MoarVM (short for Metamodel On A Runtime Virtual Machine) is a runtime built for the 6model object system. It is primarily aimed at running NQP and Rakudo Perl 6, but should be able to serve as a backend for any compilers built using the NQP compiler toolchain.

Building the VM itself takes just:

perl Configure.pl
make

Or nmake on Windows. Currently it is known to build on Windows with MSVC, and with gcc and clang on Linux. We'll work on expanding this with time.

You need to install libuuid on linux(It's required by libapr).

To run some NQP code, or tests, then:

cd nqp-cc
perl Configure.pl
make

Then run some NQP code with:

nqp nqp-moar-cc.nqp -e "say('Hello, MoarVM')"

To run some VM-centric tests, do:

make test

To run what is passing of the NQP test suite so far, do:

make nqptest

Note that at present, you need a working Parrot and NQP in order to run the cross-compiler. In the future, NQP will be self-hosting on MoarVM and that shall not be needed. In order to obtain these, you can replace the initial configure line with:

perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot

MoarVM is currently in development. It is capable of having much of the NQP test suite cross-compiled and run on it, but does not yet host NQP, nor Rakudo Perl 6.

Contributions by pull request are accepted. If you are interested in commit access so you can contribute more easily, drop by the #moarvm channel on freenode.org.