perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
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Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLRISCOS(1)
NAME
README.riscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
DESCRIPTION
This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is
complicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version of
perl available from <http://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
use instead of trying to compile it yourself.
BUILD
You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compiler
<http://gccsdk.riscos.info/> and REXEN
<http://www.cp15.org/programming/>
Firstly, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host
system. Then, in the source to be cross compiled:
o
$ ./Configure
o Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of
the questions are usually sufficient.
Note that, if you wish to run Configure non-interactively (see the
INSTALL document for details), to have it select the correct hint
file, you'll need to provide the argument -Dhintfile=riscos on the
Configure command-line.
o
$ make miniperl
o This should build miniperl and then fail when it tries to run it.
o Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to
replace the cross compiled miniperl.
o
$ make
o This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.
AUTHOR
Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.perl.org/.
perl v5.12.5 2012-11-03 PERLRISCOS(1)