Perl is available for most operating systems, including virtually
all Unix-like platforms.
-As of May 1999, the following platforms are able to build Perl
-from the standard source code distribution available at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
-
- AIX Linux SCO ODT/OSR
- A/UX MachTen Solaris
- BeOS MPE/iX SunOS
- BSD/OS NetBSD SVR4
- DG/UX NextSTEP Tru64 UNIX 3)
- DomainOS OpenBSD Ultrix
- DOS DJGPP 1) OpenSTEP UNICOS
- DYNIX/ptx OS/2 VMS
- FreeBSD OS390 2) VOS
- HP-UX PowerMAX Windows 3.1 1)
- Hurd QNX Windows 95 1) 4)
- IRIX Windows 98 1) 4)
- Windows NT 1) 4)
+As of early March 2000 (the Perl release 5.6.0), the following
+platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
+distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
+
+ AIX
+ DOS DJGPP 1)
+ FreeBSD
+ HP-UX
+ IRIX
+ Linux
+ MachTen
+ MPE/iX
+ NetBSD
+ OpenBSD
+ OS/2
+ Rhapsody/Darwin 2)
+ Solaris
+ Tru64 UNIX 3)
+ UNICOS
+ UNICOS/mk
+ VMS
+ VOS
+ Windows 3.1 1)
+ Windows 95 1) 4)
+ Windows 98 1) 4)
+ Windows NT 1) 4)
1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
- 2) formerly known as MVS
- 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
+ 2) NEW in 5.6.0: the BSD/NeXT-based UNIX of Mac OS X
+ 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
-The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source,
-but we haven't been able to verify their status for the current release,
-either because the hardware/software platforms are rare or
-because we don't have an active champion on these platforms--or both.
-
- 3b1 FPS Plan 9
- AmigaOS GENIX PowerUX
- ConvexOS Greenhills RISC/os
- CX/UX ISC Stellar
- DC/OSx MachTen 68k SVR2
- DDE SMES MiNT TI1500
- DOS EMX MPC TitanOS
- Dynix NEWS-OS UNICOS/mk
- EP/IX Opus Unisys Dynix
- ESIX Unixware
-
-Support for the following platforms is planned for the next major
-Perl release.
-
- BS2000
+The following platforms worked for the previous major release,
+5.005_04 being the latest (as of March 2000) maintenance release, but
+we didn't manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 release of Perl.
+There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0.
+
+ A/UX
+ BeOS
+ BSD/OS
+ DG/UX
+ DYNIX/ptx
+ DomainOS
+ Hurd
+ NextSTEP
+ OpenSTEP
+ PowerMAX
+ QNX
+ SCO ODT/OSR
+ SunOS
+ SVR4
+ Ultrix
+
+The following platform worked for the previous major release, 5.005_04
+being the latest (as of early March 2000) maintenance release of that,
+but unfortunately the Unicode changes in 5.6.0 broke the port. This
+will be fixed in a future Perl release.
+
+ OS390 1)
+
+ 1) Previously known as MVS, or OpenEdition MVS.
+
+Strongly related to the OS390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based
+mainframe platforms are the
+
+ BS2000
+ VM/ESA
+
+platforms. They are related by not working in 5.6.0, unfortunately.
+Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org for more details.
+
+MacOS (Classic, pre-X) is kind of 5.6.0-ready: building from the
+source does work with the 5.6.0, but you need more than just the Perl
+5.6 source code. Contact the mailing list macperl-porters@macperl.org
+for more more information.
+
+The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in
+the past, but we haven't been able to verify their status for the
+current release, either because the hardware/software platforms are
+rare or because we don't have an active champion on these
+platforms--or both.
+
+ 3b1
+ AmigaOS
+ ConvexOS
+ CX/UX
+ DC/OSx
+ DDE SMES
+ DOS EMX
+ Dynix
+ EP/IX
+ ESIX
+ FPS
+ GENIX
+ Greenhills
+ ISC
+ MachTen 68k
+ MiNT
+ MPC
+ NEWS-OS
+ Opus
+ Plan 9
+ PowerUX
+ RISC/os
+ Stellar
+ SVR2
+ TI1500
+ TitanOS
+ Unisys Dynix
+ Unixware
+
+Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release.
+
Netware
- Rhapsody
- VM/ESA
The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html.
Perl release
AS/400 5.003
- MacOS 5.004
Netware 5.003_07
Tandem Guardian 5.004
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