How can I build Pike on a platform that doesn't have an existing pike binary?

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Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.

http://pike.lysator.liu.se/

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How can I build Pike on a platform that doesn't have an existing pike binary? #43

Closed patbarron closed 10 months ago

patbarron commented 10 months ago

I can't find any information in any of the README files about this, other than a hint that "make source" will prepare the tree to be built without an existing pike - but no information about what to do after running "make source", and in fact that also fails, because it can't find an existing pike binary...

grubba commented 10 months ago

To bootstrap you can do one of the following:

Install the pike binary provided by your distribution.
Download and install a suitable binary dist from pike.lysator.liu.se.
Download, build and install the source dist (Pike-v*.tar.gz) from pike.lysator.liu.se.