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| 2 | Perl 5 README file for the EPOC operating system. | |
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| 832c1cda | 5 | Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe@gmx.de> |
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6 | http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/trumpet/84/perl5.html |
| 7 | June 27, 1999 | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | Introduction | |
| 10 | ------------ | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | This is a port of Perl version 5, revision 005-57 to EPOC. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | There are many features left out, because of restrictions of the posix | |
| 15 | support in the SDK. | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | The following known problems do exist: | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | 1) very little testing. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | 2) no support for system, backquoting, pipes etc. One cannot exec a | |
| 22 | different process. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | 3) no signals, kill. Do not try to use them. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | 4) select is missing. | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | 5) binmode does not work. (No CR LF to LF translation for text files) | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | 6) no Config.pm | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | 7) no I/O redirection. | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | 8) it may not run from a drive other than C: (I have no CF Card to test) | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | 9) sockets may hardly of any use. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | 10) You need a shell in order to run perl.exe. | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | ||
| 41 | Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling envionment. | |
| 42 | -------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | 0. You will need the C++ SDK from | |
| 45 | http://developer.epocworld.com/. Install it on a separate drive. | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | 1. Unpack the sources in the epoc development drive: The sources | |
| 48 | should be in a directory perl5.005/perl5.005_57 | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | 2. Move all files in the directory perl5.005_57/epoc to perl5.005_57. | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | 3. Check the perl.mmp file: It should have the correct locations for | |
| 53 | project und subproject (see step 1) | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | 4. Change to the EPOC development drive and run | |
| 56 | makmake perl marm | |
| 57 | nmake -f perl.marm | |
| 58 | makesis perl.pkg perl5.005.sis | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | 5. Beam the perl5.005.sis to the Psion5, install and enjoy! | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | ToDo List | |
| 63 | --------- | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | - Allocate an UID from symbian. | |
| 66 | ||
| 67 | - Implement system() and I/O redirection, in order to run the | |
| 68 | tests. | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | - Implement getprotcolbyname() and relatives. | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | - Implement perl as a OPX module. (What do you think?) | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | Support Status | |
| 75 | -------------- | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't | |
| 78 | guarantee I'll be able to answer them; I don't know much about Perl | |
| 79 | itself; | |
| 80 |