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.
ixemul-46.0-bin.lha ixemul-46.0-env-bin.lha pdksh-4.9-bin.lha ADE-misc-bin.lha
Note that there might be newer versions available by the time you read this.
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:
Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and extract the binary distribution:
lha -mraxe x perl-5.003-bin.lha
or
tar xvzpf perl-5.003-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 files
Users 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 docs
can be constructed using pod2latex.
Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS.
You need to have the latest ADE (Amiga Developers Environment) from ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current. Also, you need a lot of free memory, probably at least 8MB.
You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons and extract it with:
tar xvzpf perl-5.004-src.tgz
or get the official source from CPAN:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0
Extract it like this
tar xvzpf perl5.004.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.gnu --prefix=/ade
Now
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
perl(1).
If rather than formatting bugs, you encounter substantive content errors in these documents, such as mistakes in the explanations or code, please use the perlbug utility included with the Perl distribution.