Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe@gmx.de>
http://www.linuxstart.com/~oflebbe/perl/perl5.html
-2000-01-08
+2000-05-15
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Introduction
EPOC is a OS for palmtops and mobile phones. For more informations look at:
http://www.symbian.com/
-This is a port of Perl version 5.005_63 to EPOC. It runs on the Perl
-Series 5, Series 5mx. I have no reports about the Psion Revo, the
-Ericcson (??) and the Psion NetBook. I only have acess to an Series 5.
+This is a port of Perl version 5.6.0 to EPOC. It runs on the Perl
+Series 5, Series 5mx and the Psion Revo and on the Ericson M128.
Features are left out, because of restrictions of the POSIX support.
directory very well (i.e. not at all, but it tries hard to emulate
one) See PATH.
-+ sockets seems to work now!
-
+ You need the shell eshell.exe in order to run perl.exe and supply
it with arguments.
Unpack the sources.
- Build a native miniperl...
+ Build a native perl from this sources...
cp epoc/* .
- for i in *.SH ; do
- sh $i
- done
+ ./Configure -S
make perl
cp miniperl.native miniperl
make perl
- perl linkit perlmain.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a \
+ perl link.pl perlmain.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a \
lib/auto/Data/Dumper.a \
lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.a lib/auto/IO/IO.a \
lib/auto/Socket/Socket.a perl.a `cat ext.libs`
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-TODO
+Wish List
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-- Get the HTTPD::* working (Hey, It worked the first time for me!)
- Threads ?
- Acess to the GUI?
I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't
guarantee I'll be able to answer them; I don't know much about Perl
-internals myself;
+internals myself.