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1CPAN/ports/README 2 3 You are probably looking for a binary distribution of Perl. 4 If so, go directly to 5 6 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html 7 8 The rest of this file tells is more detail about the 9 contents of this directory (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/) 10 but in principle, the above URL should be all you need. 11 12CONTENTS 13 14 This directory contains ports (or pointers to such) of Perl 15 16 (1) to platforms that the Perl standard source code distribution (S) 17 does not (yet) support, such as Tandem Guardian. 18 19 (2) to platforms where a C compiler is an exception, not the rule, 20 like for example the Windows platforms and OS/2. 21 22 (3) some of the directories here are empty and just contain pointers 23 back to (S). These are Perl source code archaeology in action: 24 once upon a time these platforms were not supported in the (S), 25 but they are now. Examples include Amiga, BeOS, and MPE/iX. 26 27 (S) Either 28 29 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz 30 31 or 32 33 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.zip 34 35 Grab that, unpack it, start off by reading the README. 36 37BUILDING PERL FROM SOURCE 38 39 To build from the (S) you will need a full C compiler and 40 some sort of compilation environment ('make' or some similar 41 build tool). If you have a UNIX-like shell environment 42 (Bourne shell and the usual UNIX utilities like 'tr', 'sed', 43 and so on), so much the better. 44 45 Because Perl's roots are in the UNIX world in general any 46 UNIX platform should be supported in the (S). If this isn't 47 the case, please send email to perlbug@perl.com and tell in 48 excruciating detail what is your UNIX platform. For example 49 the output of "uname -a" or similar would be handy. 50 51 Beware: some platforms which the vendors call UNIX do not 52 have a full C compiler -- or if they have a 'bundled' one, 53 it's severely crippled, supplied mainly for compiling the 54 kernel/device drivers. 55 56 Perl requires more than that. 57 58 Such crippled platforms include HP-UX and Solaris. Either 59 you will have to pay for the full C compiler or find 60 yourself the GNU C compiler (gcc) as a binary distribution. 61 If you don't know where to start, locate the FAQ for your 62 platform. If you don't know what that is or where to get 63 that, use the search engines. If you don't know what those 64 are, consult your local information systems support. If 65 they don't know what all the above means, fire them. 66 67-- 68cpan@perl.org