OLPC installation for Perl and [[Parrot?]]

The OLPC Operating System

• Redhat Derivative

Installing Perl

• Run "Terminal Activity"
• You automatically have root acccess via sudo
• # sudo yum install perl

Parrot Requirements

• About 200-300 MB of free space
• OLPC comes with 1GB
• Can use USB
• Can use SD (see installation)

Installing Parrot

• # sudo yum install perl-CPAN
• # sudo yum install subversion
• # sudo yum install gcc
• # sudo yum install make
• # svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot

Installing Parrot

• # perl Makefile.PL
• # gmake
• # gmake test

Languages

• # cd languages/XXX
• # gmake
• # gmake test
• # ../../parrot XXX.pbc demo.xx

Performance

• OLPC suffers for performance
• Hardware is key but...
• Most of the code is python and not compiled
• Maybe Parrot would be a good... Run time and Compiled code
• One run time - many languages - but therefore small footprint

The real world

• http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?mod_parrot
• Apache module to run Parrot Code
• Still need some implementation of HLL, but no C

Parrot Stable

• Plan for Aug 2008

Talk History

• Melbourne Perl Mongers - February 2008