NAME 

perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS

NOTE 

Perl 5.8.0 cannot be built in AmigaOS. You can use either the maintenance release Perl 5.6.1 or the development release Perl 5.7.2 in AmigaOS. See ``PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS'' if you want to help fixing this problem.

SYNOPSIS 

One can read this document in the following formats: 
        man perlamiga
        multiview perlamiga.guide

to 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: 

      


DESCRIPTION 



Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS 





Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library

 You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS,
whose most important part is ixemul.library. For a minimum
setup, get the latest versions of the following packages from the
Aminet archives ( http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/
):

        ixemul-bin
        ixemul-env-bin
        pdksh-bin


Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add
other packages of ADE (the Amiga
Developers Environment).

Version of Amiga OS

 You need at the very least AmigaOS version
2.0. Recommended is version 3.1.



Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS 


Start your Perl program foo with arguments "arg1 arg2
arg3" the same way as on any other platform, by

        perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3


If you want to specify perl options "-my_opts" to the
perl itself (as opposed to your program), use

        perl -my_opts foo arg1 arg2 arg3


Alternately, 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.)