=head1 SYNOPSIS
-Perl 5 README file for the EPOC operating system.
+Perl 5 README file for the EPOC Release 5 operating system.
=head1 INTRODUCTION
EPOC is an OS for palmtops and mobile phones. For more informations look at:
http://www.symbian.com/
-This is a port of perl to EPOC. It runs on ER5 machines: Psion 5mx,
-5mx Pro, Psion Revo, Psion Netbook and on the Ericson M128. It runs on
-ER3 Hardware (Series 5 classic), too. For more information about this
-hardware please refer to http://www.psion.com.
+This is a port of perl to the epocemx SDK by Eberhard Mattes, which
+itselfs uses the SDK by symbian. Essentially epocemx it is a POSIX
+look alike environment for the EPOC OS. For more informations look at:
+http://www.windhager.de/~mattes/epocemx/
+
+perl and epocemx runs on Epoc Release 5 machines: Psion 5mx, 5mx Pro,
+Psion Revo, Psion Netbook and on the Ericson M128. It may run on Epoc
+Release 3 Hardware (Series 5 classic), too. For more information about
+this hardware please refer to http://www.psion.com.
Vendors which like to have support for their devices are free to send
me a sample.
=head1 INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
You can download a ready-to-install version from
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl. You may find other
-versions with some CPAN modules included at this location.
+http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl.
-You will need at least ~4MB free space in order to install and run
+You will need at least ~6MB free space in order to install and run
perl.
+Please install the emxusr.sis package from
+http://www.windhager.de/~mattes/epocemx/ first.
+
Install perl.sis on the EPOC machine. If you do not know how to do
that, consult your PsiWin documentation.
-Perl itself and its standard library is using 2.5 MB disk space.
+Perl itself and its standard library is using 4 MB disk space.
Unicode support and some other modules are left out. (For details,
please look into epoc/createpkg.pl). If you like to use these modules,
you are free to copy them from a current perl release.
=head1 STARTING PERL ON EPOC
-For ER5 machines, you can get the software Perlstart
-http://www.science-computing.de/o.flebbe/perl. It contains file
-recognizers for files with the extension .pl and .pm. With it you can
-start perl with a double click on the camel icon. Be sure to configure
-the perl installation drive first. You can even provide a script with
-a special commandline, if needed.
-
-Alternatively you can use the epocemx shell
-
-If you have an ER3 machine (i.e. a PSION 5), you may have to supply the
-full path to the perl executable C:\system\programs\perl.exe.
-
-If you need to set the current directory of perl, please use the
-command line switch '-x'. See L<perlrun> for details.
-
-=head1 STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
-
-You can stop a running perl process in the task list by closing the
-application `STDOUT'. You can use the kill command in the epocemx
-shell to kill perl.
-
-=head1 USING PERL ON EPOC
-
-=head2 I/O Redirection on Epoc
-
-You can redirect the output with the UNIX bourne shell syntax (this is
-built into perl rather then eshell) For instance the following command
-line will run the script test.pl with the output redirected to
-stdout_file, the errors to stderr_file and input from stdin_file.
-
-perl test.pl >stdout_file <stdin_file 2>stderr_file
-
-Alternatively you can use 2>&1 in order to add the standard error
-output to stdout.
-
-=head2 PATH Names on Epoc
-
-ESHELL looks for executables in ?:/System/Programs. The SIS file
-installs perl in this special folder directory. The default drive and
-path are the same as folder the executable resides. The EPOC
-filesystem is case-preserving, not case-sensitive.
-
-The EPOC estdlib uses the ?: syntax for establishing a search order:
-First in C: (RAM), then on D: (CF Card, if present) and last in Z:
-(ROM). For instance ?:\a.txt searches for C:\a.txt, D:\a.txt (and
-Z:\a.txt)
-
-The perl @INC search path is implemented with '?:'. Your perl
-executable can live on a different drive than the perl library or even
-your scripts.
-
-ESHELL paths have to be written with backslashes '\', file arguments
-to perl with slashes '/'. Remember that I/O redirection is done
-internally in perl, so please use slashes for redirects.
-
-perl.exe C:/test.pl >C:/output.txt
+Please use the epocemx shell to start perl. perl integrates with the
+conventions of epocemx.
=head2 Editors on Epoc
=item *
-backquoting, pipes etc.
-
-=item *
-
-system() does not inherit resources like: file descriptors,
-environment etc.
-
-=item *
-
-signal, kill, alarm. Do not try to use them. This may be
+kill, alarm and signals. Do not try to use them. This may be
impossible to implement on EPOC.
=item *
=item *
-You will need the epocemx SDK from Eberhard Mattes. Watch out for an
-announcement.
+You will need the epocemx SDK from Eberhard Mattes.
=item *
./Configure -S
make
cp miniperl.native miniperl
+ touch miniperl.exe
make
perl createpkg.pl
=head1 SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't
-guarantee I'll be able to answer them.
+guarantee I'll be able to answer them. Since the port to epocemx is
+quite new, please check the web for updates first.
+
+Very special thanks to Eberhard Mattes for epocemx.
=head1 AUTHOR
=head1 LAST UPDATE
-2001-12-12
+2002-03-26
=cut
=over 4
-=item devnull
-
-Returns a string representation of the null device.
-
-=cut
-
-sub devnull {
- return "nul:";
-}
-
-=item tmpdir
-
-Returns a string representation of a temporay directory:
-
-=cut
-
-my $tmpdir;
-sub tmpdir {
- return "C:/System/temp";
-}
-
sub case_tolerant {
return 1;
}
-sub file_name_is_absolute {
- my ($self,$file) = @_;
- return scalar($file =~ m{^([a-z?]:)?[\\/]}is);
-}
-
-=item path
-
-Takes no argument, returns the environment variable PATH as an array. Since
-there is no search path supported, it returns undef, sorry.
-
-=cut
-
-sub path {
- return undef;
-}
-
=item canonpath()
No physical check on the filesystem, but a logical cleanup of a
sub canonpath {
my ($self,$path) = @_;
- $path =~ s/^([a-z]:)/\u$1/s;
- $path =~ s|/+|/|g unless($^O eq 'cygwin'); # xx////xx -> xx/xx
+ $path =~ s|/+|/|g; # xx////xx -> xx/xx
$path =~ s|(/\.)+/|/|g; # xx/././xx -> xx/xx
$path =~ s|^(\./)+||s unless $path eq "./"; # ./xx -> xx
$path =~ s|^/(\.\./)+|/|s; # /../../xx -> xx
- $path =~ s|/\z|| unless $path eq "/"; # xx/ -> xx
+ $path =~ s|/\Z(?!\n)|| unless $path eq "/"; # xx/ -> xx
return $path;
}
-=item splitpath
-
- ($volume,$directories,$file) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path );
- ($volume,$directories,$file) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path, $no_file );
-
-Splits a path in to volume, directory, and filename portions. Assumes that
-the last file is a path unless the path ends in '\\', '\\.', '\\..'
-or $no_file is true. On Win32 this means that $no_file true makes this return
-( $volume, $path, undef ).
-
-Separators accepted are \ and /.
-
-The results can be passed to L</catpath> to get back a path equivalent to
-(usually identical to) the original path.
-
-=cut
-
-sub splitpath {
- my ($self,$path, $nofile) = @_;
- my ($volume,$directory,$file) = ('','','');
- if ( $nofile ) {
- $path =~
- m{^( (?:[a-zA-Z?]:|(?:\\\\|//)[^\\/]+[\\/][^\\/]+)? )
- (.*)
- }xs;
- $volume = $1;
- $directory = $2;
- }
- else {
- $path =~
- m{^ ( (?: [a-zA-Z?]: |
- (?:\\\\|//)[^\\/]+[\\/][^\\/]+
- )?
- )
- ( (?:.*[\\\\/](?:\.\.?\z)?)? )
- (.*)
- }xs;
- $volume = $1;
- $directory = $2;
- $file = $3;
- }
-
- return ($volume,$directory,$file);
-}
-
-
-=item splitdir
-
-The opposite of L<catdir()|File::Spec/catdir()>.
-
- @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir( $directories );
-
-$directories must be only the directory portion of the path on systems
-that have the concept of a volume or that have path syntax that differentiates
-files from directories.
-
-Unlike just splitting the directories on the separator, leading empty and
-trailing directory entries can be returned, because these are significant
-on some OSs. So,
-
- File::Spec->splitdir( "/a/b/c" );
-
-Yields:
-
- ( '', 'a', 'b', '', 'c', '' )
-
-=cut
-
-sub splitdir {
- my ($self,$directories) = @_ ;
- #
- # split() likes to forget about trailing null fields, so here we
- # check to be sure that there will not be any before handling the
- # simple case.
- #
- if ( $directories !~ m|[\\/]\z| ) {
- return split( m|[\\/]|, $directories );
- }
- else {
- #
- # since there was a trailing separator, add a file name to the end,
- # then do the split, then replace it with ''.
- #
- my( @directories )= split( m|[\\/]|, "${directories}dummy" ) ;
- $directories[ $#directories ]= '' ;
- return @directories ;
- }
-}
-
-
-=item catpath
-
-Takes volume, directory and file portions and returns an entire path. Under
-Unix, $volume is ignored, and this is just like catfile(). On other OSs,
-the $volume become significant.
-
-=cut
-
-sub catpath {
- my ($self,$volume,$directory,$file) = @_;
-
- # If it's UNC, make sure the glue separator is there, reusing
- # whatever separator is first in the $volume
- $volume .= $1
- if ( $volume =~ m@^([\\/])[\\/][^\\/]+[\\/][^\\/]+\z@s &&
- $directory =~ m@^[^\\/]@s
- ) ;
-
- $volume .= $directory ;
-
- # If the volume is not just A:, make sure the glue separator is
- # there, reusing whatever separator is first in the $volume if possible.
- if ( $volume !~ m@^[a-zA-Z]:\z@s &&
- $volume =~ m@[^\\/]\z@ &&
- $file =~ m@[^\\/]@
- ) {
- $volume =~ m@([\\/])@ ;
- my $sep = $1 ? $1 : '\\' ;
- $volume .= $sep ;
- }
-
- $volume .= $file ;
-
- return $volume ;
-}
-
-
-=item abs2rel
-
-Takes a destination path and an optional base path returns a relative path
-from the base path to the destination path:
-
- $rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel( $destination ) ;
- $rel_path = File::Spec->abs2rel( $destination, $base ) ;
-
-If $base is not present or '', then L<cwd()|Cwd> is used. If $base is relative,
-then it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>. This means that it
-is taken to be relative to L<cwd()|Cwd>.
-
-On systems with the concept of a volume, this assumes that both paths
-are on the $destination volume, and ignores the $base volume.
-
-On systems that have a grammar that indicates filenames, this ignores the
-$base filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
-directories.
-
-If $path is relative, it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>.
-This means that it is taken to be relative to L<cwd()|Cwd>.
-
-Based on code written by Shigio Yamaguchi.
-
-No checks against the filesystem are made.
-
-=cut
-
-sub abs2rel {
- my($self,$path,$base) = @_;
-
- # Clean up $path
- if ( ! $self->file_name_is_absolute( $path ) ) {
- $path = $self->rel2abs( $path ) ;
- }
- else {
- $path = $self->canonpath( $path ) ;
- }
-
- # Figure out the effective $base and clean it up.
- if ( ! $self->file_name_is_absolute( $base ) ) {
- $base = $self->rel2abs( $base ) ;
- }
- elsif ( !defined( $base ) || $base eq '' ) {
- $base = cwd() ;
- }
- else {
- $base = $self->canonpath( $base ) ;
- }
-
- # Split up paths
- my ( $path_volume, $path_directories, $path_file ) =
- $self->splitpath( $path, 1 ) ;
-
- my ( undef, $base_directories, undef ) =
- $self->splitpath( $base, 1 ) ;
-
- # Now, remove all leading components that are the same
- my @pathchunks = $self->splitdir( $path_directories );
- my @basechunks = $self->splitdir( $base_directories );
-
- while ( @pathchunks &&
- @basechunks &&
- lc( $pathchunks[0] ) eq lc( $basechunks[0] )
- ) {
- shift @pathchunks ;
- shift @basechunks ;
- }
-
- # No need to catdir, we know these are well formed.
- $path_directories = CORE::join( '\\', @pathchunks );
- $base_directories = CORE::join( '\\', @basechunks );
-
- # $base_directories now contains the directories the resulting relative
- # path must ascend out of before it can descend to $path_directory. So,
- # replace all names with $parentDir
-
- #FA Need to replace between backslashes...
- $base_directories =~ s|[^\\]+|..|g ;
-
- # Glue the two together, using a separator if necessary, and preventing an
- # empty result.
-
- #FA Must check that new directories are not empty.
- if ( $path_directories ne '' && $base_directories ne '' ) {
- $path_directories = "$base_directories\\$path_directories" ;
- } else {
- $path_directories = "$base_directories$path_directories" ;
- }
-
- # It makes no sense to add a relative path to a UNC volume
- $path_volume = '' unless $path_volume =~ m{^[A-Z]:}is ;
-
- return $self->canonpath(
- $self->catpath($path_volume, $path_directories, $path_file )
- ) ;
-}
-
-=item rel2abs()
-
-Converts a relative path to an absolute path.
-
- $abs_path = File::Spec->rel2abs( $destination ) ;
- $abs_path = File::Spec->rel2abs( $destination, $base ) ;
-
-If $base is not present or '', then L<cwd()|Cwd> is used. If $base is relative,
-then it is converted to absolute form using L</rel2abs()>. This means that it
-is taken to be relative to L<cwd()|Cwd>.
-
-Assumes that both paths are on the $base volume, and ignores the
-$destination volume.
-
-On systems that have a grammar that indicates filenames, this ignores the
-$base filename as well. Otherwise all path components are assumed to be
-directories.
-
-If $path is absolute, it is cleaned up and returned using L</canonpath()>.
-
-Based on code written by Shigio Yamaguchi.
-
-No checks against the filesystem are made.
-
-=cut
-
-sub rel2abs($;$;) {
- my ($self,$path,$base ) = @_;
-
- if ( ! $self->file_name_is_absolute( $path ) ) {
-
- if ( !defined( $base ) || $base eq '' ) {
- $base = cwd() ;
- }
- elsif ( ! $self->file_name_is_absolute( $base ) ) {
- $base = $self->rel2abs( $base ) ;
- }
- else {
- $base = $self->canonpath( $base ) ;
- }
-
- my ( undef, $path_directories, $path_file ) =
- $self->splitpath( $path, 1 ) ;
-
- my ( $base_volume, $base_directories, undef ) =
- $self->splitpath( $base, 1 ) ;
-
- $path = $self->catpath(
- $base_volume,
- $self->catdir( $base_directories, $path_directories ),
- $path_file
- ) ;
- }
-
- return $self->canonpath( $path ) ;
-}
-
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
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