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<h1><a name="Getting_Started"
>Getting Started</a></h1>
<p>The simplest way to install Parrot is to use a pre-compiled binary for your operating system or distribution.
Packages are available for many systems,
including Debian,
Ubuntu,
Fedora,
Mandriva,
FreeBSD,
Cygwin,
and MacPorts.
The Parrot website lists all known packages.<a href="http://www.parrot.org/download">http://www.parrot.org/download</a> A binary installer for Windows is also available from the Parrot Win32 project on SourceForge.<a href="http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/">http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/</a> If packages aren't available on your system,
you can download a source tarball for the latest supported release from <a href="http://www.parrot.org/release/supported">http://www.parrot.org/release/supported</a>.</p>
<p>You need a C compiler and a make utility to build Parrot from source code -- usually <code>gcc</code> and <code>make</code>,
but Parrot can build with standard compiler toolchains on different operating systems.
Perl 5.8 is also a prerequiste for configuring and building Parrot.</p>
<p><!--
INDEX: compiling
--> If you have these dependencies installed,
build the core virtual machine and compiler toolkit and run the standard test suite with the commands:</p>
<pre> $ perl Configure.pl
$ make
$ make test</pre>
<p><!--
INDEX: installation
--> By default, Parrot installs to directories <em>bin/</em>, <em>lib/</em>, and <em>include/</em> under <em>/usr/local</em>. If you have privileges to write to these directories, install Parrot with:</p>
<pre> $ make install</pre>
<p>To install Parrot in a different location, use the <code>--prefix</code> option to <em><a href="../../../Configure.pl.html">Configure.pl</a></em>:</p>
<pre> $ perl Configure.pl --prefix=/home/me/parrot</pre>
<p>Setting the prefix to <em>/home/me/parrot</em> installs the Parrot executable in <em>/home/me/parrot/bin/parrot</em>.</p>
<p>If you intend to develop a language on Parrot, install the Parrot developer tools as well:</p>
<pre> $ make install-dev</pre>
<p><!--
INDEX: .pir files
--> Once you've installed Parrot, create a test file called <em>news.pir</em>.Files containing PIR code use the <em>.pir</em> extension.</p>
<pre> .sub 'news'
say "Here is the news for Parrots."
.end
</pre>
<p>Now run this file with:</p>
<pre> $ parrot news.pir</pre>
<p>which will print:</p>
<pre> Here is the news for Parrots.</pre>
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