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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:

       •
               $ ./Configure

       •   Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of the questions are usually suffi-cient. sufficient.
           cient.

           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.

       •
               $ make miniperl

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

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

       •
               $ make

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

AUTHOR
       Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>



perl v5.8.9                                      2007-11-17                                    PERLRISCOS(1)