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- If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
- see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
- specifically designed to be readable as is.
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- perlce - Perl for WinCE
-
- =head1 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.
-
- =head1 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 constructed
- binaries: entire distribution could be large for WinCE ideology, but
- you may strip it at your wish and use only required parts.
-
- =head2 Tools & SDK
-
- For compiling, you need following:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools
-
- =item * Microsoft Visual C++
-
- =item * Rainer Keuchel's celib-sources
-
- =item * Rainer Keuchel's console-sources
-
- =back
-
- Needed source files can be downloaded via:
- www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/dirlist.html
-
- =head2 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
- subdirectory. 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 makefile.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:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * go to ./wince subdirectory
-
- =item * edit file compile.bat
-
- =item * run
- compile.bat
-
- =item * run
- compile.bat dist
-
- =back
-
- 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 independent
- 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 Config.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 command 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.
-
- =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- The port for Win32 was used as a reference.
-
- =head1 AUTHORS
-
- Rainer Keuchel (keuchel@netwave.de)
- Vadim Konovalov (vkonovalov@spb.lucent.com)
-
-