Installing Raku on OpenBSD
How hard could it be to install our favourite language on OpenBSD?Itโs just a matter of seconds, because
raku and rakudo are available as packages!
Therefore, it simply needs to be issued a
pkg_add command:
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% doas pkg_add rakudo
quirks-4.53 signed on 2021-11-05T21:25:13Z
rakudo-2021.02.1:libatomic_ops-7.6.10: ok
rakudo-2021.02.1:libuv-1.40.0: ok
rakudo-2021.02.1:moarvm-2021.02: ok
rakudo-2021.02.1:nqp-2021.02: ok
rakudo-2021.02.1: ok
% which raku
/usr/local/bin/raku
The fact that
raku is available as a package surpiresed me, since it is not available on FreeBSD!
Unluckily, there is no package for
zef, so in order to install zef you have to do some manual steps:
% git clone https://github.com/ugexe/zef.git
% cd zef
% raku -I. bin/zef install .
===> Testing: zef:ver<0.13.4>:auth<github:ugexe>:api<0>
===> Testing [OK] for zef:ver<0.13.4>:auth<github:ugexe>:api<0>
===> Installing: zef:ver<0.13.4>:auth<github:ugexe>:api<0>
1 bin/ script [zef] installed to:
/home/luca/.raku/bin
Installing
zef can require a lot of timeโฆ
Anyway, after
zef is optionally installed, it is time to fire up raku and start doing stuff:
% raku
Welcome to ๐๐๐ค๐ฎ๐๐จโข v2021.02.1.
Implementing the ๐๐๐ค๐ฎโข programming language v6.d.
Built on MoarVM version 2021.02.
To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
> $*VM.say
moar (2021.02)
but thatโs another story!