Check out Parrot as of r24278 or newer. Configure and build it:
$ perl Configure.pl $ make
Build Perl 6:
$ cd languages/perl6/ $ make
Now build the new pbc_to_c
target. 'snifty:
$ cd ../.. $ make pbc_to_c
With the shiny new pbc_to_c
utility, make the perl6
binary:
$ ./pbc_to_c languages/perl6/perl6.pbc
Now you have a perl6
binary that can run Perl 6 programs:
$ ./perl6 languages/perl6/t/01-sanity/01-tap.t
Caveats: you need to build a shared libparrot with dynamic loading (the default Parrot build, I believe). Also, for now, you can only run the Perl 6 binary from the root directory of a Parrot checkout. Both problems are solveable. (I think the binary will work against an installed Parrot, though I'm not sure we install the supporting PBCs appropriately yet.)