=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 1997/03/25 18:15:48 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
with. CPAN only has binaries for systems that are terribly hard to
get free compilers for, not for Unix systems.
+Your first stop should be http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports to see what
+information is already available. A simple installation guide for
+MS-DOS is available at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/perl5dos.html , and
+similarly for Windows 3.1 at http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/perlwin3.html
+.
+
+=head2 I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
+
+Since you don't have a C compiler, you're doomed and your vendor
+should be sacrificed to the Sun gods. But that doesn't help you.
+
+What you need to do is get a binary version of gcc for your system
+first. Consult the Usenet FAQs for your operating system for
+information on where to get such a binary version.
+
=head2 I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
That's probably because you forgot libraries, or library paths differ.
approaches are doomed to failure.
One simple way to check that things are in the right place is to print out
-the hard-coded @INC which perl is looking for.
+the hardcoded @INC which perl is looking for.
perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)'
may need to move the appropriate libraries to these locations, or create
symlinks, aliases, or shortcuts appropriately.
+You might also want to check out L<perlfaq8/"How do I keep my own
+module/library directory?">.
+
=head2 I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
Read the F<INSTALL> file, which is part of the source distribution.
-It describes in detail how to cope with most idiosyncracies that the
+It describes in detail how to cope with most idiosyncrasies that the
Configure script can't work around for any given system or
architecture.
CPAN stands for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a huge archive
replicated on dozens of machines all over the world. CPAN contains
-source code, non-native ports, documentation, scripts, and many
+source code, nonnative ports, documentation, scripts, and many
third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from
commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web
walking and CGI scripts. The master machine for CPAN is
What follows is a list of the books that the FAQ authors found personally
useful. Your mileage may (but, we hope, probably won't) vary.
-If you're already a hard-core systems programmer, then the Camel Book
+If you're already a hardcore systems programmer, then the Camel Book
just might suffice for you to learn Perl from. But if you're not,
check out the "Llama Book". It currently doesn't cover perl5, but the
2nd edition is nearly done and should be out by summer 97:
(orwant@tpj.com), editor. Subscription information is at http://tpj.com
or via email to subscriptions@tpj.com.
-Beyond this, two other magazines that frequently carry high-quality articles
-on Perl are Web Techniques (see http://www.webtechniques.com/) and
-Unix Review (http://www.unixreview.com/).
+Beyond this, two other magazines that frequently carry high-quality
+articles on Perl are Web Techniques (see
+http://www.webtechniques.com/) and Unix Review
+(http://www.unixreview.com/). Randal Schwartz's Web Technique's
+columns are available on the web at
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ .
=head2 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
To get the best (and possibly cheapest) performance, pick a site from
the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites.
->From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the
+From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the
following list is I<not> the complete list of CPAN mirrors.
http://www.perl.com/CPAN (redirects to another mirror)
"mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch".
Also see Matthias Neeracher's (the creator and maintainer of MacPerl)
-webpage at http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html for
+web page at http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html for
many links to interesting MacPerl sites, and the applications/MPW
tools, precompiled.
shipped with perl, use the perlbug program in the perl distribution or
email your report to perlbug@perl.com.
-If you are posting a bug with a non-standard port (see the answer to
+If you are posting a bug with a nonstandard port (see the answer to
"What platforms is Perl available for?"), a binary distribution, or a
-non-standard module (such as Tk, CGI, etc), then please see the
+nonstandard module (such as Tk, CGI, etc), then please see the
documentation that came with it to determine the correct place to post
bugs.
-Read the perlbug man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information.
+Read the perlbug manpage (perl5.004 or later) for more information.
=head2 What is perl.com? perl.org? The Perl Institute?
perl.org is the official vehicle for The Perl Institute. The motto of
TPI is "helping people help Perl help people" (or something like
-that). It's a non-profit organization supporting development,
+that). It's a nonprofit organization supporting development,
documentation, and dissemination of perl. Current directors of TPI
include Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz, whom you
may have heard of somewhere else around here.
The perl.com domain is Tom Christiansen's domain. He created it as a
public service long before perl.org came about. It's the original PBS
of the Perl world, a clearinghouse for information about all things
-Perlian, accepting no paid advertisements, glossy gifs, or (gasp!)
-java applets on its pages.
+Perlian, accepting no paid advertisements, glossy GIFs, or (gasp!)
+Java applets on its pages.
=head2 How do I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
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