Short anser: yes it does.

Longer answer: it depends on what you want out of perl. I managed to build perl from scratch on my Synology DS213:

Linux 2.6.32.12 [DSM 4.3-3827-0]  Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)/0 armv5
+tel  499 Mb

$ /pro/bin/perl -v
This is perl 5, version 19, subversion 4 (v5.19.4 (v5.19.3-309-g760100
+7*)) built for armv5tel-linux
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

[download]

But I have problems with dynamic loading due to shared lib conflicts. I installed the development suite as the Synology site prescribes. The CORE has been amended to support the deviating environment.

The download sites for the DSM also have prebuilt perl available, but I find</p 

$ /usr/bin/perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MARVELL_88F6281

[download]

Way too old to play with :)

There is also an alternative resource, but that also is not reasonably up-to-date:

$ /opt/bin/perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for arm-none-linux-gnueabi

[download]

IIRC Brian managed to do a cross-compile build for ARM.

Native compilation on ARM just uses Configure if the OS is Linux-like, so all rules for Linux/Unix regarding configuring threads, 32/64-bitness and all apply.

Not every ARM is the same. I noticed that my armv5tel is not the same as other ARM architectures. YMMV.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: Does Perl run on ARM? by Tux
in thread Does Perl run on ARM? by BrowserUk

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