PERLRISCOS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLRISCOS(1)
NAME
perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
DESCRIPTION
This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is
complicated by the need to cross-compile. There is a binary version of
perl available from <https://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
use instead of trying to compile it yourself.
BUILD
You need an installed and working GCCSDK
<https://www.riscos.info/downloads/gccsdk/latest/> cross-compiler and
REXEN <https://www.cp15.org/programming/>.
First, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host
system. Then, in the source to be cross-compiled:
1.
$ ./Configure
2. Select the RISC OS hint file (hints/riscos.sh). The default answers
for the rest of the questions are usually sufficient.
Note that, if you wish to run "Configure" non-interactively (see the
INSTALL document for details), to have it select the correct hint
file, you'll need to provide the argument "-Dhintfile=riscos" on the
"Configure" command-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 to
replace the cross-compiled miniperl.
6.
$ make
7. This will use "miniperl" to complete the rest of the build.
AUTHOR
Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>
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