Building november on Vista

[Lyle]

Hi All,
I thought I'd have a stab at building november on Vista with the aim
to get it working through IIS.

I've managed to get so far. I had to update Makefile.in to have $
(PARROT_DIR)/parrot.exe instead of $(PARROT_DIR)/parrot, similar for
Makefile.PL.

I've includes patches for Makefile.in and .PL at the end of this
message.

nmake doesn't work with the error

"NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'lib/
November.pir'"

But MinGW make works most of the way:-

mingw32-make

c:\temp\rakudo\parrot/parrot.exe c:\temp\rakudo/perl6.pbc --target=pir
--output=
lib/November.pir lib/November.pm
Can't find ./HTML/Template in @INC
... lots of other info ...


HTML/Template isn't in the lib folder with everything else:-
http://github.com/viklund/november/tree/3f8cb3ff8f81585de9b363929183707238947349/lib

Do I need to get it from somewhere else?


Thanks in advance for your help.


Lyle

P.S. Patches to follow...


--- Makefile.in.orig Mon Apr 06 19:21:47 2009
+++ Makefile.in Mon Apr 06 19:21:10 2009
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+PARROT_EXEC=<PARROT_EXEC>
PARROT_DIR=<PARROT_DIR>
RAKUDO_DIR=<RAKUDO_DIR>

@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
all: $(PIRS)

%.pir: %.pm
- $(PARROT_DIR)/parrot $(RAKUDO_DIR)/perl6.pbc --target=pir --output=
$@ $<
+ $(PARROT_DIR)/$(PARROT_EXEC) $(RAKUDO_DIR)/perl6.pbc --target=pir --
output=$@ $<

clean:
rm -f $(PIRS)
@@ -22,5 +23,5 @@
tests: test

test: all
- prove -e '$(PARROT_DIR)/parrot $(RAKUDO_DIR)/perl6.pbc'\
+ prove -e '$(PARROT_DIR)/$(PARROT_EXEC) $(RAKUDO_DIR)/perl6.pbc'\
-r --nocolor t/


--- Makefile.PL.orig Mon Apr 06 19:22:00 2009
+++ Makefile.PL Mon Apr 06 19:20:24 2009
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@
$ENV{PERL6LIB}
or die 'Please set $PERL6LIB (see README).'."\n";

+my $parrot_exec = 'parrot';
+$parrot_exec = 'parrot.exe' if ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' );
if ( ! -d $parrot_dir ) {
print STDERR "Not a directory $parrot_dir, exiting...\n";
exit 1;
-} elsif ( ! -x File::Spec->catfile( $parrot_dir, 'parrot' )) {
+} elsif ( ! -x File::Spec->catfile( $parrot_dir, $parrot_exec )) {
print STDERR "Couldn't find parrot executable in $parrot_dir, "
. "have you compiled?\n";
exit 1;
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@
my @infiles = map { $_.'.in' } qw< Makefile test_wiki.sh wiki.sh >;

my %replacements = (
+ PARROT_EXEC => $parrot_exec,
PARROT_DIR => $parrot_dir,
RAKUDO_DIR => $rakudo_dir,
);

[Lyle]

On Apr 6, 7:32 pm, Lyle <webmas...@cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>   I thought I'd have a stab at building november on Vista with the aim
> to get it working through IIS.

Just noticed the other thread pointing to the HTML-Template port on
github. I had to do similar patches again to get the Makefile (patches
at bottom of this message). Win32 doesn't support symlinks but it does
hardlinks. I also changed it so that it looks for RAKUDO_DIR like
november does as following the current Rakudo install guide it doesn't
end up in PARROT_DIR/languages/rakudo

Also I noticed that PERL6LIB only seems to check the last folder. Such
as setting PERL6LIB to multiple folders such as:-
set PERL6LIB=/folder1;/folder2;/folder3

It only looks in /folder3 for the files. Not sure if it's supposed to
do that but it seems wrong. Is that an issue with Rakudo?

After building HTML-Template I copied the lib folder over to november.
Now I'm getting the error

mingw32-make
c:\temp\rakudo\parrot/parrot.exe c:\temp\rakudo/perl6.pbc --target=pir
--output=
lib/November.pir lib/November.pm

Statement not terminated properly at line 33, near ":[\n "

I don't know any Parrot code and hardly any Perl 6 at this time. So
I'm stumpped.


Patches:-



--- Makefile.PL.orig Mon Apr 06 20:01:15 2009
+++ Makefile.PL Mon Apr 06 19:48:57 2009
@@ -9,27 +9,51 @@
my $parrot_dir = $ENV{PARROT_DIR}
or die 'Please set $PARROT_DIR (see README).'."\n";

+my $rakudo_dir = $ENV{RAKUDO_DIR}
+ or die 'Please set $RAKUDO_DIR (see README).'."\n";
+

$ENV{PERL6LIB}
or die 'Please set $PERL6LIB (see README).'."\n";

+my $parrot_exec = 'parrot';
+$parrot_exec = 'parrot.exe' if ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' );
if ( ! -d $parrot_dir ) {
print STDERR "Not a directory $parrot_dir, exiting...\n";
exit 1;
-} elsif ( ! -x File::Spec->catfile( $parrot_dir, 'parrot' )) {
+} elsif ( ! -x File::Spec->catfile( $parrot_dir, $parrot_exec )) {
print STDERR "Couldn't find parrot executable in $parrot_dir, "

. "have you compiled?";
exit 1;
}

+if ( ! -d $rakudo_dir ) {
+ print STDERR "Not a directory $rakudo_dir, exiting...\n";
+ exit 1;
+} elsif ( ! -f File::Spec->catfile( $rakudo_dir, 'perl6.pbc' )) {
+ print STDERR "Couldn't find perl6.pbc file in $rakudo_dir, "
+ . "have you compiled?\n";
+ exit 1;
+}
+
+
my @infiles = map { $_.'.in' } qw< Makefile >;

my %replacements = (
+ PARROT_EXEC => $parrot_exec,
PARROT_DIR => $parrot_dir,

+ RAKUDO_DIR => $rakudo_dir,
);

if ( !-e 'lib/Test.pm' ) {
- !system("ln -s $parrot_dir/languages/rakudo/Test.pm lib/") or die
@!;
- print "Symlinked Test.pm from the Rakudo directory \n";
+ ### Windows only support hard links are requires backslash \
+ if ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' ) {
+ !system("ln $rakudo_dir\\Test.pm lib\\") or die @!;
+ print "Hard linked Test.pm from the Rakudo directory \n";
+ }#if
+ else {
+ !system("ln -s $parrot_dir/languages/rakudo/Test.pm lib/") or
die @!;
+ print "Symlinked Test.pm from the Rakudo directory \n";
+ }#else
}

for my $infile (@infiles) {





--- Makefile.in.orig Mon Apr 06 20:00:40 2009
+++ Makefile.in Mon Apr 06 19:51:32 2009
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+PARROT_EXEC=<PARROT_EXEC>
PARROT_DIR=<PARROT_DIR>
+RAKUDO_DIR=<RAKUDO_DIR>

SOURCES=lib/HTML/Template/Grammar.pm lib/HTML/Template.pm

@@ -7,11 +9,11 @@
all: $(PIRS)

%.pir: %.pm
- $(PARROT_DIR)/parrot $(PARROT_DIR)/languages/rakudo/perl6.pbc --

target=pir --output=$@ $<
+ $(PARROT_DIR)/$(PARROT_EXEC) $(RAKUDO_DIR)/perl6.pbc --target=pir --
output=$@ $<

clean:
rm -f $(PIRS)

test: all
- prove -e '$(PARROT_DIR)/parrot $(PARROT_DIR)/languages/rakudo/

[Carl Mäsak]

Lyle (>):

> Hi All,
> I thought I'd have a stab at building november on Vista with the aim
> to get it working through IIS.

Cool!

> I've managed to get so far. I had to update Makefile.in to have $
> (PARROT_DIR)/parrot.exe instead of $(PARROT_DIR)/parrot, similar for
> Makefile.PL.
>
> I've includes patches for Makefile.in and .PL at the end of this
> message.

Applied, with slight modifications. Thanks!

> nmake doesn't work with the error
>
> "NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'lib/
> November.pir'"

Don't know enough about nmake to know why it fails here. Maybe someone
else on the list does.

> Just noticed the other thread pointing to the HTML-Template port on
> github.

I added some of the explanations from that thread in the README file
of November.

> I had to do similar patches again to get the Makefile (patches
> at bottom of this message). Win32 doesn't support symlinks but it does
> hardlinks. I also changed it so that it looks for RAKUDO_DIR like
> november does as following the current Rakudo install guide it doesn't
> end up in PARROT_DIR/languages/rakudo

Also applied. Thanks!

The whole build system of the different Perl 6 projects out there is
going through a speedy evolution. November's build system, despite
having been updated quite recently, is already completely outdated. :)
Druid's is currently the most modern one; when I have the tuits, I'll
look into cross-pollinating the Windows-detection improvements with
the improved build system of Druid.

> Also I noticed that PERL6LIB only seems to check the last folder. Such
> as setting PERL6LIB to multiple folders such as:-
> set PERL6LIB=/folder1;/folder2;/folder3
>
> It only looks in /folder3 for the files. Not sure if it's supposed to
> do that but it seems wrong. Is that an issue with Rakudo?

Worksforme. But I use colons where you use semicolons -- maybe try the
former instead?

> After building HTML-Template I copied the lib folder over to november.
> Now I'm getting the error
>
> mingw32-make
> c:\temp\rakudo\parrot/parrot.exe c:\temp\rakudo/perl6.pbc --target=pir
> --output=
> lib/November.pir lib/November.pm
> Statement not terminated properly at line 33, near ":[\n       "
>
> I don't know any Parrot code and hardly any Perl 6 at this time. So
> I'm stumpped.

That was a syntax error due to a missing space. All fixed now.

Again, thanks! Best of luck.

// Carl

[Lyle]

Carl Mäsak wrote:
> Lyle (>):

>
>> Also I noticed that PERL6LIB only seems to check the last folder. Such
>> as setting PERL6LIB to multiple folders such as:-
>> set PERL6LIB=/folder1;/folder2;/folder3
>>
>> It only looks in /folder3 for the files. Not sure if it's supposed to
>> do that but it seems wrong. Is that an issue with Rakudo?
>>
>
> Worksforme. But I use colons where you use semicolons -- maybe try the
> former instead?
>

Yes colons work. But the standard windows way is to use semi-colons.
Maybe I should submit that to Rakudo as a bug.

>> I don't know any Parrot code and hardly any Perl 6 at this time. So
>> I'm stumpped.
>>
>
> That was a syntax error due to a missing space. All fixed now.
>
> Again, thanks! Best of luck.
>

That's fixed it :) I had to create a .bat version of test_wiki.sh, here:-

set QS=%1
set PARROT_DIR=c:\temp\rakudo\parrot
set RAKUDO_DIR=c:\temp\rakudo
set REQUEST_METHOD=GET
set SERVER_NAME=test.foo
set SERVER_PORT=80
set REQUEST_URI=%QS%
%PARROT_DIR%/parrot %RAKUDO_DIR%/perl6.pbc wiki

Which works :) Although I'm not sure how I can get it working through
apache. I tried creating wiki.bat:-

#!c:\windows\system32\command.com
PARROT_DIR=c:\temp\rakudo\parrot
RAKUDO_DIR=c:\temp\rakudo
%PARROT_DIR%/parrot.exe %RAKUDO_DIR%/perl6.pbc wiki

Then updated Apache with:-

AddHandler cgi-script .bat
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([^\.]*)$ /cgi-bin/wiki.bat [PT]

But it just tries to download wiki.bat instead of running it.

Shouldn't wiki.sh be replaced with a Perl 6 cgi script? Then we could
easily have something that should work all over? Such as

'wiki.p6'
#!c:\temp\rakudo\perl6.exe
use v6;
### Code to run wiki

Apache:-
AddHandler cgi-script .p6
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([^\.]*)$ /cgi-bin/wiki.p6 [PT]

Or simply name wiki.p6 index.p6 and have DirectoryIndex point to it.
That way it could easily be setup in IIS as well.

Lyle

[Lyle]

Lyle wrote:
> Shouldn't wiki.sh be replaced with a Perl 6 cgi script? Then we could
> easily have something that should work all over? Such as
>
> 'wiki.p6'
> #!c:\temp\rakudo\perl6.exe
> use v6;
> ### Code to run wiki
>
> Apache:-
> AddHandler cgi-script .p6
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/([^\.]*)$ /cgi-bin/wiki.p6 [PT]
>

I tried this. It was as simple as renaming wiki to wiki.p6 and adding

#!c:\temp\rakudo\perl6.exe
to the top. But unfortunately it doesn't work. Apache just hangs. Trying to run it directly from the command prompt works fine, if I modify test_wiki.bat to read:-

set QS=%1

set REQUEST_METHOD=GET
set SERVER_NAME=test.foo
set SERVER_PORT=80
set REQUEST_URI=%QS%

c:\temp\rakudo\perl6.exe wiki.p6

I get the expected output.

I'm led to believe this is a problem with Rakudo on windows when it is invoked from another program such as Apache or IIS.

I'm not sure how I can figure out what the problem is though, so I've hit a bit of a dead end :( Pretty frustrating as having it work on the command prompt means I'm very close...

I'll see if I can find some windows programmer forums and do some kind of trace to find out what's actually happening. If anyone has any ideas then please let me know.

Lyle

[Lyle]

Yeah! Got there in the end :)


I created a wiki.p6 based on wiki:-
#!c:\temp\rakudo\perl6.exe

BEGIN {
push @*INC, 'c:/htdocs/cgi-bin/lib';
}


use v6;

use CGI;
use November;
use Config;

my $c = Config.new(
markup => 'Text::Markup::Wiki::MediaWiki',
skin => 'CleanAndSoft'
);
my November $wiki = November.new(
config => $c,
);
$wiki.init();
my $cgi = CGI.new;
$cgi.init();
$wiki.handle_request($cgi);


Then in apache conf:-

AddHandler cgi-script .p6
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([^\.]*)$ /cgi-bin/wiki.p6 [PT]

Lyle

[Johan Viklund]

Great Work Lyle!

Could you add this information to the README and send in a patch, OR,
I could give you a commit bit, just give me your github username.

/Johan

--
Johan Viklund