perlce

PERLCE(1)              Perl Programmers Reference Guide              PERLCE(1)



NAME
       perlce - Perl for WinCE

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.

BUILD
       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:

         http://perlce.sourceforge.net

       There should also be pre-built binaries there.

       Don't be confused by large size of downloaded distribution or con-
       structed binaries: entire distribution could be large for WinCE ideol-
       ogy, but you may strip it at your wish and use only required parts.

       Tools & SDK

       For compiling, you need following:

       * Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools
       * Microsoft Visual C++
       * Rainer Keuchel's celib-sources
       * Rainer Keuchel's console-sources

       Needed source files can be downloaded via:
       www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/dirlist.html

       Make

       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.

       On the bright side, you do not need to edit any files from ./win32 sub-
       directory. 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 nmake -f make-
       file.ce with appropriate parameters and it accepts extra parameters and
       forwards them to "nmake" command as additional arguments. You should
       pass target this way.

       To prepare distribution you need to do following:

       * go to ./wince subdirectory
       * edit file compile.bat
       * run compile.bat
       * run compile.bat dist

       makefile.ce has 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
       to distinguish different builds at the same time. This option could be
       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".

         compile.bat
         compile.bat dist
         compile.bat CROSS_NAME=mips-wce300-thr "USE_ITHREADS=define" "USE_IMP_SYS=define" "USE_MULTI=define"
         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 indepen-
       dent distributions: "wince-mips-pocket-wce300" and "mips-wce300-thr".

       Target 'dist' prepares distribution file set. Target 'zipdist' performs
       same as 'dist' but additionally compresses distribution files into zip
       archive.

       NOTE: during a build there could be created a number (or one) of Con-
       fig.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.
       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 When building an extension for cross-compilation your com-
       mand line should look like

         ..\miniperl.exe -I..\lib -MCross=mips-wce300-thr Makefile.PL

       or just

         ..\miniperl.exe -I..\lib -MCross Makefile.PL

       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.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       The port for Win32 was used as a reference.

AUTHORS
       Rainer Keuchel (keuchel@netwave.de) Vadim Konovalov (vkono-
       valov@spb.lucent.com)



perl v5.8.6                       2004-11-05                         PERLCE(1)