Perl 6 in Perl 5 After building Parrot and Rakudo I set the RAKUDO_DIR environment variable to point to the directory where Rakudo was checked out. I also set the PARROT_DIR environment variable to point to the directory where Parrot was checked out (in the currently standard setup that would be $RAKUDO_DIR/parrot). Then I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to $PARROT_DIR/blib/lib/ This is what I have now in .bashrc export RAKUDO_DIR=$HOME/work/rakudo export PARROT_DIR=$RAKUDO_DIR/parrot export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PARROT_DIR/blib/lib/ Other than that perl Makefile.PL make make test make install