1 This is Parrot, version 0.5.2
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4 Parrot is Copyright (C) 2001-2008, The Perl 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://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp
23 You also need Perl 5.8.0 or newer to run various configure and build scripts.
25 For most of the platforms that we are supporting initially, Parrot should build
26 out of the box. The list of targeted platforms can be found in PLATFORMS.
28 The current configure system is primitive, as it's only
29 a temporary solution. It will be happy with most any answers
30 you decide to feed it. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
35 For now, unpack your Parrot tarball, (if you're reading this, you've
36 probably already done that) and type
40 to run the Configure script. The Configure.pl script extracts
41 configuration from the running perl5 program. Unfortunately, the perl5
42 configuration is not set up to compile and link c++ programs, so you
43 may need to explicitly tell Configure.pl which compiler and linker to
44 use. For example, to compile C files with 'cc', C++ files with
45 'CC', and link everything together with 'CC', you would type
47 perl Configure.pl --cc=cc --cxx=CC --link=CC --ld=CC
49 See "perl Configure.pl --help" for more options.
51 For systems like HPUX that don't have inet_pton please run
53 perl Configure.pl --define=inet_aton
55 Running Configure.pl will generate a config.h header, a Parrot::Config
56 module, platform files and some Makefiles.
58 The file "myconfig" has an overview of configure settings.
62 For UNIX like systems that come with its own make, 'gmake' should be
63 used. (On most Linux systems, this is the default make.)
65 On windows systems, 'nmake' is used
67 On other systems, just try 'make'
69 Now, the interpreter should build. If you are building the ICU library
70 (this is the default on most systems), you need to use GNU make instead
71 (or something compatible with it).
73 NOTE: If you have trouble linking parrot, this *may* be due to a pre-existing
74 parrot version installed via 'make install'. Until this issue is resolved,
75 you may have to delete the installed version of parrot before building a new
78 You can test parrot by running
80 make test (or nmake test or gmake test)
82 You can run the full test suite with
86 Note: PLATFORMS contains notes about whether test failures are expected
89 On some systems you can install parrot:
93 This installs a bunch of files in /usr/local. The parrot executable is in
94 /usr/local/bin. Please note that this feature is currently experimental.
96 If you want to install Parrot into a non-standard location use:
98 perl Configure.pl --prefix=/Users/foo/parrot-0.5.0
101 But please note that dynamic libs will not be found for non-standard
102 locations unless you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar.
104 Look at docs/parrot.pod and docs/intro.pod for where to go from here. If you
105 have any problems, see the section "How To Submit A Bug Report" in
106 docs/submissions.pod These documents are in POD format. You can view these
107 files with the command:
109 perldoc -F docs/intro.pod
114 On some older computers with little RAM, the computed-goto dispatch core
115 (ops/core_ops_cg.c) may take a while to compile or may fail to compile at all.
116 You can pass a flag to Configure.pl (--cgoto=0) to disable the computed-goto
117 core, at a slight cost in runtime speed.
122 For documentation on the user-visible changes between this version and
123 previous versions, please see NEWS.
128 The mailing list for parrot is parrot-porters. Subscribe by sending mail to
129 parrot-porters-subscribe@perl.org. It is archived at
130 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals
131 and available via NNTP at nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.internals
133 You can also read the list via Google Groups at
134 http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals
136 FEEDBACK, PATCHES, etc.
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139 See F<docs/submissions.pod> for more information on reporting bugs and
145 The following web sites have all the Parrot information you need:
146 http://www.parrotcode.org/
147 http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
148 http://bugs6.perl.org/perl6/