perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS

- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- BUILD
- AUTHOR

# NAME

perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS

# DESCRIPTION

This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is complicated by the need to cross-compile. There is a binary version of perl available from https://www.cp15.org/perl/ which you may wish to use instead of trying to compile it yourself.

# BUILD

You need an installed and working GCCSDK cross-compiler and REXEN.

First, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host system. Then, in the source to be cross-compiled:

1.     $ ./Configure

2. Select the RISC OS hint file (hints/riscos.sh). The default answers for the rest of the questions are usually sufficient.

   Note that, if you wish to run `Configure` non-interactively (see the INSTALL document for details), to have it select the correct hint file, you'll need to provide the argument `-Dhintfile=riscos` on the `Configure` command-line.

3.     $ make miniperl

4. This should build `miniperl` and then fail when it tries to run it.

5. Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to replace the cross-compiled miniperl.

6.     $ make

7. This will use `miniperl` to complete the rest of the build.

# AUTHOR

Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>

perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS