For example, to compile C files with 'cc', C++ files with
42 'CC', and link everything together with 'CC', you would type
44 perl Configure.pl --cc=cc --cxx=CC --link=CC --ld=CC
46 See "perl Configure.pl --help" for more options and docs/configuration.pod
49 For systems like HPUX that don't have inet_pton please run
51 perl Configure.pl --define=inet_aton
53 Running Configure.pl will generate a config.h header, a Parrot::Config
54 module, platform files and many Makefiles.
56 The file "myconfig" has an overview of configure settings.
58 Next, run make. (Configure.pl will tell you which version of make it
59 recommends for your system.)
61 Now, the interpreter should build. If you are building the ICU library
62 (this is the default on most systems), you need to use GNU make instead
63 (or something compatible with it).
65 You can test Parrot by running "make test". You can run the tests in parallel
66 with "make TEST_JOBS=3 test".
68 You can run the full test suite with
72 Note: PLATFORMS contains notes about whether test failures are expected
75 You can install Parrot with:
79 By default, this installs in /usr/local, with the Parrot executable in
80 /usr/local/bin. If you want to install Parrot into another location use:
82 perl Configure.pl --prefix=/Users/foo/parrot-0.7.0
85 But please note that dynamic libs will not be found for non-standard
86 locations unless you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar.
88 Look at docs/parrot.pod and docs/intro.pod for where to go from here. If you
89 have any problems, see the section "How To Submit A Bug Report" in
90 docs/submissions.pod. These documents are in POD format. You can view these
91 files with the command:
93 perldoc -F docs/intro.pod
98 On some older computers with little RAM, the computed-goto dispatch core
99 (ops/core_ops_cg.c) may take a while to compile or may fail to compile at all.
100 You can pass a flag to Configure.pl (--cgoto=0) to disable the computed-goto
101 core, at a slight cost in runtime speed.
106 For documentation on the user-visible changes between this version and
107 previous versions, please see NEWS.
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119 See F<docs/submissions.pod> for more information on reporting bugs and
125 The following web sites have all the information you need about Parrot:
126 http://www.parrot.org/
127 http://trac.parrot.org/