= Building the Portable Padre on Portable Strawberry Perl =

(This is mostly important for the Padre development team and not the end user)

How to include Padre into Portable Strawberry and how to release it

 * Download Portable Strawberry http://strawberryperl.com/ 
 * http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.10.0.3-portable-beta-1.zip
 * unzip it to c:\portable
 * Theoretically we should not need this but both portable is a bit buggy and some
   * modules just call out to system("perl") that requires perl to be in PATH. So
   * set the PATH to include both c:\portable\c\bin and c:\portable\perl\bin

 * Install Padre using
{{{
cpan> install Padre
}}}
 * Install Plugins
 * .padre is currently in C:\ shall we set the PADRE_HOME to a directory in the portable distribution? (if so we can configure the plug-ins and ship them but we have to make sure the configuration files don't include personal history..

 * remove the cpan_sqlite_log.... files from c:\portable\cpan 
 * remove C:\portable\cpan\build and C:\portable\cpan\sources C:\portable\cpan\Bundle
 * remove C:\portable\perl\bin\lex  which the temporary directory of STD.pm (~ 80 Mb)
 * ( the whole portable directory is now 202 Mb including a bare bones parrot and rakudo installation )

 * copy portablepadre.bat and padrewrap.pl from the SVN of padre\tools\portable_strawberry to portable\perl\bin
 * run padre/trunk/tools/include_parrot.pl

 * create a zip file and drag all the content of c:\portable\ in it
   * (TODO isn't there a command line tool in portable to create the zip file ?)
 * The resulting zip file for Padre 0.25 on Portable Strawberry beta 1 was 60 Mb, 
 


== Parrot and Rakudo ==


Download git for windows and install it

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608.exe

Answers I selected:

 * Use Git Bash only
 * Use OpenSSH                 (though not really needed)
 * Use Windows style line endings

  
 
Download command line SVN for windows and install it

http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/

Download CollabNet Subversion Command-Line Client 

{{{
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\bin
}}}

Actual building instructions:

{{{
mkdir c:\tools
cd c:\tools
git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git six

cd six
}}}

Optionally switch to a rakudo release tag. e.g. ThousandOaks
For a list of planned rakudo release, please see:
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/raw/master/docs/release_guide.pod
{{{
git checkout ThousandOaks
}}}

{{{
  2009-11-19   Rakudo #23                      (masak)
  2009-12-17   Rakudo #24                      (chromatic)
  2010-01-21   Rakudo #25                      (smash)
  2010-02-18   Rakudo #26                      (Su-Shee)
}}}

{{{
perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot --gen-parrot-prefix=c:\strawberry\six
mingw32-make
mingw32-make test
mingw32-make install
}}}

Copy credits and licenses
{{{
copy CREDITS c:\strawberry\six\rakudo_credits.txt
copy LICENSE c:\strawberry\six\rakudo_license.txt
copy parrot\LICENSE c:\strawberry\six\parrot_license.txt
copy parrot\CREDITS c:\strawberry\six\parrot_credits.txt
}}}

Remove unneeded files
{{{
del c:\strawberry\six\lib\libparrot.a
del c:\strawberry\six\lib\parrot\1.7.0-devel\parrot_config.o
}}}

size: 34 MB
zipped size: 7 Mb.

In the Padre repo there is a tools\include_parrot.pl that could be refurbished
and used to list the files that are needed by rakudo instead of deleting the others.

See also http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo


Switch back to master
{{{
git checkout master
}}}