NAME

perl6-build - build rakudo Perl6

SYNOPSIS

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

Options:
 -h, --help      show this help
 -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

Example:
 # 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.