=head1 SYNOPSIS
-Perl 5 README file for the EPOC operating system.
+Perl 5 README file for the EPOC Release 5 operating system.
=head1 INTRODUCTION
EPOC is an OS for palmtops and mobile phones. For more informations look at:
http://www.symbian.com/
-This is a port of perl to EPOC. It runs on ER5 machines: Psion 5mx,
-5mx Pro, Psion Revo and on the Ericson M128. I have no report about
-the Psion Netbook or the S7. It runs on ER3 Hardware (Series 5
-classic), too. For more information about this hardware please refer
-to http://www.psion.com.
+This is a port of perl to the epocemx SDK by Eberhard Mattes, which
+itself uses the SDK by symbian. Essentially epocemx it is a POSIX
+look alike environment for the EPOC OS. For more information look at:
+http://epocemx.sourceforge.net/
+
+perl and epocemx runs on Epoc Release 5 machines: Psion 5mx, 5mx Pro,
+Psion Revo, Psion Netbook and on the Ericsson M128. It may run on Epoc
+Release 3 Hardware (Series 5 classic), too. For more information about
+this hardware please refer to http://www.psion.com/
Vendors which like to have support for their devices are free to send
me a sample.
=head1 INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
You can download a ready-to-install version from
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl. You may find other
-versions with some CPAN modules included at this location.
+http://www.oflebbe.de/oflebbe/perl/
+
+You will need at least ~6MB free space in order to install and run perl.
-You will need at least ~4MB free space in order to install and run
-perl.
+Please install the emxusr.sis package from
+http://epocemx.sourceforge.net/ first.
Install perl.sis on the EPOC machine. If you do not know how to do
that, consult your PsiWin documentation.
-Perl itself and its standard library is using 2.5 MB disk space.
+Perl itself and its standard library is using 4 MB disk space.
Unicode support and some other modules are left out. (For details,
please look into epoc/createpkg.pl). If you like to use these modules,
you are free to copy them from a current perl release.
=head1 STARTING PERL ON EPOC
-For ER5 machines, you can get the software Perlstart
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl. It contains file
-recognizers for files with the extension .pl and .pm. With it you can
-start perl with a double click on the camel icon. Be sure to configure
-the perl installation drive first. You can even provide a script with
-a special commandline, if needed.
-
-Alternatively you can get ESHELL from symbian:
-http://developer.epocworld.com/downloads/progs/Eshell.zip
-
-Running ESHELL you can enter: perl -de 0 in order to run the perl
-debugger. If you are leaving perl, you get into the system screen. You
-have to switch back manually to ESHELL. When perl is running, you will
-see a task with the name STDOUT in the task list.
-
-If you have an ER3 machine (i.e. a PSION 5), you may have to supply the
-full path to the perl executable C:\system\programs\perl.exe.
-
-If you need to set the current directory of perl, please use the
-command line switch '-x'. See L<perlrun> for details.
-
-=head1 STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
-
-You can stop a running perl process in the task list by closing the
-application `STDOUT'. You cannot stop a running perl process if it has
-not written anything to stdout or stderr! Be very cautious with I/O
-redirection. You will have to reboot the PDA!
-
-=head1 USING PERL ON EPOC
-
-=head2 I/O Redirection on Epoc
-
-You can redirect the output with the UNIX bourne shell syntax (this is
-built into perl rather then eshell) For instance the following command
-line will run the script test.pl with the output redirected to
-stdout_file, the errors to stderr_file and input from stdin_file.
-
-perl test.pl >stdout_file <stdin_file 2>stderr_file
-
-Alternatively you can use 2>&1 in order to add the standard error
-output to stdout.
-
-=head2 PATH Names on Epoc
-
-ESHELL looks for executables in ?:/System/Programs. The SIS file
-installs perl in this special folder directory. The default drive and
-path are the same as folder the executable resides. The EPOC
-filesystem is case-preserving, not case-sensitive.
-
-The EPOC estdlib uses the ?: syntax for establishing a search order:
-First in C: (RAM), then on D: (CF Card, if present) and last in Z:
-(ROM). For instance ?:\a.txt searches for C:\a.txt, D:\a.txt (and
-Z:\a.txt)
-
-The perl @INC search path is implemented with '?:'. Your perl
-executable can live on a different drive than the perl library or even
-your scripts.
-
-ESHELL paths have to be written with backslashes '\', file arguments
-to perl with slashes '/'. Remember that I/O redirection is done
-internally in perl, so please use slashes for redirects.
-
-perl.exe C:/test.pl >C:/output.txt
+Please use the epocemx shell to start perl. perl integrates with the
+conventions of epocemx.
=head2 Editors on Epoc
A suitable text editor can be downloaded from symbian
- http://developer.epocworld.com/downloads/progs/Editor.zip
+http://www.symbian.com/developer/downloads/files/editor.zip
=head2 Features of Perl on Epoc
=over 4
-=item *
-
-backquoting, pipes etc.
-
-=item *
+=item *
-system() does not inherit resources like: file descriptors,
-environment etc.
+socket IO is only implemented poorly. You can only use sysread and
+syswrite on them. The commands read, write, print, <> do not work for
+sockets. This may change iff epocemx supports sockets.
=item *
-signal, kill, alarm. Do not try to use them. This may be
+kill, alarm and signals. Do not try to use them. This may be
impossible to implement on EPOC.
=item *
EPOC does not handle the notion of current drive and current
directory very well (i.e. not at all, but it tries hard to emulate
-one) See PATH.
+one). See PATH.
=item *
=item *
-You will need the C++ SDK from http://developer.epocworld.com/.
-
-=item *
-
-You will need to set up the cross SDK from
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/sdk
-
-=item *
-
-You may have to adjust config.sh (cc, cppflags) to reflect your epoc
-and SDK location.
+You will need the epocemx SDK from Eberhard Mattes.
=item *
./Configure -S
make
cp miniperl.native miniperl
+ touch miniperl.exe
make
- make ext/Errno/pm_to_blib
- perl link.pl perlmain.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a \
- lib/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.a \
- lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.a lib/auto/IO/IO.a \
- lib/auto/Socket/Socket.a \
- lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.a lib/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.a \
- perl.a `cat ext.libs`
perl createpkg.pl
- wine G:/bin/makesis perl.pkg perl.sis
+ emxsis perl.pkg perl.sis
=back
=head1 SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't
-guarantee I'll be able to answer them.
+guarantee I'll be able to answer them. Since the port to epocemx is
+quite new, please check the web for updates first.
+
+Very special thanks to Eberhard Mattes for epocemx.
=head1 AUTHOR
-Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe@science-computing.de>
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl/
+Olaf Flebbe <olaf@oflebbe.de>
+http://www.oflebbe.de/oflebbe/perl/
=head1 LAST UPDATE
-2001-02-26
+2003-01-18
=cut
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