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 <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:

       1.
               $ ./Configure

       2.  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.

       3.
               $ make miniperl

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

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

       6.
               $ make

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

AUTHOR

       Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>