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| author | Moritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org> | 2014-04-18 14:28:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Moritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org> | 2014-04-18 14:29:00 +0200 |
| commit | 6abe2713befff14db838580e55277bedde39df5a (patch) | |
| tree | c4c14084e55d400a58c5535e79de71cf2e4f963a /README | |
| parent | db239386952c0c7a1bd1cd194b9449ee159e56ee (diff) | |
udpate README, and version in Makefile.in
README is still not quite tristar ready
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters". -This is the 2014.03 release of Rakudo Star. +This is the 2014.04 release of Rakudo Star. Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2014 by the Rakudo Star Team. @@ -18,15 +18,19 @@ and Perl 5.9.0 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair amount of memory available: 1GB is known to be too small for building Rakudo, while 2GB is generally known to be sufficient. -In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the +In order to fully support Unicode on the parrot backend, you'll also +want to have the ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/). Rakudo can run without ICU, but some Unicode-related features will not work properly. +For the JVM Backend, you also need the Java Development kit, for example +openjdk-7 or the Oracle JDK. + On Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu Linux, the necessary components for building Rakudo can be installed via the command - aptitude install build-essential libicu-dev + aptitude install build-essential libicu-dev openjdk-7-jdk Readline support also requires the "libreadline-dev" library. @@ -40,7 +44,7 @@ Building Rakudo Star -------------------- The basic steps to build Rakudo Star are: - $ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot + $ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot --gen-moar $ make $ make install @@ -63,7 +67,8 @@ to your PATH environment variable. The "--gen-parrot" option above tells Configure.pl to automatically build and install the version of Parrot that is distributed with -Rakudo Star. The "--prefix=" option can be provided to Configure.pl +Rakudo Star. Likewise "--gen-moar" builds the MoarVM distributed with +Rakudo Star. The "--prefix=" option can be provided to Configure.pl to change the location of the install directory. Note that Rakudo based on Parrot can only be installed to the same prefix as Parrot. |