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Package request: Rakudo (a.k.a. Perl 6)
also interested in this, I realize it's not wide appeal or high urgency but it'd be a nice feature for the people learning p6 now that books are coming out for it ^_^
On the contrary, now there are 4 backers for this request, and I guess it would give termux a lot of additional interest if it provides a rakudo star package. Rakudo star on ARM is available for all debian versions, sources are here: https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/ After I got my new device first thing was to install termux and try to compile rakudo, but at least a few libraries are missing. So far I found no easy example for crosscompiling a package for termux, if there should be some basic guide please point me to it.
Sorry if it seemed like I was belittling it in any way -- I really wasn't.
I just meant compared to something with a long, known set of niche applications (like, say, Prolog or Forth) or something popular and everywhere (like Ruby and Python) a Perl 6 package isn't going to have as wide an appeal. (But this isn't to say lacking 'wide appeal' is a signal of poor quality or anything. It's not like the best restaurant on earth is McDonald's, after all.)
As for the urgency, I only meant that I could imagine there are a lot of things that are higher priority overall.
Hopefully that clears things up! ^_^
its currently building in my android 6 x86_64 vm. See if i can get something
its-pointless, that would be really gorgeous. I'm just realizing that my new Onyx Boox Max2 with 13,3" e-ink Display and termux for some things is better suited than my Laptop. Reading a book and switching to console practicing is a breeze.
okay i got it to install on device. Moarvm and libtommath cross compiled from pc. Caveats MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1 was used....
if you want to have a try at this iv put moarvm and libtommath packages on my repo github.com/its-pointless/gcc_termux readme for instructions...
Great. I installed moarvm following your instructions and it's up and running, so far no problems.
I symlinked the moar executable into install/bin of rakudo-star tree and tried to compile rakudo star on device, but it fails at some point with nqp. Perhaps it needs more than just the executable.
If you install moarvm from its-pointless and unpack rakudo-star sources into your $HOME and run perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-nqp it will fail because it expects moar and share/nqp/lib in source tree/install. I don't know if it would help to add --prefix=../usr, I don't want it to install stuff somewhere. So solution is to do
ln -s ../usr/bin/moar in install/bin and
ln -s ../usr/share/nqp/lib in install/share/nqp
On my regular machine I was able to compile nqp and afterwards make rakudo.
On device it's currently compiling ... :)
nqp compiled. The final make failed. Unfortunately I can't transfer the log now, abbreviated something like: src/vm/moar/ops/perl6_ops.c:2: ...com.termux/files/usr/include/moar/moar.h:24:10: uv.h file not found #include uv.h
I didn't need to link moarvm All I did was export MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1 perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar --prefix=$PREFIX --sysroot=$PREFIX make install
the final make that builds perl6 doesn't find stuff in source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/* instead it's looking in /usr/include no quick and dirty hack for this one, tomorrow I try --prefix/ --sysroot, though I don't understand it
Yes. Forget everybody everything I said and follow instruction from it-pointless.
I made clean and issued your commands. The following happens:
- It states moar is new enough and uses that one you provided
- It successfully compiles nqp
- It fails after make because it does not find stuff in source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/, instead it looks in /usr/include. If libuv-dev is installed, it finds that header, but fails with the next atomic_ops.h. It's about source_tree/MoarVM/3rdparty/
It doesn't help to pkg uninstall moarvm (keeping libffi libtommath), that leads to configuration fail, also because of 3rdparty
oh you need atomic-ops-dev package
forgot to upload that.... apt install libatomic-ops-dev sorry about that been doing about 5 different things at once
You're work is much appreciated! Also needed is apt install libffi-dev libtommath-dev
After that make succeeds, with warning linker: ...rakudo/dynext/libperl6.ops.moar.so: unused DT entry: type 0xf arg 0x52a but make install hangs in order to get rid of warnings I did termux-elf-cleaner rakudo/dynext/libperl6_ops_moar.so make install hangs shortly after copying libperl6_ops_moar.so while doing this: perl6-m tools/build/install-core-dist.pl $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6
Hi, i am also interested in trying to install rakudo on my android tablet. i followed the steps mentioned above, sadly not able to get past the instructions given by its-pointless. export MVM_SPESH_DISABLE=1 perl Configure.pl --backends=moar --gen-moar --prefix=$PREFIX --sysroot=$PREFIX make install
Sadly probing pthread_yield support ...................... NO probing support of rdtscp intrinsic ................ NO
Doesnt work and libuv isn't found although i have the 1.9.1 version installed. Am I missing something or is that the current status.
Kind regards, squifi
You need apt install libatomic-ops-dev libffi-dev libtommath-dev libuv-dev
What worked for me was making nqp and rakudo IF the crosscompiled moarvm from its-pointless is installed. It will skip moarvm if moarvm is up to date, so you need either rakudo 2017-12 or rakudo-star 2017-10 BUT make install will fail. So perl6-m will be in the build tree. As-is it's not really helpful, I'm not using it.
I got it to install just when it hangs stop and try make install again.
I tried that before and again, it's not working for me. perl6-m tools/build/install-core-dist.pl $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6 is the latest I see. I have no idea how the installation process works, there are these precomp binaries in $PREFIX/usr/share/perl6
Thx for your replies, i'll continue to try. Got the dependencies, but sadly still no luck atm
Awesome to see I'm not the only person interested!
I've been juggling RL too much lately but I have been reading the thread off and on and will be trying to do it too in a week or so, with the assistance of my far more well-versed-in-these-things spousal unit. ^_^
I want to mention that I tried to install debian on termux using sp4rkie's script https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux but failed initially a few weeks ago. Now it is working with stable and testing and the slight modification suggested here https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux/issues/12#issuecomment-367323561. I installed testing, which required 412M. I added unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list and installed rakudo-2018.1 with apt-get -t unstable install rakudo testing version would be rakudo-2017.6 (of course apt preferences need to be set appropriately to keep unstable rakudo on testing)
I have found a .. bad way of getting this built in termux but still.. for some reason its not killing threads that need to be killed so i did it manually during the install process....
Rakudo Star has been built and installed successfully. Please make sure that the following directories are in PATH: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/perl6/site/bin