=head1 SYNOPSIS
-NOTE: No one has reported building Perl on the Amiga in a long
-time. The following information is highly unlikely to be correct.
-If you would like to help the Amiga port to stay current, see:
+NOTE: The following information is highly unlikely to be correct.
+A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Aminet site:
http://us.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
-for Amiga resources and information.
-
One can read this document in the following formats:
man perlamiga
You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from
-ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current or a mirror:
+the Aminet archives (http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/):
-ixemul-46.0-bin.lha
-ixemul-46.0-env-bin.lha
-pdksh-4.9-bin.lha
-ADE-misc-bin.lha
+ixemul-bin.lha
+ixemul-env-bin.lha
+pdksh-bin.lha
Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read
this.
Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and
extract the binary distribution:
-lha -mraxe x perl-5.003-bin.lha
+lha -mraxe x perl-$VERSION-bin.lha
or
-tar xvzpf perl-5.003-bin.tgz
+tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-bin.tgz
(Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.)
=head2 Prerequisites
-You need to have the latest B<ADE> (Amiga Developers Environment)
-from ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current.
-Also, you need a lot of free memory, probably at least 8MB.
+You need to have the latest B<ixemul> (Unix emulation for Amiga)
+from Aminet.
=head2 Getting the perl source
You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons
and extract it with:
- tar xvzpf perl-5.004-src.tgz
+ tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-src.tgz
or get the official source from CPAN:
Extract it like this
- tar xvzpf perl5.004.tar.gz
+ tar xvzpf perl$VERSION.tar.gz
You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This
is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file