perlriscos

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#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:

```
$ ./Configure
```
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.
```
$ 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>

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