In the new POW version of Parrot there is no Configure.pl so I can't
compile. Since all I get are "Can't find MSVC" errors I can't follow
Leo's advice on CPAN.

Nmake has done nothing for me either on the CVS tar.zip I attempted to make.

As you can see, I'm not a Unix guy. I'd love to experiment with Parrot
though since I love assembly language.

I'm pretty competent reporting errors but I've never been able to get
this to work (about 4 months ago).

If someone could walk me through this it'd be great. I've searched for
quite some time and am very tired of trying a bunch of things that I
can't get to work.

Help,

Christian Lott

Nicholas Clark

The website mentions Jonathan Worthington as the maintainer.

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"Do you hvae msvc (cl.exe) in the path?"

No. I thought I did but looks like I don't...

It's at c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ 2003\bin\cl.exe

How would I set the path without overwriting my previous settings?

set PATH=%PATH%;c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ 2003\bin\

"Possily he means http://www.jwcs.net/developers/perl/pow/ but that
seems to have precompiled for windows parrot binaries with no source.
The website mentions Jonathan Worthington as the maintainer. "

Yes. That's the one.

Now what?

I think the problem is that imc.vim.in needs to go through ops2vim.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl imc.vim.in imc.vim
Can't open imc.vim: No such file or directory at ops2vim.pl line 8, <>
line 85.
syn keyword imcOp

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl imc.vim imc.vim.in
Can't open imc.vim: No such file or directory at ops2vim.pl line 7.
syn keyword imcOp

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl imc.vim.in
syn keyword imcOp

This is in the .NET window (MSVC).

I'm placing these files into the /vimfiles directory which is adjacent
to the vim63 directory both of which are under the VIM directory.

Ok. Just downloaded it at -

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcrtd

placed it in the MSVC \bin directory and typed "perl t\harness"

At the end this is what I got:

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t/library/streams..............ok 21/21# Looks like you failed 2 tests
of 21.
t/library/streams..............dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
DIED. FAILED tests 14, 18
        Failed 2/21 tests, 90.48% okay
Failed Test           Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
imcc/t/imcpasm/cfg.t     3   768     3    3 100.00%  1-3
imcc/t/imcpasm/opt0.t    6  1536     6    6 100.00%  1-6
imcc/t/imcpasm/opt1.t   47 12032    49   47  95.92%  1-47
imcc/t/imcpasm/pcc.t     1   256    11    1   9.09%  1
imcc/t/imcpasm/sub.t     2   512     2    2 100.00%  1-2
t/library/streams.t      2   512    21    2   9.52%  14 18
t/pmc/nci.t              6  1536    46    6  13.04%  33 35-37 42-43
t/pmc/perlnum.t          1   256    43    1   2.33%  36
t/pmc/sub.t            255 65280    76   28  36.84%  63-76
6 tests and 54 subtests skipped.
Failed 9/111 test scripts, 91.89% okay. 82/1859 subtests failed, 95.59%
okay.

C:\parrot>
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Sound right?

Thanks Johnathan.

I get frustrated and side tracked really easy when I have no idea what
I'm doing. My fault.

Christian

imc.vim: imc.vim.in ../ops/*.ops
   cp -f imc.vim.in imc.vim
   perl ops2vim.pl ../ops/*.ops >> imc.vim

so basically you want to feed all the 'ops' files into ops2vim.pl and then
tack the output onto the end of imc.vim.in to make imc.vim.

There are a bunch of other editor-relevant files there, check
editor/README.pod for info; just replace ~/.vim with wherever\vimfiles, and
~/.vimrc with wherever\_vimrc.

Cheers
hobbs

C:\parrot\editor>cp -f imc.vim.in imc.vim
'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl ../ops/*.ops >> imc.vim
Can't open ../ops/*.ops: No such file or directory at ops2vim.pl line 7.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl ..docs/ops/*.ops >> imc.vim
Can't open ..docs/ops/*.ops: No such file or directory at ops2vim.pl line 7.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl ..parrot/docs/ops/*.ops >> imc.vim
Can't open ..parrot/docs/ops/*.ops: No such file or directory at
ops2vim.pl line
 7.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl c:\parrot\docs\ops\*.ops >> imc.vim
Can't open c:\parrot\docs\ops\*.ops: Invalid argument at ops2vim.pl line 7.

C:\parrot\editor>perl ops2vim.pl c:\parrot/docs/ops/*.ops >> imc.vim
Can't open c:\parrot/docs/ops/*.ops: Invalid argument at ops2vim.pl line 7.

C:\parrot\editor>
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The only ops directory I have is under the docs directory. I assume
ops2vim will parse it:

#! perl -w

my $cline = my $prefix = 'syn keyword imcOp';

my %seen;

while (<>) {
    if (/\bop \s+ (\w+) \s* \(/x) {
        next if $seen{$1}++;
        if (length($1) + length($cline) > 72) {
            print "$cline\n";
            $cline = $prefix;
        }
        $cline .= " $1";
    }

Would I be better served on the Active State Command Line Interpreter or
stick to the .NET prompt?

Christian