in reply to How much of Perl can be removed?

Speaking of perl on PocketPC, I participated a bit porting 5.8.0 into WinCE, and can confirm it living there with (almost) full health, with PerlIO layers and most core modules, even most of them passed most tests. (Cassiopeia E125 is my config)

Speaking of minimal distribution on the other side, I can share another my experience: I succeeded "packing" perl-5.6.1+Tk+Compress::Zlib+(some-other-modules) into some 20 files, most of which are dll-s on my Win32 machine and all text modules being packed into "modules.pm" file (~130Kb in size) which at bootstrap time is unpacked into normal perl modules set.

Having in total 20 files with total size of ~2Mb I have perl with Tk and those selected modules, which I often use. Very convenient to make independent distributions...

Courage, the Cowardly Dog
things, I do for love to perl...

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Re: Re: How much of Perl can be removed?
by elwarren (Priest) on Aug 14, 2002 at 15:39 UTC
    I'm running PerlCE on my iPaq and it seems to work well. I keep this build on a storage card. IO::Socket, Win32::Serial, Win32::API and Win32::OLE are in there, and some modules can be brought over. I haven't found much doco on the net for api calls on ce, but I haven't looked very hard either.

    I've only really used PerlCE to run a while loop and feed text into the flite program, but I'm planning on using it to read data from my gps, log it, then make announcements based on location. (flite is the festival lite engine ported to ce, you can use it to make your pda talk, available on the same site.)
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