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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 under-stand understand
       stand 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 distribu-
       tion 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 parame-
       ters and it accepts extra parameters and forwards them to "nmake" command 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 environ-
       ment variables are set properly for C cross-compiler (a special *.bat file could fit perfectly to
       this purpose) and your compile.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 addition-
       ally compresses distribution files into zip archive.

       NOTE: during a build there could be created a number (or one) of Config.pm for cross-compilation
       ("foreign" Config.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-compilation when invoking miniperl.exe to Make-
       file.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.source-
       forge.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)