Yes I tried the --gen-parrot and it had a similar problem. For the below, I did a clean svn checkout of parrot and git clone. For parrot I did
$ perl Configure.pl $ make $ make fulltest $ make install $ make install-dev However that didn't copy cygparrot.dll to /usr/local/bin and the parrot.dll.a to /usr/local/lib so I copied those manually. So clearly make install-dev isnt' quite working. What else could be missing - there is quite a lot of stuff already copied from the build directory to /usr/local. For perl6 I did $ perl Configure.pl $ make ... bag! -----Original Message----- From: Moritz Lenz [mailto:mor...@faui2k3.org] Sent: 10 February 2010 20:27 To: neil.mowb...@calgacus.com Cc: perl6-compi...@perl.org Subject: Re: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success Hi, neil.mowb...@calgacus.com wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This is the first time I have tried to compile parrot and perl6. > I have tried various combinations of perl6 and parrot snapshots > but all perl6 builds fail (at different places). Can anyone help > me get a clean build? > > For example getting the latest parrot from svn truck and perl6 > from github I can build parrot 2.0.0 with all tests passing but > the build of perl6 fails with Did you try the perl Configure --gen-parrot invocation as described in rakudo's README file? If not, which commands did you use for building? > --------------------------------------------- > > /usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cp src/s1_setting.pir > src/gen_setting.pir > /usr/local/bin/parrot.exe -o perl6_s1.pbc perl6.pir > error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting '(' > in file 'perl6.pir' line 29 This looks like some dynamic parrot or rakudo libraries are missing, but in normal circumstances you don't get such an error. Did you do a full 'make install' of parrot? (Can be a local install, but it must be installed). A 'make install-bin' won't be enough. Cheers, Moritz