Installing Rakudo

While there are monthly releases of Parrot and separately releases of Rakudo but you cannot really "install" them yet. Besides their development is still so fast that I'd recommend using the latest as checked out from their respective version controls system. That's what I am going to describe in the next slides.

In the first version I'll describe the method for Linux and later for Windows as well

Currently the recommended way to install Rakudo is the following:

For this you'll need to have Subversion and Git installed:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir somedir
$ cd somedir
$ git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git
$ cd rakudo
$ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
$ make spectest

For up-to-date instructions, please visit the Rakudo web site at http://rakudo.org/

It can be done in an almost identical way on Windows if you have Strawberry Perl installed