| 1 | NAME
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| 2 | PerlCE - perl for Windows CE
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| 3 |
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| 4 | DESCRIPTION
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| 5 | PerlCE is a simple port of perl to Windows CE. The program
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| 6 | is currently linked with a simple console window, so it also
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| 7 | works on non-hpc devices.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | The simple stdio implementation creates the files stdin.txt,
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| 10 | stdout.txt and stderr.txt, so you might examine them if your
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| 11 | console has only a liminted number of cols.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | When exitcode is non-zero, a message box appears, otherwise the
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| 14 | console closes, so you might have to catch an exit with
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| 15 | status 0 in your program to see any output.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | stdout/stderr now go into the files /perl-stdout.txt and
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| 18 | /perl-stderr.txt.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | LIMITATIONS
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| 21 | No fork(), pipe(), popen() etc.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | ENVIRONMENT
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| 24 | All environment vars must be stored in HKLM\Environment as
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| 25 | strings. They are read at process startup.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | PERL5LIB - Usual perl lib path (semi-list).
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| 28 | PATH - Semi-list for executables.
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| 29 | TMP - Tempdir.
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| 30 | UNIXROOTPATH - Root for accessing some special files,
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| 31 | i.e. /dev/null, /etc/services.
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| 32 | ROWS/COLS - Rows/cols for console.
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| 33 | HOME - Home directory.
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| 34 | CONSOLEFONTSIZE - Size for console font.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | You can set these with cereg.exe, a (remote) registry editor
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| 37 | or via the PerlIDE.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | REGISTRY
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| 40 | To start perl by clicking on a perl source file, you have
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| 41 | to make the according entries in HKCR (see wince-reg.bat).
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| 42 | cereg.exe (which must be executed on a desktop pc with
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| 43 | ActiveSync) is reported not to work on some devices.
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| 44 | You have to create the registry entries by hand using a
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| 45 | registry editor.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | FILES
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| 48 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/dev/null - nul simulation, needed for perl -V
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| 49 | $(UNIXROOTPATH)/etc/services - services file
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| 50 |
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| 51 | /perl-stdin.txt
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| 52 | /perl-stdout.txt
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| 53 | /perl-stderr.txt
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| 54 |
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| 55 | PERLFILES
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| 56 | Only a limited set of perl files is provided in the
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| 57 | distribution archiv. You have to copy the original PERL5LIB
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| 58 | files from a perl for win32 installation and put the
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| 59 | distributed files into the right directories.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | The following files are a reasonable minimum if you want to do
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| 62 | some socket stuff:
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| 63 |
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| 64 | ./auto
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| 65 | ./auto/DynaLoader
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| 66 | ./auto/DynaLoader/autosplit.ix
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| 67 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_expandspec.al
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| 68 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_findfile.al
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| 69 | ./auto/DynaLoader/dl_find_symbol_anywhere.al
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| 70 | ./auto/IO
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| 71 | ./auto/IO/IO.bs
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| 72 | ./auto/IO/IO.dll
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| 73 | ./auto/Socket
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| 74 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.bs
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| 75 | ./auto/Socket/Socket.dll
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| 76 | ./Carp
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| 77 | ./Carp/Heavy.pm
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| 78 | ./Carp.pm
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| 79 | ./Config.pm
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| 80 | ./DynaLoader.pm
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| 81 | ./Exporter
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| 82 | ./Exporter/Heavy.pm
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| 83 | ./Exporter.pm
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| 84 | ./IO
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| 85 | ./IO/File.pm
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| 86 | ./IO/Handle.pm
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| 87 | ./IO/Socket.pm
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| 88 | ./IO.pm
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| 89 | ./SelectSaver.pm
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| 90 | ./Socket.pm
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| 91 | ./strict.pm
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| 92 | ./Symbol.pm
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| 93 | ./warnings
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| 94 | ./warnings/register.pm
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| 95 | ./warnings.pm
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| 96 | ./XSLoader.pm
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| 97 |
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| 98 | XS
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| 99 | The following Win32-Methods are built-in:
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| 100 |
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| 101 | newXS("Win32::GetCwd", w32_GetCwd, file);
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| 102 | newXS("Win32::SetCwd", w32_SetCwd, file);
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| 103 | newXS("Win32::GetTickCount", w32_GetTickCount, file);
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| 104 | newXS("Win32::GetOSVersion", w32_GetOSVersion, file);
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| 105 | newXS("Win32::IsWinNT", w32_IsWinNT, file);
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| 106 | newXS("Win32::IsWin95", w32_IsWin95, file);
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| 107 | newXS("Win32::IsWinCE", w32_IsWinCE, file);
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| 108 | newXS("Win32::CopyFile", w32_CopyFile, file);
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| 109 | newXS("Win32::Sleep", w32_Sleep, file);
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| 110 | newXS("Win32::MessageBox", w32_MessageBox, file);
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| 111 | newXS("Win32::GetPowerStatus", w32_GetPowerStatus, file);
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| 112 | newXS("Win32::GetOemInfo", w32_GetOemInfo, file);
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| 113 | newXS("Win32::ShellEx", w32_ShellEx, file);
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| 114 |
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| 115 | DLLS
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| 116 | In the newest version, my celib.dll is needed. Some XS dlls
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| 117 | might be needed. Currently, Socket and IO are provided.
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| 118 |
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| 119 | BUGS
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| 120 | Opening files for read-write is currently not supported if
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| 121 | they use stdio (normal perl file handles).
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| 122 |
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| 123 | If you find bugs or if it does not work at all on your
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| 124 | device, send mail to the address below. Please report
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| 125 | the details of your device (processor, ceversion,
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| 126 | devicetype (hpc/palm/pocket)) and the date of the downloaded
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| 127 | files.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | I currently have only a Compaq/MIPS HPC, a Jornada/SH3 HPC and
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| 130 | a Jornada/ARM HPC, so I can only test on these devices and
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| 131 | under the Emulators.
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| 132 |
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| 133 | INSTALLATION
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| 134 | This is only a suggestion...
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| 135 |
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| 136 | * Unpack the tar archive on your desktop.
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| 137 | * Create directories /bin, /lib/perl5, /home, /dev and /etc,
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| 138 | possibly on a CF card with the path to the card
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| 139 | prepended (i.e. /memcard/bin etc).
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| 140 | * Copy perl.exe, perl56.dll and celib.dll from your desktop to
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| 141 | /bin. The dlls can also be copied to your /windows
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| 142 | directory, but if you use a CF card, you might want to store
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| 143 | them there.
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| 144 | * Copy the other DLLs to the corresponding auto directory.
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| 145 | * Copy any needed perl module-files to /lib/perl5.
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| 146 | * Create the registry entries.
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| 147 | * If you need tcp service-name resolution, create
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| 148 | the file "services" in /etc and put int the entries you need.
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| 149 |
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| 150 | * Under WINCE200, all dlls must be copied to the windows
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| 151 | directory.
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| 152 |
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| 153 | MISC
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| 154 | If you think a certain XS module should be ported, send
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| 155 | me mail and explain why.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | If you write useful scripts for perlce, please send me
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| 158 | a copy.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | TERMINAL
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| 161 | There are simple terminal control sequences now. See the
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| 162 | readme file that comes with the console program.
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| 163 |
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| 164 | AUTHOR
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| 165 | Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de> 2001
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| 166 |
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