3 If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
4 see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
5 specifically designed to be readable as is.
9 perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
13 This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is
14 complicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version of
15 perl available from L<http://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
16 use instead of trying to compile it yourself.
20 You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compiler
21 L<http://gccsdk.riscos.info/> and REXEN
22 L<http://www.cp15.org/programming/>
24 Firstly, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host
26 Then, in the source to be cross compiled:
36 Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of the
37 questions are usually sufficient.
39 Note that, if you wish to run Configure non-interactively (see the INSTALL
40 document for details), to have it select the correct hint file, you'll
41 need to provide the argument -Dhintfile=riscos on the Configure
50 This should build miniperl and then fail when it tries to run it.
54 Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to
55 replace the cross compiled miniperl.
63 This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.
69 Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>