NAME

perl6-build - build rakudo Perl6

SYNOPSIS

$ perl6-build [options] VERSION   PREFIX [-- [configure options]]
$ perl6-build [options] COMMITISH PREFIX [-- [configure options]]

OPTIONS

-h, --help      show this help
    --version   show perl6-build version
-l, --list      list available versions (latest 20 versions)
-L, --list-all  list all available versions
-w, --workdir   set working directory, default: ~/.perl6-build
    --jvm       build perl6 with jvm backend

EXAMPLES

# List available versions
$ perl6-build -l

# Build and install rakudo-star-2018.04 to ~/perl6
$ perl6-build rakudo-star-2018.04 ~/perl6

# Build and install rakudo from git repository (2018.06 tag) to ~/perl6
$ perl6-build 2018.06 ~/perl6

# Build and install rakudo from git repository (HEAD) to ~/perl6-{describe}
# where {describe} will be replaced by `git describe` such as `2018.06-259-g72c8cf68c`
$ perl6-build HEAD ~/perl6-'{describe}'

# Build and install rakudo from git repository (HEAD) with jvm backend
$ perl6-build --jvm 2018.06 ~/2018.06-jvm

# Build and install rakudo from git repository (2018.06 tag) with custom configure options
$ perl6-build 2018.06 ~/2018.06-custom -- --backends moar --with-nqp /path/to/bin/nqp

AUTHOR

Shoichi Kaji <skaji@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2018 Shoichi Kaji <skaji@cpan.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.