| 1 | NAME |
| 2 | PerlCE - perl for Windows CE |
| 3 | |
| 4 | DESCRIPTION |
| 5 | PerlCE is a simple port of perl to Windows CE. The program |
| 6 | is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also |
| 7 | works on non-hpc devices. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt, |
| 10 | stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your |
| 11 | console has only a liminted number of cols. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the |
| 14 | console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with |
| 15 | status 0 in your program to see any output. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and |
| 18 | /perl-stderr.txt. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | LIMITATIONS |
| 21 | No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ENVIRONMENT |
| 24 | All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as |
| 25 | strings. They are read at process startup. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list). |
| 28 | PATH - Semi-list for executables. |
| 29 | TMP - Tempdir. |
| 30 | UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files, |
| 31 | i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services. |
| 32 | ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console. |
| 33 | HOME - Home directory. |
| 34 | CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor |
| 37 | or via the PerlIDE. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | REGISTRY |
| 40 | To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have |
| 41 | to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat). |
| 42 | cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with |
| 43 | ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices. |
| 44 | You have to create the registry entries by hand using a |
| 45 | registry editor. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | FILES |
| 48 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/dev/null - nul simulation, needed for perl -V |
| 49 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/etc/services - services file |
| 50 | |
| 51 | /perl-stdin.txt |
| 52 | /perl-stdout.txt |
| 53 | /perl-stderr.txt |
| 54 | |
| 55 | PERLFILES |
| 56 | Only a limited set of perl files is provided in the |
| 57 | distribution archiv. You have to copy the original PERL5LIB |
| 58 | files from a perl for win32 installation and put the |
| 59 | distributed files into the right directories. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do |
| 62 | some socket stuff: |
| 63 | |
| 64 | ./auto |
| 65 | ./auto/DynaLoader |
| 66 | ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix |
| 67 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al |
| 68 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al |
| 69 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al |
| 70 | ./auto/IO |
| 71 | ./auto/IO/IO.bs |
| 72 | ./auto/IO/IO.dll |
| 73 | ./auto/Socket |
| 74 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs |
| 75 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll |
| 76 | ./Carp |
| 77 | ./Carp/Heavy.pm |
| 78 | ./Carp.pm |
| 79 | ./Config.pm |
| 80 | ./DynaLoader.pm |
| 81 | ./Exporter |
| 82 | ./Exporter/Heavy.pm |
| 83 | ./Exporter.pm |
| 84 | ./IO |
| 85 | ./IO/File.pm |
| 86 | ./IO/Handle.pm |
| 87 | ./IO/Socket.pm |
| 88 | ./IO.pm |
| 89 | ./SelectSaver.pm |
| 90 | ./Socket.pm |
| 91 | ./strict.pm |
| 92 | ./Symbol.pm |
| 93 | ./warnings |
| 94 | ./warnings/register.pm |
| 95 | ./warnings.pm |
| 96 | ./XSLoader.pm |
| 97 | |
| 98 | XS |
| 99 | The following Win32-Methods are built-in: |
| 100 | |
| 101 | newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file); |
| 102 | newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file); |
| 103 | newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file); |
| 104 | newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file); |
| 105 | newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file); |
| 106 | newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file); |
| 107 | newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file); |
| 108 | newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file); |
| 109 | newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file); |
| 110 | newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file); |
| 111 | newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file); |
| 112 | newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file); |
| 113 | newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file); |
| 114 | |
| 115 | DLLS |
| 116 | In the newest version, my celib.dll is needed. Some XS dlls |
| 117 | might be needed. Currently, Socket and IO are provided. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | BUGS |
| 120 | Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if |
| 121 | they use stdio (normal perl file handles). |
| 122 | |
| 123 | If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your |
| 124 | device, send mail to the address below. Please report |
| 125 | the details of your device (processor, ceversion, |
| 126 | devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded |
| 127 | files. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | I currently have only a Compaq/MIPS HPC, a Jornada/SH3 HPC and |
| 130 | a Jornada/ARM HPC, so I can only test on these devices and |
| 131 | under the Emulators. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | INSTALLATION |
| 134 | This is only a suggestion... |
| 135 | |
| 136 | * Unpack the tar archive on your desktop. |
| 137 | * Create directories /bin, /lib/perl5, /home, /dev and /etc, |
| 138 | possibly on a CF card with the path to the card |
| 139 | prepended (i.e. /memcard/bin etc). |
| 140 | * Copy perl.exe, perl56.dll and celib.dll from your desktop to |
| 141 | /bin. The dlls can also be copied to your /windows |
| 142 | directory, but if you use a CF card, you might want to store |
| 143 | them there. |
| 144 | * Copy the other DLLs to the corresponding auto directory. |
| 145 | * Copy any needed perl module-files to /lib/perl5. |
| 146 | * Create the registry entries. |
| 147 | * If you need tcp service-name resolution, create |
| 148 | the file "services" in /etc and put int the entries you need. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | * Under WINCE200, all dlls must be copied to the windows |
| 151 | directory. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | MISC |
| 154 | If you think a certain XS module should be ported, send |
| 155 | me mail and explain why. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | If you write useful scripts for perlce, please send me |
| 158 | a copy. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | TERMINAL |
| 161 | There are simple terminal control sequences now. See the |
| 162 | readme file that comes with the console program. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | AUTHOR |
| 165 | Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de> 2001 |
| 166 | |