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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you |
2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is | |
3 | specially designed to be readable as is. | |
4 | ||
5 | =head1 NAME | |
6 | ||
7 | perlwin32 - Perl under Windows | |
8 | ||
9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS | |
10 | ||
b906aaa5 | 11 | These are instructions for building Perl under Windows 2000 and later. |
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12 | |
13 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
14 | ||
15 | Before you start, you should glance through the README file | |
16 | found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution | |
17 | was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under | |
18 | which this software is being distributed. | |
19 | ||
20 | Also make sure you read L<BUGS AND CAVEATS> below for the | |
21 | known limitations of this port. | |
22 | ||
23 | The INSTALL file in the perl top-level has much information that is | |
24 | only relevant to people building Perl on Unix-like systems. In | |
25 | particular, you can safely ignore any information that talks about | |
26 | "Configure". | |
27 | ||
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28 | You may also want to look at one other option for building a perl that |
29 | will work on Windows: the README.cygwin file, which give a different | |
30 | set of rules to build a perl for Windows. This method will probably | |
31 | enable you to build a more Unix-compatible perl, but you will also | |
32 | need to download and use various other build-time and run-time support | |
33 | software described in that file. | |
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34 | |
35 | This set of instructions is meant to describe a so-called "native" | |
b906aaa5 | 36 | port of Perl to the Windows platform. This includes both 32-bit and |
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37 | 64-bit Windows operating systems. The resulting Perl requires no |
38 | additional software to run (other than what came with your operating | |
39 | system). Currently, this port is capable of using one of the | |
40 | following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture: | |
41 | ||
912c63ed | 42 | Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later |
ceb0c681 | 43 | Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 3.2 or later |
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44 | Gcc by mingw-w64.sf.net gcc version 4.4.3 or later |
45 | ||
46 | Note that the last two of these are actually competing projects both | |
47 | delivering complete gcc toolchain for MS Windows: | |
b906aaa5 | 48 | |
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49 | =over 4 |
50 | ||
51 | =item L<http://mingw.org> | |
52 | ||
53 | Delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows platform. | |
b906aaa5 | 54 | |
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55 | =item L<http://mingw-w64.sf.net> |
56 | ||
57 | Delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows | |
58 | platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64" they are not only 64-bit | |
59 | oriented). They deliver the native gcc compilers and cross-compilers | |
60 | that are also supported by perl's makefile. | |
61 | ||
62 | =back | |
9baed986 | 63 | |
378eeda7 | 64 | The Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given away free. They are |
3e7c2d43 | 65 | available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2013 Express |
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66 | Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK") and are the same |
67 | compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional" or "Visual C++ | |
3e7c2d43 | 68 | 2005-2013 Professional" respectively. |
7241fd28 | 69 | |
fa58a56f | 70 | This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using: |
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71 | |
72 | Microsoft Platform SDK Nov 2001 (64-bit compiler and tools) | |
fa58a56f | 73 | MinGW64 compiler (gcc version 4.4.3 or later) |
9baed986 | 74 | |
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75 | The Windows SDK can be downloaded from L<http://www.microsoft.com/>. |
76 | The MinGW64 compiler is available at L<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64>. | |
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77 | The latter is actually a cross-compiler targeting Win64. There's also a trimmed |
78 | down compiler (no java, or gfortran) suitable for building perl available at: | |
4cef65c2 | 79 | L<http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/> |
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80 | |
81 | NOTE: If you're using a 32-bit compiler to build perl on a 64-bit Windows | |
82 | operating system, then you should set the WIN64 environment variable to "undef". | |
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83 | Also, the trimmed down compiler only passes tests when USE_ITHREADS *= define |
84 | (as opposed to undef) and when the CFG *= Debug line is commented out. | |
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85 | |
86 | This port fully supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that | |
87 | is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be | |
88 | able to build and install most extensions found in the CPAN sites. | |
b906aaa5 | 89 | See L<Usage Hints for Perl on Windows> below for general hints about this. |
9baed986 | 90 | |
b906aaa5 | 91 | =head2 Setting Up Perl on Windows |
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92 | |
93 | =over 4 | |
94 | ||
95 | =item Make | |
96 | ||
97 | You need a "make" program to build the sources. If you are using | |
b906aaa5 | 98 | Visual C++ or the Windows SDK tools, nmake will work. Builds using |
378eeda7 | 99 | the gcc need dmake. |
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100 | |
101 | dmake is a freely available make that has very nice macro features | |
102 | and parallelability. | |
103 | ||
104 | A port of dmake for Windows is available from: | |
105 | ||
42d76a89 | 106 | L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/> |
9baed986 | 107 | |
13e18e90 | 108 | Fetch and install dmake somewhere on your path. |
9baed986 | 109 | |
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110 | =item Command Shell |
111 | ||
8cbe99e5 | 112 | Use the default "cmd" shell that comes with Windows. Some versions of the |
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113 | popular 4DOS/NT shell have incompatibilities that may cause you trouble. |
114 | If the build fails under that shell, try building again with the cmd | |
115 | shell. | |
116 | ||
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117 | Make sure the path to the build directory does not contain spaces. The |
118 | build usually works in this circumstance, but some tests will fail. | |
119 | ||
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120 | =item Microsoft Visual C++ |
121 | ||
122 | The nmake that comes with Visual C++ will suffice for building. | |
123 | You will need to run the VCVARS32.BAT file, usually found somewhere | |
b906aaa5 | 124 | like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin. |
00808b83 | 125 | This will set your build environment. |
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126 | |
127 | You can also use dmake to build using Visual C++; provided, however, | |
128 | you set OSRELEASE to "microsft" (or whatever the directory name | |
129 | under which the Visual C dmake configuration lives) in your environment | |
130 | and edit win32/config.vc to change "make=nmake" into "make=dmake". The | |
131 | latter step is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default | |
132 | make for building extensions using MakeMaker. | |
133 | ||
3e7c2d43 | 134 | =item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2013 Express Edition |
4a3cf07b | 135 | |
3e7c2d43 | 136 | These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2013 Professional contain the same |
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137 | compilers and linkers that ship with the full versions, and also contain |
138 | everything necessary to build Perl, rather than requiring a separate download | |
139 | of the Windows SDK like previous versions did. | |
4a3cf07b | 140 | |
2a46176f | 141 | These packages can be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at |
42d76a89 | 142 | L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact |
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143 | links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on |
144 | changing so often.) | |
4a3cf07b | 145 | |
3e7c2d43 | 146 | Install Visual C++ 2008-2013 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g. |
4a3cf07b | 147 | |
3e7c2d43 | 148 | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat |
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149 | |
150 | (assuming the default installation location was chosen). | |
151 | ||
152 | Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that | |
3e7c2d43 | 153 | file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC120FREE first. |
4a3cf07b | 154 | |
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155 | =item Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition |
156 | ||
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157 | This free version of Visual C++ 2005 Professional contains the same compiler |
158 | and linker that ship with the full version, but doesn't contain everything | |
159 | necessary to build Perl. | |
160 | ||
b906aaa5 | 161 | You will also need to download the "Windows SDK" (the "Core SDK" and "MDAC |
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162 | SDK" components are required) for more header files and libraries. |
163 | ||
164 | These packages can both be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at | |
42d76a89 | 165 | L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact |
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166 | links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on |
167 | changing so often.) | |
168 | ||
b906aaa5 | 169 | Try to obtain the latest version of the Windows SDK. Sometimes these packages |
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170 | contain a particular Windows OS version in their name, but actually work on |
171 | other OS versions too. For example, the "Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK" | |
172 | also runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000. | |
173 | ||
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174 | Install Visual C++ 2005 first, then the Platform SDK. Setup your environment |
175 | as follows (assuming default installation locations were chosen): | |
176 | ||
4246aec1 | 177 | SET PlatformSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK |
1c847d4b | 178 | |
4246aec1 | 179 | SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages;%PlatformSDKDir%\Bin |
1c847d4b | 180 | |
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181 | SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\INCLUDE;%PlatformSDKDir%\include |
182 | ||
183 | SET LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\lib;%PlatformSDKDir%\lib | |
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184 | |
185 | SET LIBPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 | |
186 | ||
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187 | (The PlatformSDKDir might need to be set differently depending on which version |
188 | you are using. Earlier versions installed into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK", | |
189 | while the latest versions install into version-specific locations such as | |
190 | "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2".) | |
191 | ||
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192 | Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that |
193 | file to set | |
194 | ||
195 | CCTYPE = MSVC80FREE | |
196 | ||
197 | and to set CCHOME, CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above. | |
198 | ||
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199 | =item Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 |
200 | ||
201 | This free toolkit contains the same compiler and linker that ship with | |
1c847d4b | 202 | Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional, but doesn't contain everything |
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203 | necessary to build Perl. |
204 | ||
205 | You will also need to download the "Platform SDK" (the "Core SDK" and "MDAC | |
206 | SDK" components are required) for header files, libraries and rc.exe, and | |
207 | ".NET Framework SDK" for more libraries and nmake.exe. Note that the latter | |
208 | (which also includes the free compiler and linker) requires the ".NET | |
209 | Framework Redistributable" to be installed first. This can be downloaded and | |
210 | installed separately, but is included in the "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" anyway. | |
211 | ||
212 | These packages can all be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at | |
42d76a89 | 213 | L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact |
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214 | links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on |
215 | changing so often.) | |
216 | ||
b906aaa5 | 217 | Try to obtain the latest version of the Windows SDK. Sometimes these packages |
1b4f0359 | 218 | contain a particular Windows OS version in their name, but actually work on |
1c847d4b | 219 | other OS versions too. For example, the "Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK" |
1b4f0359 | 220 | also runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000. |
7241fd28 | 221 | |
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222 | Install the Toolkit first, then the Platform SDK, then the .NET Framework SDK. |
223 | Setup your environment as follows (assuming default installation locations | |
224 | were chosen): | |
225 | ||
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226 | SET PlatformSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK |
227 | ||
228 | SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin;%PlatformSDKDir%\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin | |
229 | ||
230 | SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\include;%PlatformSDKDir%\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include | |
1c847d4b | 231 | |
4246aec1 | 232 | SET LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\lib;%PlatformSDKDir%\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\lib |
1c847d4b | 233 | |
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234 | (The PlatformSDKDir might need to be set differently depending on which version |
235 | you are using. Earlier versions installed into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK", | |
236 | while the latest versions install into version-specific locations such as | |
237 | "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2".) | |
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238 | |
239 | Several required files will still be missing: | |
240 | ||
241 | =over 4 | |
242 | ||
243 | =item * | |
244 | ||
245 | cvtres.exe is required by link.exe when using a .res file. It is actually | |
246 | installed by the .NET Framework SDK, but into a location such as the | |
247 | following: | |
248 | ||
249 | C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 | |
250 | ||
4246aec1 | 251 | Copy it from there to %PlatformSDKDir%\Bin |
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252 | |
253 | =item * | |
254 | ||
255 | lib.exe is normally used to build libraries, but link.exe with the /lib | |
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256 | option also works, so change win32/config.vc to use it instead: |
257 | ||
258 | Change the line reading: | |
259 | ||
260 | ar='lib' | |
261 | ||
262 | to: | |
263 | ||
264 | ar='link /lib' | |
265 | ||
266 | It may also be useful to create a batch file called lib.bat in | |
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267 | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin containing: |
268 | ||
269 | @echo off | |
270 | link /lib %* | |
271 | ||
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272 | for the benefit of any naughty C extension modules that you might want to build |
273 | later which explicitly reference "lib" rather than taking their value from | |
274 | $Config{ar}. | |
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275 | |
276 | =item * | |
277 | ||
278 | setargv.obj is required to build perlglob.exe (and perl.exe if the USE_SETARGV | |
279 | option is enabled). The Platform SDK supplies this object file in source form | |
4246aec1 | 280 | in %PlatformSDKDir%\src\crt. Copy setargv.c, cruntime.h and |
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281 | internal.h from there to some temporary location and build setargv.obj using |
282 | ||
283 | cl.exe /c /I. /D_CRTBLD setargv.c | |
284 | ||
4246aec1 | 285 | Then copy setargv.obj to %PlatformSDKDir%\lib |
7241fd28 | 286 | |
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287 | Alternatively, if you don't need perlglob.exe and don't need to enable the |
288 | USE_SETARGV option then you can safely just remove all mention of $(GLOBEXE) | |
289 | from win32/Makefile and setargv.obj won't be required anyway. | |
290 | ||
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291 | =back |
292 | ||
293 | Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that | |
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294 | file to set |
295 | ||
296 | CCTYPE = MSVC70FREE | |
297 | ||
298 | and to set CCHOME, CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above. | |
7241fd28 | 299 | |
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300 | =item Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler |
301 | ||
302 | The nmake that comes with the Platform SDK will suffice for building | |
303 | Perl. Make sure you are building within one of the "Build Environment" | |
304 | shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu. | |
305 | ||
e2736246 | 306 | =item MinGW release 3 with gcc |
9baed986 | 307 | |
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308 | Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x |
309 | and later). It can be downloaded here: | |
9baed986 | 310 | |
42d76a89 | 311 | L<http://www.mingw.org/> |
7c5b6093 | 312 | |
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313 | You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it. |
314 | ||
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315 | =back |
316 | ||
317 | =head2 Building | |
318 | ||
319 | =over 4 | |
320 | ||
321 | =item * | |
322 | ||
323 | Make sure you are in the "win32" subdirectory under the perl toplevel. | |
324 | This directory contains a "Makefile" that will work with | |
b906aaa5 | 325 | versions of nmake that come with Visual C++ or the Windows SDK, and |
9baed986 | 326 | a dmake "makefile.mk" that will work for all supported compilers. The |
00808b83 | 327 | defaults in the dmake makefile are setup to build using MinGW/gcc. |
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328 | |
329 | =item * | |
330 | ||
dbd54a9f | 331 | Edit the makefile.mk (or Makefile, if you're using nmake) and change |
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332 | the values of INST_DRV and INST_TOP. You can also enable various |
333 | build flags. These are explained in the makefiles. | |
334 | ||
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335 | Note that it is generally not a good idea to try to build a perl with |
336 | INST_DRV and INST_TOP set to a path that already exists from a previous | |
337 | build. In particular, this may cause problems with the | |
338 | lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t test, which attempts to build a test program and | |
339 | may end up building against the installed perl's lib/CORE directory rather | |
340 | than the one being tested. | |
341 | ||
dbd54a9f | 342 | You will have to make sure that CCTYPE is set correctly and that |
4cef65c2 | 343 | CCHOME points to wherever you installed your compiler. |
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344 | |
345 | If building with the cross-compiler provided by | |
346 | mingw-w64.sourceforge.net you'll need to uncomment the line that sets | |
347 | GCCCROSS in the makefile.mk. Do this only if it's the cross-compiler - ie | |
348 | only if the bin folder doesn't contain a gcc.exe. (The cross-compiler | |
349 | does not provide a gcc.exe, g++.exe, ar.exe, etc. Instead, all of these | |
350 | executables are prefixed with 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-'.) | |
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351 | |
352 | The default value for CCHOME in the makefiles for Visual C++ | |
353 | may not be correct for some versions. Make sure the default exists | |
354 | and is valid. | |
355 | ||
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356 | You may also need to comment out the C<DELAYLOAD = ...> line in the |
357 | Makefile if you're using VC++ 6.0 without the latest service pack and | |
358 | the linker reports an internal error. | |
dbd54a9f | 359 | |
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360 | If you want build some core extensions statically into perl's dll, specify |
361 | them in the STATIC_EXT macro. | |
362 | ||
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363 | NOTE: The USE_64_BIT_INT build option is not supported with the 32-bit |
364 | Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. | |
365 | ||
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366 | Be sure to read the instructions near the top of the makefiles carefully. |
367 | ||
368 | =item * | |
369 | ||
370 | Type "dmake" (or "nmake" if you are using that make). | |
371 | ||
372 | This should build everything. Specifically, it will create perl.exe, | |
f7cf42bb | 373 | perl519.dll at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's |
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374 | under the lib\auto directory. If the build fails for any reason, make |
375 | sure you have done the previous steps correctly. | |
376 | ||
377 | =back | |
378 | ||
b906aaa5 | 379 | =head2 Testing Perl on Windows |
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380 | |
381 | Type "dmake test" (or "nmake test"). This will run most of the tests from | |
382 | the testsuite (many tests will be skipped). | |
383 | ||
b906aaa5 | 384 | There should be no test failures. |
9baed986 | 385 | |
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386 | If you build with Visual C++ 2013 then two tests currently may fail with |
387 | Daylight Saving Time related problems: F<t/io/fs.t> and | |
388 | F<cpan/HTTP-Tiny/t/110_mirror.t>. | |
389 | ||
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390 | Some test failures may occur if you use a command shell other than the |
391 | native "cmd.exe", or if you are building from a path that contains | |
392 | spaces. So don't do that. | |
393 | ||
394 | If you are running the tests from a emacs shell window, you may see | |
395 | failures in op/stat.t. Run "dmake test-notty" in that case. | |
396 | ||
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397 | If you run the tests on a FAT partition, you may see some failures for |
398 | C<link()> related tests (I<op/write.t>, I<op/stat.t> ...). Testing on | |
399 | NTFS avoids these errors. | |
400 | ||
401 | Furthermore, you should make sure that during C<make test> you do not | |
402 | have any GNU tool packages in your path: some toolkits like Unixutils | |
403 | include some tools (C<type> for instance) which override the Windows | |
404 | ones and makes tests fail. Remove them from your path while testing to | |
405 | avoid these errors. | |
406 | ||
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407 | Please report any other failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>. |
408 | ||
b906aaa5 | 409 | =head2 Installation of Perl on Windows |
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410 | |
411 | Type "dmake install" (or "nmake install"). This will put the newly | |
412 | built perl and the libraries under whatever C<INST_TOP> points to in the | |
413 | Makefile. It will also install the pod documentation under | |
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414 | C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\lib\pod> and HTML versions of the same under |
415 | C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\lib\pod\html>. | |
9baed986 | 416 | |
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417 | To use the Perl you just installed you will need to add a new entry to |
418 | your PATH environment variable: C<$INST_TOP\bin>, e.g. | |
9baed986 | 419 | |
00808b83 | 420 | set PATH=c:\perl\bin;%PATH% |
9baed986 | 421 | |
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422 | If you opted to uncomment C<INST_VER> and C<INST_ARCH> in the makefile |
423 | then the installation structure is a little more complicated and you will | |
424 | need to add two new PATH components instead: C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\bin> and | |
425 | C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\bin\$ARCHNAME>, e.g. | |
426 | ||
427 | set PATH=c:\perl\5.6.0\bin;c:\perl\5.6.0\bin\MSWin32-x86;%PATH% | |
9baed986 | 428 | |
b906aaa5 | 429 | =head2 Usage Hints for Perl on Windows |
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430 | |
431 | =over 4 | |
432 | ||
433 | =item Environment Variables | |
434 | ||
435 | The installation paths that you set during the build get compiled | |
436 | into perl, so you don't have to do anything additional to start | |
437 | using that perl (except add its location to your PATH variable). | |
438 | ||
439 | If you put extensions in unusual places, you can set PERL5LIB | |
440 | to a list of paths separated by semicolons where you want perl | |
441 | to look for libraries. Look for descriptions of other environment | |
442 | variables you can set in L<perlrun>. | |
443 | ||
444 | You can also control the shell that perl uses to run system() and | |
445 | backtick commands via PERL5SHELL. See L<perlrun>. | |
446 | ||
447 | Perl does not depend on the registry, but it can look up certain default | |
448 | values if you choose to put them there. Perl attempts to read entries from | |
449 | C<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Perl> and C<HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Perl>. | |
450 | Entries in the former override entries in the latter. One or more of the | |
451 | following entries (of type REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ) may be set: | |
452 | ||
453 | lib-$] version-specific standard library path to add to @INC | |
454 | lib standard library path to add to @INC | |
455 | sitelib-$] version-specific site library path to add to @INC | |
456 | sitelib site library path to add to @INC | |
457 | vendorlib-$] version-specific vendor library path to add to @INC | |
458 | vendorlib vendor library path to add to @INC | |
459 | PERL* fallback for all %ENV lookups that begin with "PERL" | |
460 | ||
461 | Note the C<$]> in the above is not literal. Substitute whatever version | |
462 | of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.6.0>. Paths must be | |
b906aaa5 | 463 | separated with semicolons, as usual on Windows. |
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464 | |
465 | =item File Globbing | |
466 | ||
467 | By default, perl handles file globbing using the File::Glob extension, | |
468 | which provides portable globbing. | |
469 | ||
470 | If you want perl to use globbing that emulates the quirks of DOS | |
471 | filename conventions, you might want to consider using File::DosGlob | |
472 | to override the internal glob() implementation. See L<File::DosGlob> for | |
473 | details. | |
474 | ||
475 | =item Using perl from the command line | |
476 | ||
477 | If you are accustomed to using perl from various command-line | |
478 | shells found in UNIX environments, you will be less than pleased | |
479 | with what Windows offers by way of a command shell. | |
480 | ||
481 | The crucial thing to understand about the Windows environment is that | |
482 | the command line you type in is processed twice before Perl sees it. | |
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483 | First, your command shell (usually CMD.EXE) preprocesses the command |
484 | line, to handle redirection, environment variable expansion, and | |
485 | location of the executable to run. Then, the perl executable splits | |
486 | the remaining command line into individual arguments, using the | |
487 | C runtime library upon which Perl was built. | |
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488 | |
489 | It is particularly important to note that neither the shell nor the C | |
490 | runtime do any wildcard expansions of command-line arguments (so | |
491 | wildcards need not be quoted). Also, the quoting behaviours of the | |
492 | shell and the C runtime are rudimentary at best (and may, if you are | |
493 | using a non-standard shell, be inconsistent). The only (useful) quote | |
494 | character is the double quote ("). It can be used to protect spaces | |
495 | and other special characters in arguments. | |
496 | ||
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497 | The Windows documentation describes the shell parsing rules here: |
498 | L<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true> | |
499 | and the C runtime parsing rules here: | |
500 | L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17w5ykft%28v=VS.100%29.aspx>. | |
501 | ||
502 | Here are some further observations based on experiments: The C runtime | |
503 | breaks arguments at spaces and passes them to programs in argc/argv. | |
504 | Double quotes can be used to prevent arguments with spaces in them from | |
505 | being split up. You can put a double quote in an argument by escaping | |
506 | it with a backslash and enclosing the whole argument within double quotes. | |
507 | The backslash and the pair of double quotes surrounding the argument will | |
508 | be stripped by the C runtime. | |
9baed986 | 509 | |
00808b83 | 510 | The file redirection characters "E<lt>", "E<gt>", and "|" can be quoted by |
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511 | double quotes (although there are suggestions that this may not always |
512 | be true). Single quotes are not treated as quotes by the shell or | |
513 | the C runtime, they don't get stripped by the shell (just to make | |
514 | this type of quoting completely useless). The caret "^" has also | |
515 | been observed to behave as a quoting character, but this appears | |
516 | to be a shell feature, and the caret is not stripped from the command | |
517 | line, so Perl still sees it (and the C runtime phase does not treat | |
518 | the caret as a quote character). | |
519 | ||
520 | Here are some examples of usage of the "cmd" shell: | |
521 | ||
522 | This prints two doublequotes: | |
523 | ||
524 | perl -e "print '\"\"' " | |
525 | ||
526 | This does the same: | |
527 | ||
528 | perl -e "print \"\\\"\\\"\" " | |
529 | ||
530 | This prints "bar" and writes "foo" to the file "blurch": | |
531 | ||
532 | perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" > blurch | |
533 | ||
534 | This prints "foo" ("bar" disappears into nowhereland): | |
535 | ||
536 | perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> nul | |
537 | ||
538 | This prints "bar" and writes "foo" into the file "blurch": | |
539 | ||
540 | perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 1> blurch | |
541 | ||
542 | This pipes "foo" to the "less" pager and prints "bar" on the console: | |
543 | ||
544 | perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" | less | |
545 | ||
546 | This pipes "foo\nbar\n" to the less pager: | |
547 | ||
548 | perl -le "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2>&1 | less | |
549 | ||
550 | This pipes "foo" to the pager and writes "bar" in the file "blurch": | |
551 | ||
552 | perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> blurch | less | |
553 | ||
554 | ||
555 | Discovering the usefulness of the "command.com" shell on Windows 9x | |
556 | is left as an exercise to the reader :) | |
557 | ||
558 | One particularly pernicious problem with the 4NT command shell for | |
8cbe99e5 | 559 | Windows is that it (nearly) always treats a % character as indicating |
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560 | that environment variable expansion is needed. Under this shell, it is |
561 | therefore important to always double any % characters which you want | |
562 | Perl to see (for example, for hash variables), even when they are | |
563 | quoted. | |
564 | ||
565 | =item Building Extensions | |
566 | ||
567 | The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) offers a wealth | |
568 | of extensions, some of which require a C compiler to build. | |
42d76a89 | 569 | Look in L<http://www.cpan.org/> for more information on CPAN. |
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570 | |
571 | Note that not all of the extensions available from CPAN may work | |
b906aaa5 | 572 | in the Windows environment; you should check the information at |
42d76a89 | 573 | L<http://testers.cpan.org/> before investing too much effort into |
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574 | porting modules that don't readily build. |
575 | ||
576 | Most extensions (whether they require a C compiler or not) can | |
577 | be built, tested and installed with the standard mantra: | |
578 | ||
579 | perl Makefile.PL | |
580 | $MAKE | |
581 | $MAKE test | |
582 | $MAKE install | |
583 | ||
584 | where $MAKE is whatever 'make' program you have configured perl to | |
585 | use. Use "perl -V:make" to find out what this is. Some extensions | |
586 | may not provide a testsuite (so "$MAKE test" may not do anything or | |
587 | fail), but most serious ones do. | |
588 | ||
589 | It is important that you use a supported 'make' program, and | |
590 | ensure Config.pm knows about it. If you don't have nmake, you can | |
591 | either get dmake from the location mentioned earlier or get an | |
592 | old version of nmake reportedly available from: | |
593 | ||
42d76a89 | 594 | L<http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/nmake15.exe> |
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595 | |
596 | Another option is to use the make written in Perl, available from | |
597 | CPAN. | |
598 | ||
42d76a89 | 599 | L<http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Make/> |
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600 | |
601 | You may also use dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it. | |
602 | ||
603 | Note that MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different syntax | |
604 | depending on what 'make' it thinks you are using. Therefore, it is | |
605 | important that one of the following values appears in Config.pm: | |
606 | ||
607 | make='nmake' # MakeMaker emits nmake syntax | |
608 | make='dmake' # MakeMaker emits dmake syntax | |
609 | any other value # MakeMaker emits generic make syntax | |
610 | (e.g GNU make, or Perl make) | |
611 | ||
612 | If the value doesn't match the 'make' program you want to use, | |
613 | edit Config.pm to fix it. | |
614 | ||
615 | If a module implements XSUBs, you will need one of the supported | |
616 | C compilers. You must make sure you have set up the environment for | |
617 | the compiler for command-line compilation. | |
618 | ||
619 | If a module does not build for some reason, look carefully for | |
620 | why it failed, and report problems to the module author. If | |
621 | it looks like the extension building support is at fault, report | |
622 | that with full details of how the build failed using the perlbug | |
623 | utility. | |
624 | ||
625 | =item Command-line Wildcard Expansion | |
626 | ||
627 | The default command shells on DOS descendant operating systems (such | |
628 | as they are) usually do not expand wildcard arguments supplied to | |
629 | programs. They consider it the application's job to handle that. | |
630 | This is commonly achieved by linking the application (in our case, | |
631 | perl) with startup code that the C runtime libraries usually provide. | |
632 | However, doing that results in incompatible perl versions (since the | |
633 | behavior of the argv expansion code differs depending on the | |
634 | compiler, and it is even buggy on some compilers). Besides, it may | |
635 | be a source of frustration if you use such a perl binary with an | |
636 | alternate shell that *does* expand wildcards. | |
637 | ||
638 | Instead, the following solution works rather well. The nice things | |
dbd54a9f | 639 | about it are 1) you can start using it right away; 2) it is more |
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640 | powerful, because it will do the right thing with a pattern like |
641 | */*/*.c; 3) you can decide whether you do/don't want to use it; and | |
dbd54a9f | 642 | 4) you can extend the method to add any customizations (or even |
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643 | entirely different kinds of wildcard expansion). |
644 | ||
645 | C:\> copy con c:\perl\lib\Wild.pm | |
646 | # Wild.pm - emulate shell @ARGV expansion on shells that don't | |
647 | use File::DosGlob; | |
648 | @ARGV = map { | |
649 | my @g = File::DosGlob::glob($_) if /[*?]/; | |
650 | @g ? @g : $_; | |
651 | } @ARGV; | |
652 | 1; | |
653 | ^Z | |
654 | C:\> set PERL5OPT=-MWild | |
655 | C:\> perl -le "for (@ARGV) { print }" */*/perl*.c | |
656 | p4view/perl/perl.c | |
657 | p4view/perl/perlio.c | |
658 | p4view/perl/perly.c | |
659 | perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c | |
660 | perl5.005/win32/perllib.c | |
661 | perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c | |
662 | perl5.005/win32/perllib.c | |
663 | perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c | |
664 | perl5.005/win32/perllib.c | |
665 | ||
666 | Note there are two distinct steps there: 1) You'll have to create | |
667 | Wild.pm and put it in your perl lib directory. 2) You'll need to | |
668 | set the PERL5OPT environment variable. If you want argv expansion | |
669 | to be the default, just set PERL5OPT in your default startup | |
670 | environment. | |
671 | ||
672 | If you are using the Visual C compiler, you can get the C runtime's | |
673 | command line wildcard expansion built into perl binary. The resulting | |
674 | binary will always expand unquoted command lines, which may not be | |
675 | what you want if you use a shell that does that for you. The expansion | |
676 | done is also somewhat less powerful than the approach suggested above. | |
677 | ||
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678 | =item Notes on 64-bit Windows |
679 | ||
680 | Windows .NET Server supports the LLP64 data model on the Intel Itanium | |
681 | architecture. | |
682 | ||
683 | The LLP64 data model is different from the LP64 data model that is the | |
684 | norm on 64-bit Unix platforms. In the former, C<int> and C<long> are | |
685 | both 32-bit data types, while pointers are 64 bits wide. In addition, | |
686 | there is a separate 64-bit wide integral type, C<__int64>. In contrast, | |
687 | the LP64 data model that is pervasive on Unix platforms provides C<int> | |
688 | as the 32-bit type, while both the C<long> type and pointers are of | |
689 | 64-bit precision. Note that both models provide for 64-bits of | |
690 | addressability. | |
691 | ||
692 | 64-bit Windows running on Itanium is capable of running 32-bit x86 | |
693 | binaries transparently. This means that you could use a 32-bit build | |
694 | of Perl on a 64-bit system. Given this, why would one want to build | |
695 | a 64-bit build of Perl? Here are some reasons why you would bother: | |
696 | ||
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697 | =over |
698 | ||
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699 | =item * |
700 | ||
701 | A 64-bit native application will run much more efficiently on | |
702 | Itanium hardware. | |
703 | ||
704 | =item * | |
705 | ||
706 | There is no 2GB limit on process size. | |
707 | ||
708 | =item * | |
709 | ||
710 | Perl automatically provides large file support when built under | |
711 | 64-bit Windows. | |
712 | ||
713 | =item * | |
714 | ||
715 | Embedding Perl inside a 64-bit application. | |
716 | ||
717 | =back | |
718 | ||
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719 | =back |
720 | ||
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721 | =head2 Running Perl Scripts |
722 | ||
723 | Perl scripts on UNIX use the "#!" (a.k.a "shebang") line to | |
724 | indicate to the OS that it should execute the file using perl. | |
b906aaa5 | 725 | Windows has no comparable means to indicate arbitrary files are |
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726 | executables. |
727 | ||
728 | Instead, all available methods to execute plain text files on | |
b906aaa5 | 729 | Windows rely on the file "extension". There are three methods |
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730 | to use this to execute perl scripts: |
731 | ||
732 | =over 8 | |
733 | ||
734 | =item 1 | |
735 | ||
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736 | There is a facility called "file extension associations". This can be |
737 | manipulated via the two commands "assoc" and "ftype" that come | |
738 | standard with Windows. Type "ftype /?" for a complete example of how | |
739 | to set this up for perl scripts (Say what? You thought Windows | |
740 | wasn't perl-ready? :). | |
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741 | |
742 | =item 2 | |
743 | ||
744 | Since file associations don't work everywhere, and there are | |
745 | reportedly bugs with file associations where it does work, the | |
746 | old method of wrapping the perl script to make it look like a | |
747 | regular batch file to the OS, may be used. The install process | |
748 | makes available the "pl2bat.bat" script which can be used to wrap | |
749 | perl scripts into batch files. For example: | |
750 | ||
751 | pl2bat foo.pl | |
752 | ||
753 | will create the file "FOO.BAT". Note "pl2bat" strips any | |
754 | .pl suffix and adds a .bat suffix to the generated file. | |
755 | ||
756 | If you use the 4DOS/NT or similar command shell, note that | |
757 | "pl2bat" uses the "%*" variable in the generated batch file to | |
758 | refer to all the command line arguments, so you may need to make | |
759 | sure that construct works in batch files. As of this writing, | |
760 | 4DOS/NT users will need a "ParameterChar = *" statement in their | |
761 | 4NT.INI file or will need to execute "setdos /p*" in the 4DOS/NT | |
762 | startup file to enable this to work. | |
763 | ||
764 | =item 3 | |
765 | ||
766 | Using "pl2bat" has a few problems: the file name gets changed, | |
767 | so scripts that rely on C<$0> to find what they must do may not | |
768 | run properly; running "pl2bat" replicates the contents of the | |
769 | original script, and so this process can be maintenance intensive | |
770 | if the originals get updated often. A different approach that | |
771 | avoids both problems is possible. | |
772 | ||
773 | A script called "runperl.bat" is available that can be copied | |
774 | to any filename (along with the .bat suffix). For example, | |
775 | if you call it "foo.bat", it will run the file "foo" when it is | |
b906aaa5 | 776 | executed. Since you can run batch files on Windows platforms simply |
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777 | by typing the name (without the extension), this effectively |
778 | runs the file "foo", when you type either "foo" or "foo.bat". | |
779 | With this method, "foo.bat" can even be in a different location | |
780 | than the file "foo", as long as "foo" is available somewhere on | |
781 | the PATH. If your scripts are on a filesystem that allows symbolic | |
782 | links, you can even avoid copying "runperl.bat". | |
783 | ||
784 | Here's a diversion: copy "runperl.bat" to "runperl", and type | |
785 | "runperl". Explain the observed behavior, or lack thereof. :) | |
786 | Hint: .gnidnats llits er'uoy fi ,"lrepnur" eteled :tniH | |
787 | ||
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788 | =back |
789 | ||
790 | =head2 Miscellaneous Things | |
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791 | |
792 | A full set of HTML documentation is installed, so you should be | |
793 | able to use it if you have a web browser installed on your | |
794 | system. | |
795 | ||
796 | C<perldoc> is also a useful tool for browsing information contained | |
797 | in the documentation, especially in conjunction with a pager | |
b906aaa5 | 798 | like C<less> (recent versions of which have Windows support). You may |
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799 | have to set the PAGER environment variable to use a specific pager. |
800 | "perldoc -f foo" will print information about the perl operator | |
801 | "foo". | |
802 | ||
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803 | One common mistake when using this port with a GUI library like C<Tk> |
804 | is assuming that Perl's normal behavior of opening a command-line | |
805 | window will go away. This isn't the case. If you want to start a copy | |
806 | of C<perl> without opening a command-line window, use the C<wperl> | |
807 | executable built during the installation process. Usage is exactly | |
b906aaa5 | 808 | the same as normal C<perl> on Windows, except that options like C<-h> |
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809 | don't work (since they need a command-line window to print to). |
810 | ||
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811 | If you find bugs in perl, you can run C<perlbug> to create a |
812 | bug report (you may have to send it manually if C<perlbug> cannot | |
813 | find a mailer on your system). | |
814 | ||
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815 | =head1 BUGS AND CAVEATS |
816 | ||
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817 | Norton AntiVirus interferes with the build process, particularly if |
818 | set to "AutoProtect, All Files, when Opened". Unlike large applications | |
819 | the perl build process opens and modifies a lot of files. Having the | |
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820 | the AntiVirus scan each and every one slows build the process significantly. |
821 | Worse, with PERLIO=stdio the build process fails with peculiar messages | |
dbd54a9f | 822 | as the virus checker interacts badly with miniperl.exe writing configure |
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823 | files (it seems to either catch file part written and treat it as suspicious, |
824 | or virus checker may have it "locked" in a way which inhibits miniperl | |
dbd54a9f | 825 | updating it). The build does complete with |
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826 | |
827 | set PERLIO=perlio | |
828 | ||
829 | but that may be just luck. Other AntiVirus software may have similar issues. | |
830 | ||
831 | Some of the built-in functions do not act exactly as documented in | |
832 | L<perlfunc>, and a few are not implemented at all. To avoid | |
833 | surprises, particularly if you have had prior exposure to Perl | |
834 | in other operating environments or if you intend to write code | |
00808b83 | 835 | that will be portable to other environments, see L<perlport> |
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836 | for a reasonably definitive list of these differences. |
837 | ||
838 | Not all extensions available from CPAN may build or work properly | |
b906aaa5 | 839 | in the Windows environment. See L</"Building Extensions">. |
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840 | |
841 | Most C<socket()> related calls are supported, but they may not | |
842 | behave as on Unix platforms. See L<perlport> for the full list. | |
843 | ||
844 | Signal handling may not behave as on Unix platforms (where it | |
845 | doesn't exactly "behave", either :). For instance, calling C<die()> | |
846 | or C<exit()> from signal handlers will cause an exception, since most | |
b906aaa5 | 847 | implementations of C<signal()> on Windows are severely crippled. |
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848 | Thus, signals may work only for simple things like setting a flag |
849 | variable in the handler. Using signals under this port should | |
850 | currently be considered unsupported. | |
851 | ||
dbd54a9f | 852 | Please send detailed descriptions of any problems and solutions that |
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853 | you may find to E<lt>F<perlbug@perl.org>E<gt>, along with the output |
854 | produced by C<perl -V>. | |
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856 | =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
857 | ||
858 | The use of a camel with the topic of Perl is a trademark | |
859 | of O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Used with permission. | |
860 | ||
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861 | =head1 AUTHORS |
862 | ||
863 | =over 4 | |
864 | ||
865 | =item Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt> | |
866 | ||
867 | =item Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt> | |
868 | ||
869 | =item Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt> | |
870 | ||
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871 | =item Jan Dubois E<lt>jand@activestate.comE<gt> |
872 | ||
2a46176f | 873 | =item Steve Hay E<lt>steve.m.hay@googlemail.comE<gt> |
2bfd3252 | 874 | |
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875 | =back |
876 | ||
2bfd3252 | 877 | This document is maintained by Jan Dubois. |
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878 | |
879 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
880 | ||
881 | L<perl> | |
882 | ||
883 | =head1 HISTORY | |
884 | ||
885 | This port was originally contributed by Gary Ng around 5.003_24, | |
886 | and borrowed from the Hip Communications port that was available | |
887 | at the time. Various people have made numerous and sundry hacks | |
888 | since then. | |
889 | ||
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890 | GCC/mingw32 support was added in 5.005 (Nick Ing-Simmons). |
891 | ||
892 | Support for PERL_OBJECT was added in 5.005 (ActiveState Tool Corp). | |
893 | ||
894 | Support for fork() emulation was added in 5.6 (ActiveState Tool Corp). | |
895 | ||
896 | Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl). | |
897 | ||
898 | Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp). | |
899 | ||
3e7c2d43 | 900 | Last updated: 22 October 2013 |
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901 | |
902 | =cut |