On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:02:16PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > >Also, if you look at the (pir) code for any compiled script, > >it becomes clear that it uses some library called "perl6_ops". > >Does this mean that the file can not be run on a machine > >where you have installed parrot but have not installed perl6? > > That is correct. > Just consider the case where your program calls the eval() function > - it needs the full Perl 6 compiler available. So you need rakudo > installed to run Perl 6 scripts.
Not only the compiler for eval(), but you need the runtime libraries as well for all of the builtin types and functions. The generated .pir files for a HLL program aren't nearly sufficient. By way of analogy, most C programs also require external libraries to be installed and available before they can run. Pm
