to run on Win32, and it will facilitate remaining build process; all binaries
built after it are foreign and should not run locally.
-C<miniperl> is built using ../win32/Makefile; this is part of normal
+C<miniperl> is built using C<./win32/Makefile>; this is part of normal
build process invoked as dependency from wince/Makefile.ce
=item *
-After C<miniperl> is built, 'configpm' is invoked to create right Config.pm
+After C<miniperl> is built, C<configpm> is invoked to create right C<Config.pm>
in right place and its corresponding Cross.pm.
-Unlike Win32 build, miniperl will not have Config.pm of host within reach;
-it rather will use Config.pm from within cross-compilation directories.
+Unlike Win32 build, miniperl will not have C<Config.pm> of host within reach;
+it rather will use C<Config.pm> from within cross-compilation directories.
-File Cross.pm is dead simple: for given cross-architecture places in @INC
-a path where perl modules are, and right Config.pm in that place.
+File C<Cross.pm> is dead simple: for given cross-architecture places in @INC
+a path where perl modules are, and right C<Config.pm> in that place.
That said, C<miniperl -Ilib -MConfig -we 1> should report an error, because
-it can not find Config.pm. If it does not gives an error -- wrong Config.pm
+it can not find C<Config.pm>. If it does not gives an error -- wrong C<Config.pm>
is substituted, and resulting binaries will be a mess.
C<miniperl -MCross -MConfig -we 1> should run okay, and it will provide right
-Config.pm for further compilations.
+C<Config.pm> for further compilations.
=item *
During extensions build phase, a script C<./win32/buldext.pl> is invoked,
-which in turn steps in ./ext subdirectories and performs a build of
+which in turn steps in C<./ext> subdirectories and performs a build of
each extension in turn.
-All invokes of Makefile.PL are provided with C<-MCross> so to enable cross-
+All invokes of C<Makefile.PL> are provided with C<-MCross> so to enable cross-
compile.
=item *
=head3 Make
-Normally you only need to edit ./wince/compile.bat
+Normally you only need to edit C<./win32/ce-helpers/compile.bat>
to reflect your system and run it.
-File ./wince/compile.bat is actually a wrapper to call
-nmake -f makefile.ce with appropriate parameters and it accepts extra
-parameters and forwards them to "nmake" command as additional
+File C<./wince/compile.bat> is actually a wrapper to call
+C<nmake -f makefile.ce> with appropriate parameters and it accepts extra
+parameters and forwards them to C<nmake> command as additional
arguments. You should pass target this way.
To prepare distribution you need to do following:
=over 4
-=item * go to ./wince subdirectory
+=item * go to C<./win32> subdirectory
-=item * edit file compile.bat
+=item * edit file C<compile.bat>
=item * run
compile.bat
=back
-makefile.ce has CROSS_NAME macro, and it is used further to refer to
+C<Makefile.ce> has C<CROSS_NAME> macro, and it is used further to refer to
your cross-compilation scheme. You could assign a name to it, but this
is not necessary, because by default it is assigned after your machine
configuration name, such as "wince-sh3-hpc-wce211", and this is enough
handy for several different builds on same platform to perform, say,
threaded build. In a following example we assume that all required
environment variables are set properly for C cross-compiler (a special
-*.bat file could fit perfectly to this purpose) and your compile.bat
-has proper "MACHINE" parameter set, to, say, "wince-mips-pocket-wce300".
+*.bat file could fit perfectly to this purpose) and your C<compile.bat>
+has proper "MACHINE" parameter set, to, say, C<wince-mips-pocket-wce300>.
compile.bat
compile.bat dist
compile.bat CROSS_NAME=mips-wce300-thr "USE_ITHREADS=define" "USE_IMP_SYS=define" "USE_MULTI=define" dist
If all goes okay and no errors during a build, you'll get two independent
-distributions: "wince-mips-pocket-wce300" and "mips-wce300-thr".
+distributions: C<wince-mips-pocket-wce300> and C<mips-wce300-thr>.
-Target 'dist' prepares distribution file set. Target 'zipdist' performs
-same as 'dist' but additionally compresses distribution files into zip
+Target C<dist> prepares distribution file set. Target C<zipdist> performs
+same as C<dist> but additionally compresses distribution files into zip
archive.
-NOTE: during a build there could be created a number (or one) of Config.pm
-for cross-compilation ("foreign" Config.pm) and those are hidden inside
-../xlib/$(CROSS_NAME) with other auxilary files, but, and this is important to
-note, there should be *no* Config.pm for host miniperl.
+NOTE: during a build there could be created a number (or one) of C<Config.pm>
+for cross-compilation ("foreign" C<Config.pm>) and those are hidden inside
+C<../xlib/$(CROSS_NAME)> with other auxilary files, but, and this is important to
+note, there should be B<no> C<Config.pm> for host miniperl.
If you'll get an error that perl could not find Config.pm somewhere in building
process this means something went wrong. Most probably you forgot to
specify a cross-compilation when invoking miniperl.exe to Makefile.PL
to refer a cross-compilation that was created last time.
All questions related to building for WinCE devices could be asked in
-perlce-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.
+L<perlce-user@lists.sourceforge.net> mailing list.
=head1 Using Perl on WinCE
PerlCE is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also
works on non-hpc devices.
-The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt,
-stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your
+The simple stdio implementation creates the files C<stdin.txt>,
+C<stdout.txt> and C<stderr.txt>, so you might examine them if your
console has only a liminted number of cols.
When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the
console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with
status 0 in your program to see any output.
-stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and
-/perl-stderr.txt.
+stdout/stderr now go into the files C</perl-stdout.txt> and
+C</perl-stderr.txt.>
+
+PerlIDE is handy to deal with perlce.
=head2 LIMITATIONS
All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as
strings. They are read at process startup.
- PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list).
- PATH - Semi-list for executables.
- TMP - Tempdir.
- UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files,
- i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services.
- ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console.
- HOME - Home directory.
- CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font.
+=over
+
+=item PERL5LIB
+
+Usual perl lib path (semi-list).
+
+=item PATH
+
+Semi-list for executables.
+
+=item TMP
+
+- Tempdir.
+
+=item UNIXROOTPATH
+
+- Root for accessing some special files, i.e. C</dev/null>, C</etc/services>.
+
+=item ROWS/COLS
+
+- Rows/cols for console.
+
+=item HOME
+
+- Home directory.
+
+=item CONSOLEFONTSIZE
+
+- Size for console font.
+
+=back
You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor
or via the PerlIDE.
=head2 REGISTRY
To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have
-to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat).
+to make the according entries in HKCR (see C<ce-helpers/wince-reg.bat>).
cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with
ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices.
You have to create the registry entries by hand using a
registry editor.
-=head2 PERLFILES
-
-The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do
-some socket stuff:
-
- ./auto
- ./auto/DynaLoader
- ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix
- ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al
- ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al
- ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al
- ./auto/IO
- ./auto/IO/IO.bs
- ./auto/IO/IO.dll
- ./auto/Socket
- ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs
- ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll
- ./Carp
- ./Carp/Heavy.pm
- ./Carp.pm
- ./Config.pm
- ./DynaLoader.pm
- ./Exporter
- ./Exporter/Heavy.pm
- ./Exporter.pm
- ./IO
- ./IO/File.pm
- ./IO/Handle.pm
- ./IO/Socket.pm
- ./IO.pm
- ./SelectSaver.pm
- ./Socket.pm
- ./strict.pm
- ./Symbol.pm
- ./warnings
- ./warnings/register.pm
- ./warnings.pm
- ./XSLoader.pm
-
=head2 XS
The following Win32-Methods are built-in:
The port for Win32 was used as a reference.
+=head1 History of WinCE port
+
+=over
+
+=item 5.6.0
+
+Initial port of perl to WinCE. It was performed in separate directory
+named C<wince>. This port was based on contents of C<./win32> directory.
+C<miniperl> was not built, user must have HOST perl and properly edit
+C<makefile.ce> to reflect this.
+
+=item 5.8.0
+
+wince port was kept in the same C<./wince> directory, and C<wince/Makefile.ce>
+was used to invoke native compiler to create HOST miniperl, which then
+facilitates cross-compiling process.
+Extension building support was added.
+
+=item 5.9.4
+
+Two directories C<./win32> and C<./wince> were merged, so perlce build
+process comes in C<./win32> directory.
+
+=over
+
+
=head1 AUTHORS
=over
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