RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
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

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
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 correct things, but I don't know what I'm looking for, that is, what it's failing to install corre

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
Using a clean git clone I went back and tried perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot which failed in a new way: /work/solon/neilmowbray/tool/foo/rakudo/parrot_install/src/2.0.0-devel/pmc/s ub.dump /work/solon/neilmowbray/tool/foo/rakudo/parrot_install/src/2.0.0-devel/pmc/u nde

RE: New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
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

New user trying to compiler perl6 without success

2010-02-10 Thread Neil.Mowbray
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 gi