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NAME

6       README.riscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is
10       complicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version of
11       perl available from <http://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
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BUILD

15       You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compiler
16       <http://gccsdk.riscos.info/> and REXEN
17       <http://www.cp15.org/programming/>
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19       Firstly, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host
20       system.  Then, in the source to be cross compiled:
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27       ·   Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of
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30           Note that, if you wish to run Configure non-interactively (see the
31           INSTALL document for details), to have it select the correct hint
32           file, you'll need to provide the argument -Dhintfile=riscos on the
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40       ·   This should build miniperl and then fail when it tries to run it.
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42       ·   Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to
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50       ·   This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.
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AUTHOR

53       Alex Waugh <alex@alexwaugh.com>
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57perl v5.12.4                      2011-06-07                     PERLRISCOS(1)