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| author | Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> | 2011-06-07 09:42:02 +0300 |
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| committer | Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> | 2011-06-07 09:42:02 +0300 |
| commit | 81c1fdcfedca9a52a03ce1f13707dc5633af1ad5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bde9abd1b1029eb4396dcd3cd1b10eec08f5a21 /win32/rakudo.txt | |
| parent | ff57d8f91a9a2e23ba5e4b355041dc2dad48459b (diff) | |
add files needed to build the Windows Installer of Rakudo Star
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diff --git a/win32/rakudo.txt b/win32/rakudo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a63adc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/win32/rakudo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +This directory is for building the Windows installer for Rakudo Star. + +You will need +- Strawberry Perl (eg. the one that comes with Padre from + http://padre.perlide.org/download.html ) + padre-0.84-on-strawberry-5.12.3.0-v3.exe +- Inno Setup from http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php + 5.4.2(a) + +Download The source distribution of Rakudo Star from https://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads +ptar -xzf rakudo-star-2011.04.tar.gz +cd rakudo-star-2011.04 + +As currently the executable is not relocatable we need to decide +which directory to install. Currently it is c:\rakudo + +Follow the insturctions in the README of Rakudo Star: + +> perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot --prefix c:\rakudo +> gmake +> gmake install + +Manually copy c:\strawberry\c\bin\libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll to c:\rakudo\bin + +Create a directory called c:\output where the resulting executable will be placed. +Then start the Inno Setup Compiler and open the rakudo.iss file. +Change the "AppVersion" field. + +Click on "Build/Compile" + +This should generate c:\output\rakudo-star.exe + |