perlmodlib Perl modules: how to write and use
perlmodinstall Perl modules: how to install from CPAN
perlform Perl formats
+ perlunicode Perl unicode support
perllocale Perl locale support
perlreftut Perl references short introduction
perlref Perl references, the rest of the story
perldsc Perl data structures intro
perllol Perl data structures: arrays of arrays
+ perlboot Perl OO tutorial for beginners
perltoot Perl OO tutorial, part 1
perltootc Perl OO tutorial, part 2
perlobj Perl objects
perltie Perl objects hidden behind simple variables
perlbot Perl OO tricks and examples
perlipc Perl interprocess communication
+ perlfork Perl fork() information
perlthrtut Perl threads tutorial
- perldbmfilter Perl DBM Filters
+ perllexwarn Perl warnings and their control
+ perlfilter Perl source filters
+ perldbmfilter Perl DBM filters
perlcompile Perl compiler suite intro
perldebug Perl debugging
perldiag Perl diagnostic messages
+ perlnumber Perl number semantics
perlsec Perl security
perltrap Perl traps for the unwary
perlport Perl portability guide
perlxstut Perl XS tutorial
perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C
+ perlapi Perl API listing (autogenerated)
+ perlintern Perl internal functions (autogenerated)
perltodo Perl things to do
+ perlhack Perl hackers guide
perlhist Perl history records
+ perlamiga Perl notes for Amiga
+ perlcygwin Perl notes for Cygwin
+ perldos Perl notes for DOS
+ perlhpux Perl notes for HP-UX
+ perlos2 Perl notes for OS/2
+ perlos390 Perl notes for OS/390
+ perlvms Perl notes for VMS
+ perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows
+
(If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time,
the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.)
Perl is available for most operating systems, including virtually
all Unix-like platforms.
-As of May 1999, the following platforms are able to build Perl
-from the standard source code distribution available at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
-
- AIX Linux SCO ODT/OSR
- A/UX MachTen Solaris
- BeOS MPE/iX SunOS
- BSD/OS NetBSD SVR4
- DG/UX NextSTEP Tru64 UNIX 3)
- DomainOS OpenBSD Ultrix
- DOS DJGPP 1) OpenSTEP UNICOS
- DYNIX/ptx OS/2 VMS
- FreeBSD OS390 2) VOS
- HP-UX PowerMAX Windows 3.1 1)
- Hurd QNX Windows 95 1) 4)
- IRIX Windows 98 1) 4)
- Windows NT 1) 4)
+As of early March 2000 (the Perl release 5.6.0), the following
+platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
+distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
+
+ AIX
+ DOS DJGPP 1)
+ FreeBSD
+ HP-UX
+ IRIX
+ Linux
+ LynxOS
+ MachTen
+ MPE/iX
+ NetBSD
+ OpenBSD
+ OS/2
+ Rhapsody/Darwin 2)
+ Solaris
+ Tru64 UNIX 3)
+ UNICOS
+ UNICOS/mk
+ VMS
+ VOS
+ Windows 3.1 1)
+ Windows 95 1) 4)
+ Windows 98 1) 4)
+ Windows NT 1) 4)
1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
- 2) formerly known as MVS
- 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
+ 2) new in 5.6.0: the BSD/NeXT-based UNIX of Mac OS X
+ 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-
-The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source,
-but we haven't been able to verify their status for the current release,
-either because the hardware/software platforms are rare or
-because we don't have an active champion on these platforms--or both.
-
- 3b1 FPS Plan 9
- AmigaOS GENIX PowerUX
- ConvexOS Greenhills RISC/os
- CX/UX ISC Stellar
- DC/OSx MachTen 68k SVR2
- DDE SMES MiNT TI1500
- DOS EMX MPC TitanOS
- Dynix NEWS-OS UNICOS/mk
- EP/IX Opus Unisys Dynix
- ESIX Unixware
-
-Support for the following platforms is planned for the next major
-Perl release.
-
- BS2000
+
+The following platforms worked for the previous major release
+(5.005_03 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early
+March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0
+release of Perl. There is a very good chance that these will work
+just fine with 5.6.0.
+
+ A/UX
+ BeOS
+ BSD/OS
+ DG/UX
+ DYNIX/ptx
+ DomainOS
+ Hurd
+ NextSTEP
+ OpenSTEP
+ PowerMAX
+ QNX
+ SCO ODT/OSR
+ SunOS
+ SVR4
+ Ultrix
+
+The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
+being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000).
+However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
+in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform.
+Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release:
+
+ OS390 1)
+
+ 1) Previously known as MVS, or OpenEdition MVS.
+
+Strongly related to the OS390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based
+mainframe platforms are the following platforms:
+
+ BS2000
+ VM/ESA
+
+These are also not expected to work under 5.6.0 for the same reasons
+as OS390. Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org for more details.
+
+MacOS (Classic, pre-X) is almost 5.6.0-ready; building from the source
+does work with 5.6.0, but additional MacOS specific source code is needed
+for a complete port. Contact the mailing list macperl-porters@macperl.org
+for more more information.
+
+The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in
+the past, but we haven't been able to verify their status for the
+current release, either because the hardware/software platforms are
+rare or because we don't have an active champion on these
+platforms--or both:
+
+ 3b1
+ AmigaOS
+ ConvexOS
+ CX/UX
+ DC/OSx
+ DDE SMES
+ DOS EMX
+ Dynix
+ EP/IX
+ ESIX
+ FPS
+ GENIX
+ Greenhills
+ ISC
+ MachTen 68k
+ MiNT
+ MPC
+ NEWS-OS
+ Opus
+ Plan 9
+ PowerUX
+ RISC/os
+ Stellar
+ SVR2
+ TI1500
+ TitanOS
+ Unisys Dynix
+ Unixware
+
+Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release:
+
Netware
- Rhapsody
- VM/ESA
The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
-binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html.
+binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
Perl release
AS/400 5.003
- MacOS 5.004
Netware 5.003_07
Tandem Guardian 5.004
The following platforms have only binaries available via
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html.
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
Perl release
AOS 5.002
LynxOS 5.004_02
+Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from
+the source code, both for maximal configurability and for security,
+in case you are in a hurry you can check
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html for binary distributions.
+
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
See L<perlrun>.
s2p sed to perl translator
http://www.perl.com/ the Perl Home Page
- http://www.perl.com/CPAN the Comphrehensive Perl Archive
+ http://www.perl.com/CPAN the Comprehensive Perl Archive
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
-The B<-w> switch produces some lovely diagnostics.
+The C<use warnings> pragma (and the B<-w> switch) produces some
+lovely diagnostics.
See L<perldiag> for explanations of all Perl's diagnostics. The C<use
diagnostics> pragma automatically turns Perl's normally terse warnings
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