Hi, The 0.6.3 parrot packages with libparrot0 and libparrot-devel, plus parrot-perl6 and parrot-languages are now available with the Cygwin distribution. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for interpreted languages. Parrot is a target for the upcoming Perl 6 and a lot of other languages. .include searchpath: /usr/runtime/parrot/include (bogus) /usr/runtime/parrot (bogus) /usr (bogus) /usr/lib/parrot/include /usr/lib/parrot/ . with the extensions: "" .exe .lnk .exe.lnk .past .past.exe .past.lnk .past.exe.lnk .pir .pir.exe .pir.lnk .pir.exe.lnk The .exe and .lnk versions are of course cygwin-magic only. Runtime requirements: libparrot0 libreadline6 ncurses libintl8 libicu38 libgmp3 libgdbm4 Optional requirements: libglut3 pcre xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-bin-dlls libpq5 openssl Build requirements: gcc make perl readline libncurses-devel libgmp-devel libgdbm-devel pcre-devel Optional build requirements: libglut-devel libicu-devel openssl-devel Required CPAN packages: Test::TAP::HTMLMatrix if you want to run the language smoke tests with make languages-smoke. Test::Base for some APL language tests. Canonical homepage: http://www.parrotcode.org/ The Parrot wiki is at http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/ Canonical download: http://www.parrotcode.org/release/devel Updates appear timely every month until v1.0 at the end of this year due to stable funding. 0.6.4 will be uploaded really soon - tomorrow ...