[Parrot-users] Parrot Questions

Robert Johnson bobjohnson11 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 13:02:29 UTC 2011


Thanks for the info Duke & Daehyub.

I am going to go through the learning material. I will also take a look at
compiling parrot under qemu for ARM.


Robert

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net>wrote:

> Howdy Robert,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Robert Johnson <bobjohnson11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all -
> > I have a couple of questions about parrot.
> > 1. Are smoke test still being conducted?  I ran the smoke test
> successfully
> > but received the following error about the Smolder server:
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Could not upload report to Smolder at http://smolder.parrot.org
> > HTTP CODE: 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable)
> > make: *** [smolder_test] Error 9
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> We would very much like for smoke tests to be possible, but currently our
> Smolder server is down. The best that is possible to do now is send an
> email to
> parrot-dev if you notice failing tests, and give us all the details.
>
> > 2. Can parrot be compiled for ARM Devices?
>
> In theory, it should, but it isn't done often. Our build system doesn't
> allow
> cross-compiling, but you could use qemu to compile parrot for ARM and then
> transfer it to some kind of embedded ARM device.
>
> I attempted add a BitBake recipe for Parrot to OpenEmbedded a while ago,
> but
> didn't have the tuits to finish.
>
> There are several other people interested in getting Parrot working on
> ARM devices, so if you have other ideas, we are all ears.
>
> > 3. Are the following the best place to start learning how to develop a
> > language to target parrot ?
> > http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/parrot/learn/
> > http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user
>
> Yes, these are very good places. Also, this is a great intro to the
> Parrot Compiler Toolkit:
>
> https://github.com/benabik/cish
>
>
> > Any help would be gladly appreciated.
> > Robert
> > (irc: RobertLJ)
>
> You are always welcome to ask any questions in #parrot on
> irc.parrot.org and/or send emails to parrot-dev if you have questions
> about Parrot internals.
>
> Duke
>
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Daehyub Kim to parrot-users, me
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>> 3. Are the following the best place to start learning how to develop a
>> language to target parrot ?
>> http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/parrot/learn/
>> http://parrot.org/dev/docs/user
>
> Yes, these are very good places. Also, this is a great intro to the
> Parrot Compiler Toolkit:
>
> https://github.com/benabik/cish

these are also helpful.

http://trac.parrot.org/parrot
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Parrot_Virtual_Machine
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/parrot/

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