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It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is +specially designed to be readable as is. + +=head1 NAME + +perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +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 I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>. + +=cut + +Contents + + perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS + + NAME + SYNOPSIS + DESCRIPTION + - Prerequisites + - Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS + INSTALLATION + Accessing documentation + - Manpages + - HTML + - GNU info files + - LaTeX docs + BUILD + - Prerequisites + - Getting the perl source + - Application of the patches + - Making + - Testing + - Installing the built perl + AUTHOR + SEE ALSO + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +=head2 Prerequisites + +=over 6 + +=item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library> + +You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is +B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the following archives from +ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current or a mirror: + +ixemul-45.1-bin.lha +ixemul-45.1-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 B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>). + +=item B<Version of Amiga OS> + +You need at the very least AmigaOS version 2.0. Recommended is version 3.1. + +=back + +=head2 Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS + +Start your Perl program F<foo> with arguments C<arg1 arg2 arg3> the +same way as on any other platform, by + + perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3 + +If you want to specify perl options C<-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 B<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 F</usr/bin/perl> is not +necessary, F<perl> would be enough, but having full path would make it +easier to use your script under *nix.) + +=head1 INSTALLATION + +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. + +=head1 Accessing documentation + +=head2 Manpages + +If you have C<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 (F<.>) is used as a package separator for documentation +for packages, and as usual, sometimes you need to give the section - C<3> +above - to avoid shadowing by the I<less(1) manpage>. + + +=head2 B<HTML> + +If you have some WWW browser available, you can build B<HTML> docs. +Cd to directory with F<.pod> files, and do like this + + cd /ade/lib/perl5/pod + pod2html + +After this you can direct your browser the file F<perl.html> in this +directory, and go ahead with reading docs. + +Alternatively you may be able to get these docs prebuilt from C<CPAN>. + +=head2 B<GNU> C<info> files + +Users of C<Emacs> would appreciate it very much, especially with +C<CPerl> mode loaded. You need to get latest C<pod2info> from C<CPAN>, +or, alternately, prebuilt info pages. + +=head2 C<LaTeX> docs + +can be constructed using C<pod2latex>. + +=head1 BUILD + +Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS. + +=head2 Prerequisites + +You need to have the latest B<ADE> (Amiga Developers Environment) +from ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current. +Also, you need a lot of free memory, probably at least 8MB. + +=head2 Getting the perl source + +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 F<Configure>. This +is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file +F<configure>, but it causes no harm.) + +=head2 Making + + sh configure.gnu --prefix=/ade + +Now + + make + +=head2 Testing + +Now run + + make test + +Some tests will fail. Here is which, and why: + +=over 8 + +=item F<io/fs.t>, F<op/stat.t>, F<lib/*dbm.t>, F<lib/db-*.t> + +Check I<file system> operations. Failures result from the inability to +emulate some Unixisms with the standard Amiga filesystem. + +=item F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>, + F<lib/open3.t>, F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t> + +These tests will be skipped because they use the fork() function, which is not +supported under AmigaOS. + +=back + +=head2 Installing the built perl + +Run + + make install + +=head1 AUTHOR + +Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +perl(1). + +=cut |