On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Stefan Parvu wrote: > 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 ?
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
