=head1 NAME
-README.symbian - Perl version 5 on Symbian OS
+perlsymbian - Perl version 5 on Symbian OS
=head1 DESCRIPTION
system that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl)
is compiled and/or runs.
-B<NOTE: this port (as of 0.2.0) does not compile into a Symbian
+B<NOTE: this port (as of 0.4.1) does not compile into a Symbian
OS GUI application, but instead it results in a Symbian DLL.>
The DLL includes a C++ class called CPerlBase, which one can then
(derive from and) use to embed Perl into applications, see F<symbian/README>.
The base port of Perl to Symbian only implements the basic POSIX-like
-functionality; it does not implement any further Symbian or Series 60
-or Series 80 bindings for Perl.
+functionality; it does not implement any further Symbian or Series 60,
+Series 80, or UIQ bindings for Perl.
It is also possible to generate Symbian executables for "miniperl"
and "perl", but since there is no standard command line interface
=head2 Compiling Perl on Symbian
-(0) You need to have the Symbian SDK installed.
+(0) You need to have the appropriate Symbian SDK installed.
- These instructions have been tested under various Nokia Series 60
- Symbian SDKs (1.2 to 2.6, 2.8 should also work, 1.2 compiles but
- does not work), and Series 80 2.0. You can get the SDKs from
- Forum Nokia (http://www.forum.nokia.com/).
+These instructions have been tested under various Nokia Series 60
+Symbian SDKs (1.2 to 2.6, 2.8 should also work, 1.2 compiles but
+does not work), Series 80 2.0, and Nokia 7710 (Series 90) SDK.
+You can get the SDKs from Forum Nokia (L<http://www.forum.nokia.com/>).
+A very rough port ("it compiles") to UIQ 2.1 has also been made.
- A prerequisite for any of the SDKs is to install ActivePerl
- from ActiveState, http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
+A prerequisite for any of the SDKs is to install ActivePerl
+from ActiveState, L<http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/>
- Having the SDK installed also means that you need to have either
- the Metrowerks CodeWarrior installed (2.8 and 3.0 were used in testing)
- or the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 installed (SP3 minimum, SP5 recommended).
+Having the SDK installed also means that you need to have either
+the Metrowerks CodeWarrior installed (2.8 and 3.0 were used in testing)
+or the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 installed (SP3 minimum, SP5 recommended).
- Note that for example the Serie s60 2.0 VC SDK installation talks
- about ActivePerl build 518, which does no more (as of mid-2005) exist
- at the ActiveState website. The ActivePerl 5.8.4 build 810 was
- used successfully for compiling Perl on Symbian. The 5.6.x ActivePerls
- do not work.
+Note that for example the Series 60 2.0 VC SDK installation talks
+about ActivePerl build 518, which does no more (as of mid-2005) exist
+at the ActiveState website. The ActivePerl 5.8.4 build 810 was
+used successfully for compiling Perl on Symbian. The 5.6.x ActivePerls
+do not work.
- Other SDKs or compilers like Visual.NET, command-line-only
- Visual.NET, Borland, GnuPoc, or sdk2unix have not been tried.
+Other SDKs or compilers like Visual.NET, command-line-only
+Visual.NET, Borland, GnuPoc, or sdk2unix have not been tried.
- These instructions almost certainly won't work with older Symbian
- releases or other SDKs. Patches to get this port running in other
- releases, SDKs, compilers, platforms, or devices are naturally welcome.
+These instructions almost certainly won't work with older Symbian
+releases or other SDKs. Patches to get this port running in other
+releases, SDKs, compilers, platforms, or devices are naturally welcome.
(1) Get a Perl source code distribution (for example the file
- perl-5.9.2.tar.gz is fine) from http://www.cpan.org/src/
- and unpack it in your the C:/Symbian directory of your Windows
- system.
+perl-5.9.2.tar.gz is fine) from L<http://www.cpan.org/src/>
+and unpack it in your the C:/Symbian directory of your Windows
+system.
(2) Change to the perl source directory.
- cd c:\Symbian\perl-5.x.x
+ cd c:\Symbian\perl-5.x.x
(3) Run the following script using the perl coming with the SDK
- perl symbian\config.pl
+ perl symbian\config.pl
- You must use the cmd.exe, the Cygwin shell will not work
- (the PATH must include the SDK tools, including a Perl,
- which should be the case under cmd.exe)
+You must use the cmd.exe, the Cygwin shell will not work.
+The PATH must include the SDK tools, including a Perl,
+which should be the case under cmd.exe. If you do not
+have that, see the end of symbian\sdk.pl for notes of
+how your environment should be set up for Symbian compiles.
(4) Build the project, either by
- make all
+ make all
- in cmd.exe or by using either the Metrowerks CodeWarrior
- or the Visual C++ 6.0.
+in cmd.exe or by using either the Metrowerks CodeWarrior
+or the Visual C++ 6.0, or the Visual Studio 8 (the Visual C++
+2005 Express Edition works fine).
- If you use the VC IDE, you will have to run F<symbian\config.pl>
- first using the cmd.exe, and then run 'make win.mf vc6.mf' to generate
- the VC6 makefiles and workspaces. "make vc6" will compile for the VC6,
- and "make cw" for the CodeWarrior.
+If you use the VC IDE, you will have to run F<symbian\config.pl>
+first using the cmd.exe, and then run 'make win.mf vc6.mf' to generate
+the VC6 makefiles and workspaces. "make vc6" will compile for the VC6,
+and "make cw" for the CodeWarrior.
- The following Series 60 and Series 80 SDK and compiler configurations
- and Nokia phones that were tested at some point in time
- (+ = compiled and PerlApp run, - = not),
- both for Perl 5.8.x and 5.9.x:
+The following SDK and compiler configurations and Nokia phones were
+tested at some point in time (+ = compiled and PerlApp run, - = not),
+both for Perl 5.8.x and 5.9.x:
- SDK | VC | CW |
- --------+----+----+---
- S60 1.2 | + | + | 3650 (*)
- S60 2.0 | + | + | 6600
- S60 2.1 | - | + | 6670
- S60 2.6 | + | + | 6630
+ SDK | VC | CW |
+ --------+----+----+---
+ S60 1.2 | + | + | 3650 (*)
+ S60 2.0 | + | + | 6600
+ S60 2.1 | - | + | 6670
+ S60 2.6 | + | + | 6630
+ S60 2.8 | + | + | (not tested in a device)
+ S80 2.6 | - | + | 9300
+ S90 1.1 | + | - | 7710
+ UIQ 2.1 | - | + | (not tested in a device)
- Also S60 2.8 should work fine.
+ (*) Compiles but does not work, unfortunately, a problem with Symbian.
- If you are using the 'make' directly, it is the GNU make from the SDKs,
- and it will invoke the right make commands for the Windows emulator
- build and the Arm target builds ('thumb' by default) as necessary.
- (*) Compiles but does not work, unfortunately.
+If you are using the 'make' directly, it is the GNU make from the SDKs,
+and it will invoke the right make commands for the Windows emulator
+build and the Arm target builds ('thumb' by default) as necessary.
- The build scripts assume the 'absolute style' SDK installs under C:,
- the 'subst style' will not work.
+The build scripts assume the 'absolute style' SDK installs under C:,
+the 'subst style' will not work.
- If using the VC IDE, to build use for example the File->Open Workspace->
- C:\Symbian\8.0a\S60_2nd_FP2\epoc32\build\symbian\perl\perl\wins\perl.dsw
- The emulator binaries will appear in the same directory.
+If using the VC IDE, to build use for example the File->Open Workspace->
+C:\Symbian\8.0a\S60_2nd_FP2\epoc32\build\symbian\perl\perl\wins\perl.dsw
+The emulator binaries will appear in the same directory.
- If using the VC IDE, you will a lot of warnings in the beginning of
- the build because a lot of headers mentioned by the source cannot
- be found, but this is not serious since those headers are not used.
+If using the VC IDE, you will a lot of warnings in the beginning of
+the build because a lot of headers mentioned by the source cannot
+be found, but this is not serious since those headers are not used.
- The Metrowerks will give a lot of warnings about unused variables and
- empty declarations, you can ignore those.
+The Metrowerks will give a lot of warnings about unused variables and
+empty declarations, you can ignore those.
- When the Windows and Arm DLLs are built do not be scared by a very long
- messages whizzing by: it is the "export freeze" phase where the whole
- (rather large) API of Perl is listed.
+When the Windows and Arm DLLs are built do not be scared by a very long
+messages whizzing by: it is the "export freeze" phase where the whole
+(rather large) API of Perl is listed.
- Once the build is completed you need to create the DLL SIS file by
+Once the build is completed you need to create the DLL SIS file by
- make perldll.sis
+ make perldll.sis
- which will create the file perlXYZ.sis (the XYZ being the Perl version)
- which you can then install into your Symbian device: an easy way
- to do this is to send them via Bluetooth or infrared and just open
- the messages.
+which will create the file perlXYZ.sis (the XYZ being the Perl version)
+which you can then install into your Symbian device: an easy way
+to do this is to send them via Bluetooth or infrared and just open
+the messages.
- Since the total size of all Perl SIS files once installed is
- over 2 MB, it is recommended to do the installation into a
- memory card (drive E:) instead of the C: drive.
+Since the total size of all Perl SIS files once installed is
+over 2 MB, it is recommended to do the installation into a
+memory card (drive E:) instead of the C: drive.
- The size of the perlXYZ.SIS is about 370 kB but once it is in the
- device it is about one 750 kB (according to the application manager).
+The size of the perlXYZ.SIS is about 370 kB but once it is in the
+device it is about one 750 kB (according to the application manager).
- The perlXYZ.sis includes only the Perl DLL: to create an additional
- SIS file which includes some of the standard (pure) Perl libraries,
- issue the command
+The perlXYZ.sis includes only the Perl DLL: to create an additional
+SIS file which includes some of the standard (pure) Perl libraries,
+issue the command
- make perllib.sis
+ make perllib.sis
- Some of the standard Perl libraries are included, but not all:
- see L</HISTORY> or F<symbian\install.cfg> for more details
- (250 kB -> 700 kB).
+Some of the standard Perl libraries are included, but not all:
+see L</HISTORY> or F<symbian\install.cfg> for more details
+(250 kB -> 700 kB).
- Some of the standard Perl XS extensions (see L</HISTORY> are
- also available:
+Some of the standard Perl XS extensions (see L</HISTORY> are
+also available:
- make perlext.sis
+ make perlext.sis
- which will create perlXYZext.sis (290 kB -> 770 kB).
+which will create perlXYZext.sis (290 kB -> 770 kB).
- To compile the demonstration application PerlApp you need first to
- install the Perl headers under the SDK.
+To compile the demonstration application PerlApp you need first to
+install the Perl headers under the SDK.
- To install the Perl headers and the class CPerlBase documentation
- so that you no more need the Perl sources around to compile Perl
- applications using the SDK:
+To install the Perl headers and the class CPerlBase documentation
+so that you no more need the Perl sources around to compile Perl
+applications using the SDK:
- make sdkinstall
+ make sdkinstall
- The destination directory is C:\Symbian\perl\X.Y.Z. For more
- details, see F<symbian\PerlBase.pod>.
+The destination directory is C:\Symbian\perl\X.Y.Z. For more
+details, see F<symbian\PerlBase.pod>.
- Once the headers have been installed, you can create a SIS for
- the PerlApp:
+Once the headers have been installed, you can create a SIS for
+the PerlApp:
- make perlapp.sis
+ make perlapp.sis
- The perlapp.sis (11 kB -> 16 kB) will be built in the symbian
- subdirectory, but a copy will also be made to the main directory.
+The perlapp.sis (11 kB -> 16 kB) will be built in the symbian
+subdirectory, but a copy will also be made to the main directory.
- If you want to package the Perl DLLs (one for WINS, one for ARMI),
- the headers, and the documentation:
+If you want to package the Perl DLLs (one for WINS, one for ARMI),
+the headers, and the documentation:
- make perlsdk.zip
+ make perlsdk.zip
- which will create perlXYZsdk.zip that can be used in another
- Windows system with the SDK, without having to compile Perl in
- that system.
+which will create perlXYZsdk.zip that can be used in another
+Windows system with the SDK, without having to compile Perl in
+that system.
- If you want to package the PerlApp sources:
+If you want to package the PerlApp sources:
- make perlapp.zip
+ make perlapp.zip
- If you want to package the perl.exe and miniperl.exe, you
- can use the perlexe.sis and miniperlexe.sis make targets.
- You also probably want the perllib.sis for the libraries
- and maybe even the perlapp.sis for the recognizer.
+If you want to package the perl.exe and miniperl.exe, you
+can use the perlexe.sis and miniperlexe.sis make targets.
+You also probably want the perllib.sis for the libraries
+and maybe even the perlapp.sis for the recognizer.
- The make target 'allsis' combines all the above SIS targets.
+The make target 'allsis' combines all the above SIS targets.
- To clean up after compilation you can use either of
+To clean up after compilation you can use either of
- make clean
- make distclean
+ make clean
+ make distclean
- depending on how clean you want to be.
+depending on how clean you want to be.
=head2 Compilation problems
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
-it means you need to (re)run the symbian\config.pl.
+it means you need to (re)run the F<symbian\config.pl>.
If you get the error
opens a file chooser for selecting a Perl file to run.
The PerlApp also is started when the "Perl recognizer" (also included
-and installed) detects a Perl file being activated througg the GUI,
+and installed) detects a Perl file being activated through the GUI,
and offers either to install it under \Perl (if the Perl file is in
the inbox of the messaging application) or to run it (if the Perl file
is under \Perl).
=head2 sisify.pl
-In the symbian subdirectory there is sisify.pl utility which can be
-used to package Perl scripts and/or Perl library directories into SIS
-files, which can be installed to the device. To run the sisify.pl
-utility, you will need to have the 'makesis' and 'uidcrc' utilities
-already installed. If you don't have the Win32 SDKs, you may try
-for example http://gnupoc.sourceforge.net/ or http://symbianos.org/~andreh/.
+In the symbian subdirectory there is F<sisify.pl> utility which can be used
+to package Perl scripts and/or Perl library directories into SIS files,
+which can be installed to the device. To run the sisify.pl utility,
+you will need to have the 'makesis' and 'uidcrc' utilities already
+installed. If you don't have the Win32 SDKs, you may try for example
+L<http://gnupoc.sourceforge.net/> or L<http://symbianos.org/~andreh/>.
=head2 Using Perl in Symbian
to be left unimplemented on non-UNIX platforms have been left
unimplemented also this time: fork(), signals(), user/group ids,
select() working for sockets, non-blocking sockets, and so forth.
-See the file symbian/config.sh and look for 'undef' to find the
+See the file F<symbian/config.sh> and look for 'undef' to find the
unsupported APIs (or from Perl use Config).
-
+
The filesystem of Symbian devices uses DOSish syntax, "drives"
separated from paths by a colon, and backslashes for the path. The
exact assignment of the drives probably varies between platforms, but
The Perl DLL is installed in \System\Libs\. The Perl libraries and
extension DLLs are installed in \System\Libs\Perl\X.Y.Z\. The PerlApp
is installed in \System\Apps\, and the SIS also installs a couple of
-demo scripts in \Perl\.
+demo scripts in \Perl\ (C:\Mydocs\Perl\ on Nokia 7710).
Note that the Symbian filesystem is very picky: it strongly prefers
the \ instead of the /.
=head1 TO DO
-Lots. See F<symbian\TODO>.
+Lots. See F<symbian/TODO>.
=head1 WARNING
-As of Perl Symbian port version 0.2.0 any part of Perl's standard
+As of Perl Symbian port version 0.4.1 any part of Perl's standard
regression test suite has not been run on a real Symbian device using
the ported Perl, so innumerable bugs may lie in wait. Therefore there
is absolutely no warranty.
=head1 NOTE
When creating and extending application programming interfaces (APIs)
-for Symbian or Series 60 or Series 80 it is suggested that trademarks,
-registered trademarks, or trade names are not used in the API names.
-Instead, developers should consider basing the API naming in the existing
-(C++) public component and API naming, modified as appropriate by the rules
-of the programming language the new APIs are for.
-
+for Symbian or Series 60 or Series 80 or Series 90 it is suggested
+that trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names are not used in
+the API names. Instead, developers should consider basing the API
+naming in the existing (C++, or maybe Java) public component and API
+naming, modified as appropriate by the rules of the programming
+language the new APIs are for.
+
Nokia is a registered trademark of Nokia Corporation. Nokia's product
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nokia. Other product
and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of
Copyright (c) 2004-2005 Nokia. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Jarkko Hietaniemi.
+
=head1 LICENSE
The Symbian port is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.
(This will show as "0.01" in the Symbian Installer.)
- - The console window is a very simple console indeed: one can
- get the newline with "000" and the "C" button is a backspace.
- Do not expect a terminal capable of vt100 or ANSI sequences.
- The console is also "ASCII", you cannot input e.g. any accented
- letters. Because of obvious physical constraints the console is
- also very small: (in Nokia 6600) 22 columns, 17 rows.
- - The following libraries are available:
- AnyDBM_File AutoLoader base Carp Config Cwd constant
- DynaLoader Exporter File::Spec integer lib strict Symbol
- vars warnings XSLoader
- - The following extensions are available:
- attrs Compress::Zlib Cwd Data::Dumper Devel::Peek Digest::MD5 DynaLoader
- Fcntl File::Glob Filter::Util::Call IO List::Util MIME::Base64
- PerlIO::scalar PerlIO::via SDBM_File Socket Storable Time::HiRes
- - The following extensions are missing for various technical reasons:
- B ByteLoader Devel::DProf Devel::PPPort Encode GDBM_File
- I18N::Langinfo IPC::SysV NDBM_File Opcode PerlIO::encoding POSIX
- re Safe Sys::Hostname Sys::Syslog
- threads threads::shared Unicode::Normalize
- - Using MakeMaker or the Module::* to build and install modules
- is not supported.
- - Building XS other than the ones in the core is not supported.
+ - The console window is a very simple console indeed: one can
+ get the newline with "000" and the "C" button is a backspace.
+ Do not expect a terminal capable of vt100 or ANSI sequences.
+ The console is also "ASCII", you cannot input e.g. any accented
+ letters. Because of obvious physical constraints the console is
+ also very small: (in Nokia 6600) 22 columns, 17 rows.
+ - The following libraries are available:
+ AnyDBM_File AutoLoader base Carp Config Cwd constant
+ DynaLoader Exporter File::Spec integer lib strict Symbol
+ vars warnings XSLoader
+ - The following extensions are available:
+ attributes Compress::Zlib Cwd Data::Dumper Devel::Peek
+ Digest::MD5 DynaLoader Fcntl File::Glob Filter::Util::Call
+ IO List::Util MIME::Base64
+ PerlIO::scalar PerlIO::via SDBM_File Socket Storable Time::HiRes
+ - The following extensions are missing for various technical
+ reasons:
+ B ByteLoader Devel::DProf Devel::PPPort Encode GDBM_File
+ I18N::Langinfo IPC::SysV NDBM_File Opcode PerlIO::encoding POSIX
+ re Safe Sys::Hostname Sys::Syslog
+ threads threads::shared Unicode::Normalize
+ - Using MakeMaker or the Module::* to build and install modules
+ is not supported.
+ - Building XS other than the ones in the core is not supported.
Since this is 0.something release, any future releases are almost
guaranteed to be binary incompatible. As a sign of this the Symbian
-symbol exports are kept unfrozen and the .def files rebuilt every
-time.
+symbol exports are kept unfrozen and the .def files fully rebuilt
+every time.
=item *
We maintain the binary incompatibility.
+=item *
+
+0.3.0: October 2005
+
+ - Perl 5.9.3 (patch level 25911)
+ - Series 80 2.0 and UIQ 2.1 support
+
+We maintain the binary incompatibility.
+
+=item *
+
+0.4.0: November 2005
+
+ - Perl 5.9.3 (patch level 26052)
+ - adding a sample Symbian extension
+
+We maintain the binary incompatibility.
+
+=item *
+
+0.4.1: December 2006
+
+ - Perl 5.9.5-to-be (patch level 30002)
+ - added extensions: Compress/Raw/Zlib, Digest/SHA,
+ Hash/Util, Math/BigInt/FastCalc, Text/Soundex, Time/Piece
+ - port to S90 1.1 by alexander smishlajev
+
+We maintain the binary incompatibility.
+
+=item *
+
+0.4.2: March 2007
+
+ - catchup with Perl 5.9.5-to-be (patch level 30812)
+ - tested to build with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
+ (which uses Microsoft Visual C 8, instead of the old VC6),
+ SDK used for testing S60_2nd_FP3 aka 8.1a
+
+We maintain the binary incompatibility.
+
=back
=cut
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