Cardinal is a Ruby compiler for Parrot Virtual Machine.
The parser is fairly complete. The standard library exists, but still needs filling out.
Cardinal’s parser is very very slow. You can precompile to PIR with –target=pir and run the result with Parrot directly to skip the parsing phase. (You may need cardinal.pbc in the same directory for this to work.)
Get a copy of Cardinal(read only):
git clone git://github.com/parrot/cardinal.git
After obtaining the source code, run:
rake cardinal
To run some tests run:
rake test:all rake test:[name]
Submit a report:
rake smolder
You might get all rake tasks with:
rake -T
You can also build cardinal with Parrot:
parrot setup.pir
Testing:
parrot setup.pir test
Submit a report:
parrot setup.pir smoke
Note that some of them will probably fail, as Cardinal is not yet complete
If you want to install Cardinal to your Parrot install directory, run:
parrot setup.pir install
The compiler will be available as parrot-cardinal
Also Cardinal can be nicely works with Winxed 1.2.0+:
winxed setup.winxed build winxed setup.winxed test winxed setup.winxed install
Submit a report:
parrot setup.winxed smoke
For more usages:
winxed setup.winxed help
Follow the documentations to start developing cardinal.
Cardinal is back in active development, under the stewardship of Ted Reed <ted.reed@gmail.com>.
We also have an IRC channel: #cardinal on irc.parrot.org
You are also invited to #parrot on irc.parrot.org