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perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
One can read this document in the following formats:
man perlamiga multiview perlamiga.guide
to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may be read as is: either as README.amiga, or pod/perlamiga.pod.
A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets section of the Aminet:
http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html
ixemul-bin ixemul-env-bin pdksh-bin
Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other packages of ADE (the Amiga Developers Environment).
Start your Perl program foo with arguments arg1 arg2 arg3
the
same way as on any other platform, by
perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3
If you want to specify perl options -my_opts
to the perl itself (as
opposed to to your program), use
perl -my_opts foo arg1 arg2 arg3
Alternately, you can try to get a replacement for the system's Execute command that honors the #!/usr/bin/perl syntax in scripts and set the s-Bit of your scripts. Then you can invoke your scripts like under UNIX with
foo arg1 arg2 arg3
(Note that having *nixish full path to perl /usr/bin/perl is not necessary, perl would be enough, but having full path would make it easier to use your script under *nix.)
Perl under AmigaOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably:
fork()
umask()
works, but the correct permissions are only set when the file is
finally close()d
Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and extract the binary distribution:
lha -mraxe x perl-$VERSION-bin.lha
or
tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-bin.tgz
(Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.)
For installation of the Unix emulation, read the appropriate docs.
If you have man
installed on your system, and you installed perl
manpages, use something like this:
man perlfunc man less man ExtUtils.MakeMaker
to access documentation for different components of Perl. Start with
man perl
Note: You have to modify your man.conf file to search for manpages in the /ade/lib/perl5/man/man3 directory, or the man pages for the perl library will not be found.
Note that dot (.) is used as a package separator for documentation
for packages, and as usual, sometimes you need to give the section - 3
above - to avoid shadowing by the less(1) manpage.
If you have some WWW browser available, you can build HTML docs. Cd to directory with .pod files, and do like this
cd /ade/lib/perl5/pod pod2html
After this you can direct your browser the file perl.html in this directory, and go ahead with reading docs.
Alternatively you may be able to get these docs prebuilt from CPAN
.
info
filesUsers of Emacs
would appreciate it very much, especially with
CPerl
mode loaded. You need to get latest pod2info
from CPAN
,
or, alternately, prebuilt info pages.
LaTeX
docscan be constructed using pod2latex
.
Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS.
You need to have the latest ixemul (Unix emulation for Amiga) from Aminet.
You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons and extract it with:
tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-src.tgz
or get the official source from CPAN:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0
Extract it like this
tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION.tar.gz
You will see a message about errors while extracting Configure. This is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file configure, but it causes no harm.)
sh Configure -Dprefix=/ade -Dloclibpth=/ade/lib
In the file 'makedepend' there are three spots like this `$cat ...`: a for loop near line 75, an egrep near line 161, and a for loop near line 175. In all those spots using an editor change the $cat to /bin/cat.
When the make depend has ended load the gnumakefile into an editor and go to the end of the file.
Move upwards in the file until you reach av.o: EXTERN.h and delete all lines down to # WARNING: Put....
Load the gnumakefile into an editor.
Go to the end moveup until you reach hash.o: EXTERN.h and delete all lines dowonwards until you reach a line saying
# WARNING: Put nothing....
make
Now run
make test
Some tests will be skipped because they need the fork()
function:
io/pipe.t, op/fork.t, lib/filehand.t, lib/open2.t, lib/open3.t, lib/io_pipe.t, lib/io_sock.t
Run
make install
Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de Jan-Erik Karlsson, trg@privat.utfors.se
perl(1).
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