perldos
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Name
perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
Synopsis
These are instructions for building Perl under DOS (or w??),
using DJGPP v2.03 or later. Under w95 long filenames are
supported.
Description
Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLDOS(1)
NAME
perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
SYNOPSIS
These are instructions for building Perl under DOS (or w??),
using DJGPP v2.03 or later. Under w95 long filenames are
supported.
DESCRIPTION
Before you start, you should glance through the README file
found in the top-level directory where the Perl distribution
was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms
under which this software is being distributed.
This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules
that is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you
should be able to build and install most extensions found in
the CPAN sites.
Detailed instructions on how to build and install perl
extension modules, including XS-type modules, is included.
See 'BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES'.
Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
DJGPP
DJGPP is a port of GNU C/C++ compiler and development
tools to 32-bit, protected-mode environment on Intel
32-bit CPUs running MS-DOS and compatible operating
systems, by DJ Delorie <[email protected]> and friends.
For more details (FAQ), check out the home of DJGPP at:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
If you have questions about DJGPP, try posting to the
DJGPP newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.djgpp, or use the email
gateway [email protected].
You can find the full DJGPP distribution on any of the
mirrors listed here:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html
You need the following files to build perl (or add new
modules):
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v2/djdev203.zip
v2gnu/bnu2112b.zip
v2gnu/gcc2953b.zip
v2gnu/bsh204b.zip
v2gnu/mak3791b.zip
v2gnu/fil40b.zip
v2gnu/sed3028b.zip
v2gnu/txt20b.zip
v2gnu/dif272b.zip
v2gnu/grep24b.zip
v2gnu/shl20jb.zip
v2gnu/gwk306b.zip
v2misc/csdpmi5b.zip
or possibly any newer version.
Pthreads
Thread support is not tested in this version of the
djgpp perl.
Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
Perl under DOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX
because of deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably:
o fork() and pipe()
o some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link
count and file dates
o in-place operation is a little bit broken with short
filenames
o sockets
Building Perl on DOS
o Unpack the source package perl5.8*.tar.gz with djtarx.
If you want to use long file names under w95 and also to
get Perl to pass all its tests, don't forget to use
set LFN=y
set FNCASE=y
before unpacking the archive.
o Create a "symlink" or copy your bash.exe to sh.exe in
your "($DJDIR)/bin" directory.
ln -s bash.exe sh.exe
[If you have the recommended version of bash for DJGPP,
this is already done for you.]
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And make the "SHELL" environment variable point to this
sh.exe:
set SHELL=c:/djgpp/bin/sh.exe (use full path name!)
You can do this in djgpp.env too. Add this line BEFORE
any section definition:
+SHELL=%DJDIR%/bin/sh.exe
o If you have split.exe and gsplit.exe in your path, then
rename split.exe to djsplit.exe, and gsplit.exe to
split.exe. Copy or link gecho.exe to echo.exe if you
don't have echo.exe. Copy or link gawk.exe to awk.exe
if you don't have awk.exe.
[If you have the recommended versions of djdev, shell
utilities and gawk, all these are already done for you,
and you will not need to do anything.]
o Chdir to the djgpp subdirectory of perl toplevel and
type the following commands:
set FNCASE=y
configure.bat
This will do some preprocessing then run the Configure
script for you. The Configure script is interactive,
but in most cases you just need to press ENTER. The
"set" command ensures that DJGPP preserves the letter
case of file names when reading directories. If you
already issued this set command when unpacking the
archive, and you are in the same DOS session as when you
unpacked the archive, you don't have to issue the set
command again. This command is necessary *before* you
start to (re)configure or (re)build perl in order to
ensure both that perl builds correctly and that building
XS-type modules can succeed. See the DJGPP info entry
for "_preserve_fncase" for more information:
info libc alphabetical _preserve_fncase
If the script says that your package is incomplete, and
asks whether to continue, just answer with Y (this can
only happen if you don't use long filenames or forget to
issue "set FNCASE=y" first).
When Configure asks about the extensions, I suggest IO
and Fcntl, and if you want database handling then
SDBM_File or GDBM_File (you need to install gdbm for
this one). If you want to use the POSIX extension (this
is the default), make sure that the stack size of your
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cc1.exe is at least 512kbyte (you can check this with:
"stubedit cc1.exe").
You can use the Configure script in non-interactive mode
too. When I built my perl.exe, I used something like
this:
configure.bat -des
You can find more info about Configure's command line
switches in the INSTALL file.
When the script ends, and you want to change some values
in the generated config.sh file, then run
sh Configure -S
after you made your modifications.
IMPORTANT: if you use this "-S" switch, be sure to
delete the CONFIG environment variable before running
the script:
set CONFIG=
o Now you can compile Perl. Type:
make
Testing Perl on DOS
Type:
make test
If you're lucky you should see "All tests successful". But
there can be a few failed subtests (less than 5 hopefully)
depending on some external conditions (e.g. some subtests
fail under linux/dosemu or plain dos with short filenames
only).
Installation of Perl on DOS
Type:
make install
This will copy the newly compiled perl and libraries into
your DJGPP directory structure. Perl.exe and the utilities
go into "($DJDIR)/bin", and the library goes under
"($DJDIR)/lib/perl5". The pod documentation goes under
"($DJDIR)/lib/perl5/pod".
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BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
For building and installing non-XS modules, all you need is
a working perl under DJGPP. Non-XS modules do not require
re-linking the perl binary, and so are simpler to build and
install.
XS-type modules do require re-linking the perl binary,
because part of an XS module is written in "C", and has to
be linked together with the perl binary to be executed.
This is required because perl under DJGPP is built with the
"static link" option, due to the lack of "dynamic linking"
in the DJGPP environment.
Because XS modules require re-linking of the perl binary,
you need both the perl binary distribution and the perl
source distribution to build an XS extension module. In
addition, you will have to have built your perl binary from
the source distribution so that all of the components of the
perl binary are available for the required link step.
Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
First, download the module package from CPAN (e.g., the
"Comma Separated Value" text package, Text-CSV-0.01.tar.gz).
Then expand the contents of the package into some location
on your disk. Most CPAN modules are built with an internal
directory structure, so it is usually safe to expand it in
the root of your DJGPP installation. Some people prefer to
locate source trees under /usr/src (i.e.,
"($DJDIR)/usr/src"), but you may put it wherever seems most
logical to you, *EXCEPT* under the same directory as your
perl source code. There are special rules that apply to
modules which live in the perl source tree that do not apply
to most of the modules in CPAN.
Unlike other DJGPP packages, which are normal "zip" files,
most CPAN module packages are "gzipped tarballs". Recent
versions of WinZip will safely unpack and expand them,
*UNLESS* they have zero-length files. It is a known WinZip
bug (as of v7.0) that it will not extract zero-length files.
From the command line, you can use the djtar utility
provided with DJGPP to unpack and expand these files. For
example:
C:\djgpp>djtarx -v Text-CSV-0.01.tar.gz
This will create the new directory "($DJDIR)/Text-CSV-0.01",
filling it with the source for this module.
Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
To build a non-XS module, you can use the standard module-
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building instructions distributed with perl modules.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
This is sufficient because non-XS modules install only ".pm"
files and (sometimes) pod and/or man documentation. No re-
linking of the perl binary is needed to build, install or
use non-XS modules.
Building XS Modules on DOS
To build an XS module, you must use the standard module-
building instructions distributed with perl modules *PLUS*
three extra instructions specific to the DJGPP "static link"
build environment.
set FNCASE=y
perl Makefile.PL
make
make perl
make test
make -f Makefile.aperl inst_perl MAP_TARGET=perl.exe
make install
The first extra instruction sets DJGPP's FNCASE environment
variable so that the new perl binary which you must build
for an XS-type module will build correctly. The second
extra instruction re-builds the perl binary in your module
directory before you run "make test", so that you are
testing with the new module code you built with "make". The
third extra instruction installs the perl binary from your
module directory into the standard DJGPP binary directory,
"($DJDIR)/bin", replacing your previous perl binary.
Note that the MAP_TARGET value *must* have the ".exe"
extension or you will not create a "perl.exe" to replace the
one in "($DJDIR)/bin".
When you are done, the XS-module install process will have
added information to your "perllocal" information telling
that the perl binary has been replaced, and what module was
installed. You can view this information at any time by
using the command:
perl -S perldoc perllocal
AUTHOR
Laszlo Molnar, [email protected]
[Installing/building perl]
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Peter J. Farley III [email protected] [Building/installing
modules]
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
perl(1).
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.
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