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NAME
       README.riscos - 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 <http://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 <http://gccsdk.riscos.info/>; and REXEN
       <http://www.cp15.org/programming/>;

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

       o


               $ ./Configure

       o   Select the riscos hint file. 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.

       o


               $ make miniperl

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

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

       o


               $ make

       o   This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.

AUTHOR
       Alex Waugh <alexATalexwaugh.com>



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                              PERLRISCOS(1)