Put this in ~/.rakudobrew, and add aliases for convenience.
It's quick and dirty, and may be broken on your system. Please report any breakages.
- On *nix do:
git clone https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew ~/.rakudobrew
export PATH=~/.rakudobrew/bin:$PATH
# or fish shell: set -U fish_user_paths ~/.rakudobrew/bin/ $fish_user_paths
rakudobrew init # Instructions for permanent installation.
- On Windows CMD do:
git clone https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew %USERPROFILE%\rakudobrew
SET PATH=%USERPROFILE%\rakudobrew\bin;%PATH%
rakudobrew init # Instructions for permanent installation.
- On Windows PowerShell do:
git clone https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew $Env:USERPROFILE\rakudobrew
$Env:PATH = "$Env:USERPROFILE\rakudobrew\bin;$Env:PATH"
rakudobrew init # Instructions for permanent installation.
Rakudobrew requires Perl 5 and git to be installed. You can download and install these from
If you want to use the Microsoft compiler cl, you have to make sure the compiler is on
your PATH and you have the environment variables cl requires set.
This happens automatically when using the Native Tools Command Prompt but has to be done
manually when using a normal terminal (or PowerShell). The script vcvars32.bat (which is in the same
folder as cl) can set these variables up automatically for you.
On PowerShell this requires some additional trickery as described on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/q/6140864
It might be necessary to use an Administrative console to work around a problem with permissions that go wrong during the build process.
- Run something like:
$ rakudobrew build moar
to build the latest Rakudo
(in this case, on the MoarVM backend),
which should then be available as perl6.
- You now need a module management tool, you can use zef (a Perl 6 Management Tool), do:
$ rakudobrew build zef
After you have installed new modules and scripts with zef or panda, you can run
$ rakudobrew rehash
to make the scripts available in ~/.rakudobrew/bin and thus your PATH.
$ rakudobrew build moar
$ rakudobrew self-upgrade
To remove rakudobrew and any Perl 6 implementations it's installed on your system,
just remove or rename the ~/.rakudobrew directory.
In case git is not in any standard PATH on your system, you can specify a custom path
to the git binary using a GIT_BINARY environment variable:
$ GIT_BINARY="%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\GitHub\PORTAB~1\bin\git.exe" rakudobrew build all
By default, rakudobrew will use the git protocol when it clones repositories.
To override this setting, use the GIT_PROTOCOL environment variable.
$ GIT_PROTOCOL=ssh rakudobrew list-available
# uses [email protected]:/rakudo/rakudo.git
$ GIT_PROTOCOL=https rakudobrew list-available
# uses https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git
Run rakudobrew