Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

[Stefan Parvu]

Hi,

Any experiments with Perl6/Parrot and Solaris Express
or Solaris 10 ? Im curious how much the language has
changed and how well the new VM would work in Solaris
...

Is there any Solaris x86 or sparc package of the new
Parrot VM ?

thanks,

[Andy Dougherty]

I'm not aware of any pre-built packages, but the Parrot VM should build
and past most of its tests on either Solaris x86 or SPARC.

There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is considerable development in
the Pugs project http://www.pugscode.org . In order to run pugs, you'll
need the ghc Haskell compiler http://www.haskell.org/ghc/. In order to
build ghc, you need a pre-existing ghc, though there are some binary
packages available.

There is no pre-built Solaris/x86 ghc package. There is one for
Solaris/SPARC, but you'll have to install some additional libraries first.
(See the ghc download page for details.) Last time I checked, not all
those libraries built for me on Solaris 8, so I was never able to get ghc
(and hence pugs) up and running. You may have better luck on Solaris 10,
or the libraries may have been fixed since then.

Hope this helps,

--
Andy Dougherty doug...@lafayette.edu

[Stefan Parvu]

> I'm not aware of any pre-built packages, but the
> Parrot VM should build
> and past most of its tests on either Solaris x86 or
> SPARC.

Right. I will give a spin under Solaris Express (aka
Nevada, Solaris 11) AMD64.

>
> There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is
> considerable development in
> the Pugs project http://www.pugscode.org . In order
> to run pugs, you'll

To run Perl6 do I need Pugs ? I understood I would
need only the new Parrot VM ? Isn't that right ?

thanks,
Stefan

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:09:33PM +0100, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> >
> > There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is
> > considerable development in
> > the Pugs project http://www.pugscode.org . In order
> > to run pugs, you'll
>
> To run Perl6 do I need Pugs ? I understood I would
> need only the new Parrot VM ? Isn't that right ?

Eventually. When there's a perl6 compiler that's based on parrot.
Right now, the only usable implementation of perl6 that we have is
pugs.

-Scott
--
Jonathan Scott Duff
du...@pobox.com

[Stefan Parvu]

Great, thanks a lot for answers. I will have to setup
myself a test environment for Perl 6. I will report
later my findings about this project.

The goal would be to stay and test as much as I can
Perl 6 under Solaris 10 and Express. I have AMD64
systems running Solaris so this would be the main
platform. This will help the Perl community to have a
good taste of Solaris when Perl 6 would be out :=)

Cheers,
Stefan

Stefan Parvu
Blog: http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com