1NAME
2 PerlCE - perl for Windows CE
3
4DESCRIPTION
5 PerlCE is a simple port of perl to Windows CE. The program
6 is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also
7 works on non-hpc devices.
8
9 The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt,
10 stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your
11 console has only a liminted number of cols.
12
13 When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the
14 console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with
15 status 0 in your program to see any output.
16
17 stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and
18 /perl-stderr.txt.
19
20LIMITATIONS
21 No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc.
22
23ENVIRONMENT
24 All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as
25 strings. They are read at process startup.
26
27 PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list).
28 PATH - Semi-list for executables.
29 TMP - Tempdir.
30 UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files,
31 i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services.
32 ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console.
33 HOME - Home directory.
34 CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font.
35
36 You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor
37 or via the PerlIDE.
38
39REGISTRY
40 To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have
41 to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat).
42 cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with
43 ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices.
44 You have to create the registry entries by hand using a
45 registry editor.
46
47FILES
48 $(UNIXROOTPATH)/dev/null - nul simulation, needed for perl -V
49 $(UNIXROOTPATH)/etc/services - services file
50
51 /perl-stdin.txt
52 /perl-stdout.txt
53 /perl-stderr.txt
54
55PERLFILES
56 Only a limited set of perl files is provided in the
57 distribution archiv. You have to copy the original PERL5LIB
58 files from a perl for win32 installation and put the
59 distributed files into the right directories.
60
61 The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do
62 some socket stuff:
63
64 ./auto
65 ./auto/DynaLoader
66 ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix
67 ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al
68 ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al
69 ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al
70 ./auto/IO
71 ./auto/IO/IO.bs
72 ./auto/IO/IO.dll
73 ./auto/Socket
74 ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs
75 ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll
76 ./Carp
77 ./Carp/Heavy.pm
78 ./Carp.pm
79 ./Config.pm
80 ./DynaLoader.pm
81 ./Exporter
82 ./Exporter/Heavy.pm
83 ./Exporter.pm
84 ./IO
85 ./IO/File.pm
86 ./IO/Handle.pm
87 ./IO/Socket.pm
88 ./IO.pm
89 ./SelectSaver.pm
90 ./Socket.pm
91 ./strict.pm
92 ./Symbol.pm
93 ./warnings
94 ./warnings/register.pm
95 ./warnings.pm
96 ./XSLoader.pm
97
98XS
99 The following Win32-Methods are built-in:
100
101 newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file);
102 newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file);
103 newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file);
104 newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file);
105 newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file);
106 newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file);
107 newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file);
108 newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file);
109 newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file);
110 newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file);
111 newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file);
112 newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file);
113 newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file);
114
115DLLS
116 In the newest version, my celib.dll is needed. Some XS dlls
117 might be needed. Currently, Socket and IO are provided.
118
119BUGS
120 Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if
121 they use stdio (normal perl file handles).
122
123 If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your
124 device, send mail to the address below. Please report
125 the details of your device (processor, ceversion,
126 devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded
127 files.
128
129 I currently have only a Compaq/MIPS HPC, a Jornada/SH3 HPC and
130 a Jornada/ARM HPC, so I can only test on these devices and
131 under the Emulators.
132
133INSTALLATION
134 This is only a suggestion...
135
136 * Unpack the tar archive on your desktop.
137 * Create directories /bin, /lib/perl5, /home, /dev and /etc,
138 possibly on a CF card with the path to the card
139 prepended (i.e. /memcard/bin etc).
140 * Copy perl.exe, perl56.dll and celib.dll from your desktop to
141 /bin. The dlls can also be copied to your /windows
142 directory, but if you use a CF card, you might want to store
143 them there.
144 * Copy the other DLLs to the corresponding auto directory.
145 * Copy any needed perl module-files to /lib/perl5.
146 * Create the registry entries.
147 * If you need tcp service-name resolution, create
148 the file "services" in /etc and put int the entries you need.
149
150 * Under WINCE200, all dlls must be copied to the windows
151 directory.
152
153MISC
154 If you think a certain XS module should be ported, send
155 me mail and explain why.
156
157 If you write useful scripts for perlce, please send me
158 a copy.
159
160TERMINAL
161 There are simple terminal control sequences now. See the
162 readme file that comes with the console program.
163
164AUTHOR
165 Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de> 2001
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