No, to scrapped all the old versions off (several times ...). -----Original Message----- From: Will Coleda [mailto:w...@coleda.com] Sent: 11 February 2010 00:15 To: neil.mowb...@calgacus.com Cc: Gerd Pokorra; perl6-compi...@perl.org Subject: Re: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, <neil.mowb...@calgacus.com> wrote: > Alas I need a cygwin build. > > The cygwin parrot package is quite old at 0.8.1. > > I'm surprised to have such difficulty building under cygwin. > It seems that parrot $ make install-dev isn't installing the Please note that 'install-dev' is no longer necessary on parrot; 'install' is sufficient [0] Do you still have the old parrot version installed? Old versions of parrot definitely had problems with a conflicting installed version. (Newer versions are, I think, more forgiving about this.) > correct things, but I don't know what I'm looking for, that is, > what it's failing to install correctly. To the unexperienced > the build error provides no indication. > > Regards, Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerd Pokorra [mailto:g...@zimt.uni-siegen.de] > Sent: 10 February 2010 22:57 > To: neil.mowb...@calgacus.com > Cc: perl6-compi...@perl.org > Subject: RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success > > Hi Neil, > > there exists already packages in cygwin for rakudo and parrot. Reini > Urban put them in. I don't not know about the current version number. > > But rakudo and parrot should build out of the box under Windows. > You don't need cygwin. > The last time I build Rakudo under Windows I installed: > > MinGW, git and subversion > > With that it builds out of the box the last time I tried it. > > > If you need to build under cygwin, may be Reini Urban will help. > > > -- Gerd > > [0] Or, in your case, equally insufficient. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
