perlce - Perl for WinCE
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
+=head1 Building Perl for WinCE
+
+=head2 DESCRIPTION
This file gives the instructions for building Perl5.8 and above for
WinCE. Please read and understand the terms under which this
software is distributed.
-=head1 BUILD
+=head2 General explanations on cross-compiling WinCE
-This section describes the steps to be performed to build PerlCE.
-You may find additional and newer information about building perl
-for WinCE using following URL:
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<miniperl> is built. This is a single executable (without DLL), intended
+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
+build process invoked as dependency from wince/Makefile.ce
+
+=item *
+
+After C<miniperl> is built, 'configpm' is invoked to create right Config.pm
+in right place and its corresponding Cross.pm.
- http://perlce.sourceforge.net
+Unlike Win32 build, miniperl will not have Config.pm of host within reach;
+it rather will use Config.pm from within cross-compilation directories.
-There should also be pre-built binaries there.
+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.
-Don't be confused by large size of downloaded distribution or constructed
-binaries: entire distribution could be large for WinCE ideology, but
-you may strip it at your wish and use only required parts.
+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
+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.
+
+=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
+each extension in turn.
+
+All invokes of Makefile.PL are provided with C<-MCross> so to enable cross-
+compile.
+
+=item *
+
+=back
-=head2 Tools & SDK
+=head2 BUILD
+
+This section describes the steps to be performed to build PerlCE.
+You may find additional information about building perl for WinCE
+at L<http://perlce.sourceforge.net> and some pre-built binaries.
+
+=head3 Tools & SDK
For compiling, you need following:
=back
-Needed source files can be downloaded via:
-www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/dirlist.html
-
-=head2 Make
+Needed source files can be downloaded at
+L<http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/dirlist.html>
-Please pay attention that starting from 5.8.0 miniperl *is* built
-and it facilitates in further building process. This means that
-in addition to compiler installation for mobile device you also need
-to have Microsoft Visual C++ installed as well.
+=head3 Make
-On the bright side, you do not need to edit any files from ./win32
-subdirectory. Normally you only need to edit ./wince/compile.bat
+Normally you only need to edit ./wince/compile.bat
to reflect your system and run it.
File ./wince/compile.bat is actually a wrapper to call
to refer a cross-compilation that was created last time.
-
-If you decided to build with fcrypt.c file, please refer to README.win32
-file, as long as all legal considerations and steps to do are exactly same
-in this case.
-
All questions related to building for WinCE devices could be asked in
perlce-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.
+=head1 Using Perl on WinCE
+
+=head2 DESCRIPTION
+
+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
+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.
+
+=head2 LIMITATIONS
+
+No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc.
+
+=head2 ENVIRONMENT
+
+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.
+
+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).
+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:
+
+ newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file);
+ newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file);
+ newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file);
+ newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file);
+ newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file);
+ newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file);
+ newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file);
+ newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file);
+ newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file);
+ newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file);
+ newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file);
+ newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file);
+ newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file);
+
+=head2 BUGS
+
+Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if
+they use stdio (normal perl file handles).
+
+If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your
+device, send mail to the address below. Please report
+the details of your device (processor, ceversion,
+devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded
+files.
+
+=head2 INSTALLATION
+
+Currently installation instructions are at L<http://perlce.sourceforge.net/>.
+
+After installation & testing processes will stabilize, information will
+be more precise.
+
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The port for Win32 was used as a reference.
=head1 AUTHORS
-Rainer Keuchel (keuchel@netwave.de)
-Vadim Konovalov (vkonovalov@spb.lucent.com)
+=over
+
+=item Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de>
+
+provided initial port of Perl, which appears to be most essential work, as
+it was a breakthrough on having Perl ported at all.
+Many thanks and obligations to Rainer!
+
+=item Vadim Konovalov
+
+made further support of WinCE port.
+
+=back
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