RFC: Which platforms does Parrot support?

[Will Coleda]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Solinski, Mark <mark.solinski at sap.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> And what does it mean with the "dominant compiler" bit? I would
>> suggest we have more windows hackers using Strawberry Perl + MinGW
>> than we have using MSVC. Do we support both? Do we only mark one
>> "supported" when the other may be more "supportable"? Duke raises a
>> great point with regards to BSD variants: We have much more support
>> capability and a better track record of test success on various
>> flavors of BSD than we have on Windows. At what point do we say that
>> "We can support BSD", or "We *will* support it"?
>> ...
>
> I must be one of those *few* Windows (Windows 7) users who does use MSVC (2008) and ActivePerl.  This (MSVC) is what I use because it is my work development environment.  I have been building (or trying to build) Parrot at least once a week for many years.  I always build with the ICU libraries and have scripts that help me effortlessly config, build and test the build.

I (as of recently) have a win7 box with MSVC + Strawberry Perl.

> I do this because I hope, some day, to use Parrot to work build a dynamic O-O language.  Unfortunately, I have never gotten a "round tuit".  If there is any way that I can continue to build and test while helping the Parrot community, I'd be very happy to do so.  What would be involved in setting up my system to report results?

install "TAP::Harness::Archive" and "LWP::UserAgent" from CPAN, then
"make smoke". (if you have an http proxy, set the http_proxy env
variable).



>
> Regards,
> Mark Solinski
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Will "Coke" Coleda