PERLCE(1)        Perl Programmers Reference Guide       PERLCE(1)



NAME
       perlce - Perl for WinCE

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.

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.

       Tools & SDK

       For compiling, you need following:

       * Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools
       * Microsoft Visual C++
       * Rainer Keuchel's celib-sources
       * Rainer Keuchel's console-sources

       Needed source files can be downloaded via:
       www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/dirlist.html

       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" com-
       mand as additional arguments. You should pass target this
       way.

       To prepare distribution you need to do following:

       * go to ./wince subdirectory
       * edit file compile.bat
       * run compile.bat
       * run compile.bat dist

       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 com-
       pile.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 com-
       presses distribution files into zip archive.

       NOTE: during a build there could be created a number (or
       one) of Config.pm for cross-compilation ("foreign" Con-
       fig.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-compi-
       lation 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.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       The port for Win32 was used as a reference.

AUTHORS
       Rainer Keuchel (keuchel@netwave.de) Vadim Konovalov
       (vkonovalov@spb.lucent.com)



perl v5.8.8                 2006-01-07                  PERLCE(1)