either edit the Makefile by hand, using Descrip.MMS as a guide, or use the
Makefile to build Miniperl.Exe, and then run the Perl script MMS2Make.pl,
found in the [.VMS] subdirectory, to generate a new Makefile with the options
-appropriate to your site. If you are using MM[SK], and you decide to rebuild
-Perl with a different set of parameters (e.g. changing the C compiler, or
-adding socket support), be sure to say
+appropriate to your site.
+
+If you are using MM[SK], and you decide to rebuild Perl with a different set
+of parameters (e.g. changing the C compiler, or adding socket support), be
+sure to say
$ MMK/Descrip=[.VMS] realclean
first, in order to remove files generated during the previous build. If
you omit this step, you risk ending up with a copy of Perl which
h2xs - Perl program which generates template files for creating
XSUB extensions, optionally beginning with the #defined
constants in a C header file.
- [.pod]perldoc - A Perl program which locates and displays documentation
+ [.lib.pod]perldoc - A Perl program which locates and displays documentation
for Perl and its extensions.
[.Lib]Config.pm - the Perl extension which saves configuration information
about Perl and your system.
Once the build is complete, you'll need to do the following:
- Put PerlShr.Exe in a common directory, and make it world-readable.
If you place it in a location other than Sys$Share, you'll need to
- define the logical name PerlShr to point to the image.
+ define the logical name PerlShr to point to the image. (If you're
+ installing on a VMScluster, be sure that each node is using the
+ copy of PerlShr you expect [e.g. if you put PerlShr.Exe in Sys$Share,
+ do they all share Sys$Share?]).
- Put Perl.Exe in a common directory, and make it world-executable.
- Define a foreign command to invoke Perl, using a statement like
$ Perl == "$dev:[dir]Perl.Exe"
can do this by sending a message to perl5-porters-request@nicoh.com, containing
the single line
subscribe perl5-porters
-This is a moderately high-volume list at the moment (25-50 messages/day).
+This is a high-volume list at the moment (>50 messages/day).
If you're interested in ongoing information about the VMS port, you can
subscribe to the VMSperl mailing list by sending a request to
for the getredirection() code
Rich Salz <rsalz@bbn.com>
for readdir() and related routines
- Denis Haskin <DWH@epub.ziff.com>
- for work on a pod-to-hlp translator for the Perl documentation
Richard Dyson <dyson@blaze.physics.uiowa.edu> and
Kent Covert <kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
for additional testing on the AXP.