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Enhance formatting, minor clarifications etc https://perldoc.perl.org/perlriscos
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is
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complicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version of
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perl available from L<http://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
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complicated by the need to cross-compile. There is a binary version of
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perl available from L<https://www.cp15.org/perl/> which you may wish to
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use instead of trying to compile it yourself.
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=head1 BUILD
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You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compiler
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L<http://gccsdk.riscos.info/> and REXEN
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L<http://www.cp15.org/programming/>
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You need an installed and working
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L<GCCSDK|https://www.riscos.info/downloads/gccsdk/latest/> cross-compiler
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and L<REXEN|https://www.cp15.org/programming/>.
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Firstly, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host
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system.
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Then, in the source to be cross compiled:
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First, copy the source and build a native copy of perl for your host system.
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Then, in the source to be cross-compiled:
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=item 2.
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Select the riscos hint file. The default answers for the rest of the
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questions are usually sufficient.
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Select the RISC OS hint file (F<hints/riscos.sh>).
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The default answers for the rest of the questions are usually sufficient.
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Note that, if you wish to run Configure non-interactively (see the INSTALL
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document for details), to have it select the correct hint file, you'll
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need to provide the argument -Dhintfile=riscos on the Configure
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command-line.
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Note that, if you wish to run C<Configure> non-interactively
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(see the F<INSTALL> document for details), to have it select the correct hint
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file, you'll need to provide the argument C<-Dhintfile=riscos> on the
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C<Configure> command-line.
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$ make miniperl
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This should build miniperl and then fail when it tries to run it.
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This should build C<miniperl> and then fail when it tries to run it.
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=item 5.
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Copy the miniperl executable from the native build done earlier to
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replace the cross compiled miniperl.
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Copy the F<miniperl> executable from the native build done earlier to
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replace the cross-compiled F<miniperl>.
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=item 6.
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$ make
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This will use miniperl to complete the rest of the build.
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This will use C<miniperl> to complete the rest of the build.
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=back
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