| | 55 | |
| | 56 | ==== How to compile Parrot VM using Strawberry Perl and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ==== |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | Strawberry Perl is community-driven full featured Perl for Windows |
| | 59 | systems. Parrot's `Configure.pl` determins compiler options from Perl |
| | 60 | executable. Unfortunately, Strawberry Perl has been compiled with gcc, |
| | 61 | so `Configure.pl` will try to use gcc's options on VS compiler and |
| | 62 | linker, which will result in nothing - you won't be able to |
| | 63 | compile/test Parrot. In oreder to fix that you have to set up |
| | 64 | compiler's options manually. |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | First of all, open Visual Studio Command Prompt (Windows->Microsoft |
| | 67 | Visual Studio 2010->Visual Studio Tools), then navigate to directory, |
| | 68 | where you have Parrot's sources. |
| | 69 | |
| | 70 | I use the following options: |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | {{{ |
| | 73 | perl Configure.pl --without-icu --cc=cl --link=link --ld=link \ |
| | 74 | --ccflags="-nologo -GF -W4 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE \ |
| | 75 | -DNO_STRICT -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC" \ |
| | 76 | --linkflags="-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug" --verbose |
| | 77 | }}} |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | This should create a Makefile for bare minimum Parrot install. |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | Now you can run `nmake`. Enjoy your parrot.exe. |
