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• Installable! (Score:1)

  by david_on_cpan (9371)

  Running "make install" will install Rakudo and its libraries into the Parrot installation that was used to build it, and then the executables will work when invoked from any directory.

  So this means that (a) it can be installed as a package and (b) real live scripts in random directories can use it? Yay! This has been holding me back from playing with it.
• Windows or Cygwin? (Score:1)

  by furry_marmot (9372)

  Can it be installed under Windows at this point? If not, how about under Cygwin?
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by JonathanWorthington (6049)

    Certainly I've tested it on WinXP + MS VC++ and it seems to work fine. The release didn't quite work on MinGW if you wanted to compile with ICU, but we've had a patch submitted/applied to fix that since. Cygwin, I'm afraid I'm not sure about.

    Thanks,

    Jonathan
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by furry_marmot (9372)

      I apologize. I should have been more specific, though I just visited the "How to get Rakudo Perl 6" and got an answer to my question.

      I (like most Windows users) don't have a C compiler and have never been a C/C++/C# developer. I was a Perl/DB/Network developer for a long time and, since moving out of development, have continued using Perl to create tools and systems to help me in my work, which requires Windows. Oh well.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by JonathanWorthington (6049)

        Ah, I see. fperrad++ does produce binary builds of each Parrot release and the Rakudo development release that matches up with it. You can find the Parrot build and the Rakudo add-on (two downloads, Parrot-1.5.0 and Parrot-1.5.0-Rakudo-20) at:

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/parrotwin32/files/

        Hope this helps,

        Jonathan
        • Re: (Score:1)

          by furry_marmot (9372)

          Oh cool! I had looked around, but missed that.

          Thanks,
          marmot