perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
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.
You need an installed and working GCCSDK cross-compiler and REXEN.
First, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host system. Then, in the source to be cross-compiled:
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$ ./Configure 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
Configurenon-interactively (see the INSTALL document for details), to have it select the correct hint file, you'll need to provide the argument-Dhintfile=riscoson theConfigurecommand-line.-
$ make miniperl This should build
miniperland then fail when it tries to run it.Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to replace the cross-compiled miniperl.
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$ make This will use
miniperlto complete the rest of the build.
Alex Waugh <[email protected]>