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NAME

perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS

DESCRIPTION

This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It iscomplicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version ofperl available from http://www.cp15.org/perl/ which you may wish touse instead of trying to compile it yourself.

BUILD

You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compilerhttp://gccsdk.riscos.info/ and REXENhttp://www.cp15.org/programming/

Firstly, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your hostsystem.Then, in the source to be cross compiled:

1.

 $ ./Configure
 

2.

Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of thequestions are usually sufficient.

Note that, if you wish to run Configure non-interactively (see the INSTALLdocument for details), to have it select the correct hint file, you'llneed to provide the argument -Dhintfile=riscos on the Configurecommand-line.

3.

 $ make miniperl
 

4.

This should build miniperl and then fail when it tries to run it.

5.

Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier toreplace the cross compiled miniperl.

6.

 $ make
 

7.

This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.

AUTHOR

Alex Waugh <[email protected]>