Howdy, I would recommend that you embed parrot in whatever you are calling your code, as a subsystem. Then your users only have to install your (binary) application, and have no Parrot-related dependencies. If they want to compile your code, then they will need an installed Parrot.
If you want a good example of how to embed Parrot, take a look at PL/Parrot [0], which embeds Parrot in PostgreSQL. Duke [0] - http://pl.parrot.org On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > But I was thinking that an embedded API would more usability sense as I would > for instance want my code generator 2 av a mechanism of getting parrot > response about d executed PIR...in case there r runtime errors I want parrot > 2 expose an interface 4 my PIR code generator so that I could thus display > within my compiler output window. This is an important requirement 4 my > compiler. Any solution 2 this ? > Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:17:04 > To: adekoya adekunle<[email protected]> > Cc: parrot-dev<[email protected]>; > NotFound<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; > Jonathan Leto<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Parrot-users] Starting to Use Parrot > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:07 PM, adekoya adekunle > <[email protected]> wrote: >> But another question...if I target parrot by generating a PIR from my >> code generator...that means for users of my compiler to be able to run >> the PIR code that would be invisibly generated by my code generator it >> means a Parrot VM must run on the user machine ? (1) > > Yes. To use the functionality in libparrot, you would need to include > libparrot with your software, or the user would have to have it as a > prerequisite on their machines. > >> If yes to above...then how do I package the parrot VM along with my >> compiler so that a end-user of my compiler that installs my compiler >> on his machine would automatically have parrot install as well ? (2) > > Depends on the platform. For windows, there exist binary installers (I > think?) to get Parrot installed. For linux, you can build from source > or download packages from various package installers. Some of the > packaged versions may be a little old, however. If you're on linux, > you can almost certainly build it from source without much effort. > >> And when my compiler needs to invoke the parrot machine to execute the >> PIR code generated by my compiler...would i simply call parrot.exe >> like i do from the command line ? (3) > > At the moment, the answer is "YES". You would need to pass the > generated code to parrot.exe. We are in the middle of creating a new > embedding API, and when that is ready you will be able to easily call > libparrot directly from your program. > >> Does parrot support creating GUI widgets ? (4) > > What kind of GUI widgets? Parrot is just a VM, people can write GUI > applications on top of it with the right plugins, libraries, and > bindings. I have seen some bindings to get OpenGL and GTK applications > on Parrot. Others could easily be created too, by an interested > developer. > > I would very much like to hear about what kinds of things you are > planning to do with Parrot. Do you use IRC? Developers hang out in > #parrot on irc.parrot.org if you want to chat. > > --Andrew Whitworth > -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
