BSD Ports

lang/nqp 2025.11 OpenBSD

Not Quite Perl

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Pascal Stumpf <[email protected]>
Categories
lang

Description

This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Raku-like environment for virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's designed to be a very small environment (as compared with, say, raku or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine, the JVM, and MoarVM). Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Raku, NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while still providing a Raku object model and regular expression engine for the virtual machine.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDlang/nqp2025.11
NetBSDlang/nqp2026.05nb1

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add nqp

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/lang/nqp && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 2
Run dependencies 1
Required by 1