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Manpages PERLAMIGASection: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)Updated: 2005-03-28 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEperlamiga - Perl under Amiga OSSYNOPSISOne can read this document in the following formats:
man perlamiga multiview perlamiga.guideto list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may be read as is: either as README.amiga, or pod/perlamiga.pod. A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets section of the Aminet:
http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dirs/dev_gg.html DESCRIPTIONPrerequisites
Starting Perl programs under AmigaOSStart your Perl program foo with arguments "arg1 arg2 arg3" the same way as on any other platform, by
perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3If 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 arg3Alternately, 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.) Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOSPerl under AmigaOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably:
INSTALLATIONChange to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and extract the binary distribution:lha -mraxe x perl-$VERSION-bin.lha or tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-bin.tgz (Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.) For installation of the Unix emulation, read the appropriate docs. Accessing documentationManpagesIf you have "man" installed on your system, and you installed perl manpages, use something like this:
man perlfunc man less man ExtUtils.MakeMakerto access documentation for different components of Perl. Start with
man perlNote: 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. HTMLIf 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 pod2htmlAfter 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". GNU info filesUsers 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 docscan be constructed using "pod2latex".BUILDHere we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS.PrerequisitesYou need to have the latest ixemul (Unix emulation for Amiga) from Aminet.Getting the perl sourceYou can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons and extract it with:
tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-src.tgzor get the official source from CPAN:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0Extract it like this
tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION.tar.gzYou 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.) Making
TestingNow run
make testSome 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 Installing the built perlRun
make install AUTHORSNorbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de Jan-Erik Karlsson, trg@privat.utfors.seSEE ALSOperl(1).
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