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And what should be done so Rakudo (Star) does not depend on the location in filesystem?
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Some time in 2019 Rakudo gained the ability to be relocatable. So there is now no technical limitation anymore.
As of today no installers that allow to choose the installation location have been provided yet though.
As it currently stands Rakudo depends on the absolute installation path in several places including the binaries. Rakudo Star must install to that exact location (C:\rakudo) because that path is compiled into the binaries.
Making Rakudo independent of its FS location (aka portable) is possible, but simply not yet implemented.
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It takes someone familiar with the Wix windows installer to change its XML config file.
https://github.com/rakudo/star/blob/master/tools/build/star-product.wxs#L6
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This is just a hack and not a real solution, but it's possible to create a junction or, if you don't have C: drive at all, use subst command to still make Rakudo work without really putting it under the hardcoded directory.
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