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# Rakudo Star

Rakudo Star is a user-oriented distribution of the Raku programming language,
and a number of common community modules.

This git repository contains _only_ the tools needed to create a Rakudo Star
distribution, not the sources of individual components of the distribution.
These are fetched when you build the distribution tarball.

The `tar` files available from `github.com` for MoarVM, NQP and Rakudo are NOT
suitable for building Rakudo Star; do not use them. Instead, use the tarballs
found on the individual projects' sites, which correctly contain all the
utilities and dependencies used by them.

## Get Rakudo Star

To get the latest release of Rakudo Star, please download the corresponding
file depending on your platform.

- [Linux](https://rakudo.org/latest/star/source)
- [Windows](https://rakudo.org/latest/star/win64)
- [macOS](https://rakudo.org/latest/star/macos)

## Build Rakudo Star

If you're a Rakudo Star release manager, or someone who wants to create a
user-friendly Raku distribution based on the tools here, check the `guides`
directory. This contains documentation on how to make a Rakudo Star tarball, as
well as information on how to create Windows `.msi` and MacOS `.dmg` packages.