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1 | NAME |
2 | PerlCE - perl for Windows CE |
3 | |
4 | DESCRIPTION |
5 | PerlCE is a simple port of perl to Windows CE. The program |
6 | is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also |
7 | works on non-hpc devices. |
8 | |
9 | The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt, |
10 | stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your |
11 | console has only a liminted number of cols. |
12 | |
13 | When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the |
14 | console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with |
15 | status 0 in your program to see any output. |
16 | |
17 | stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and |
18 | /perl-stderr.txt. |
19 | |
20 | LIMITATIONS |
21 | No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc. |
22 | |
23 | ENVIRONMENT |
24 | All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as |
25 | strings. They are read at process startup. |
26 | |
27 | PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list). |
28 | PATH - Semi-list for executables. |
29 | TMP - Tempdir. |
30 | UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files, |
31 | i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services. |
32 | ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console. |
33 | HOME - Home directory. |
34 | CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font. |
35 | |
36 | You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor |
37 | or via the PerlIDE. |
38 | |
39 | REGISTRY |
40 | To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have |
41 | to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat). |
42 | cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with |
43 | ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices. |
44 | You have to create the registry entries by hand using a |
45 | registry editor. |
46 | |
47 | FILES |
48 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/dev/null - nul simulation, needed for perl -V |
49 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/etc/services - services file |
50 | |
51 | /perl-stdin.txt |
52 | /perl-stdout.txt |
53 | /perl-stderr.txt |
54 | |
55 | PERLFILES |
56 | Only a limited set of perl files is provided in the |
57 | distribution archiv. You have to copy the original PERL5LIB |
58 | files from a perl for win32 installation and put the |
59 | distributed files into the right directories. |
60 | |
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61 | The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do |
62 | some socket stuff: |
63 | |
64 | ./auto |
65 | ./auto/DynaLoader |
66 | ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix |
67 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al |
68 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al |
69 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al |
70 | ./auto/IO |
71 | ./auto/IO/IO.bs |
72 | ./auto/IO/IO.dll |
73 | ./auto/Socket |
74 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs |
75 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll |
76 | ./Carp |
77 | ./Carp/Heavy.pm |
78 | ./Carp.pm |
79 | ./Config.pm |
80 | ./DynaLoader.pm |
81 | ./Exporter |
82 | ./Exporter/Heavy.pm |
83 | ./Exporter.pm |
84 | ./IO |
85 | ./IO/File.pm |
86 | ./IO/Handle.pm |
87 | ./IO/Socket.pm |
88 | ./IO.pm |
89 | ./SelectSaver.pm |
90 | ./Socket.pm |
91 | ./strict.pm |
92 | ./Symbol.pm |
93 | ./warnings |
94 | ./warnings/register.pm |
95 | ./warnings.pm |
96 | ./XSLoader.pm |
97 | |
98 | XS |
99 | The following Win32-Methods are built-in: |
100 | |
101 | newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file); |
102 | newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file); |
103 | newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file); |
104 | newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file); |
105 | newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file); |
106 | newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file); |
107 | newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file); |
108 | newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file); |
109 | newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file); |
110 | newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file); |
111 | newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file); |
112 | newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file); |
113 | newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file); |
114 | |
115 | DLLS |
116 | In the newest version, my celib.dll is needed. Some XS dlls |
117 | might be needed. Currently, Socket and IO are provided. |
118 | |
119 | BUGS |
120 | Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if |
121 | they use stdio (normal perl file handles). |
122 | |
123 | If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your |
124 | device, send mail to the address below. Please report |
125 | the details of your device (processor, ceversion, |
126 | devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded |
127 | files. |
128 | |
129 | I currently have only a Compaq/MIPS HPC, a Jornada/SH3 HPC and |
130 | a Jornada/ARM HPC, so I can only test on these devices and |
131 | under the Emulators. |
132 | |
133 | INSTALLATION |
134 | This is only a suggestion... |
135 | |
136 | * Unpack the tar archive on your desktop. |
137 | * Create directories /bin, /lib/perl5, /home, /dev and /etc, |
138 | possibly on a CF card with the path to the card |
139 | prepended (i.e. /memcard/bin etc). |
140 | * Copy perl.exe, perl56.dll and celib.dll from your desktop to |
141 | /bin. The dlls can also be copied to your /windows |
142 | directory, but if you use a CF card, you might want to store |
143 | them there. |
144 | * Copy the other DLLs to the corresponding auto directory. |
145 | * Copy any needed perl module-files to /lib/perl5. |
146 | * Create the registry entries. |
147 | * If you need tcp service-name resolution, create |
148 | the file "services" in /etc and put int the entries you need. |
149 | |
150 | * Under WINCE200, all dlls must be copied to the windows |
151 | directory. |
152 | |
153 | MISC |
154 | If you think a certain XS module should be ported, send |
155 | me mail and explain why. |
156 | |
157 | If you write useful scripts for perlce, please send me |
158 | a copy. |
159 | |
160 | TERMINAL |
161 | There are simple terminal control sequences now. See the |
162 | readme file that comes with the console program. |
163 | |
164 | AUTHOR |
165 | Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de> 2001 |
166 | |