My cell phone is ready for a tech refresh, so I'm looking into a fancy PDA w/ semi-real keyboard. And of course, I'd like to run Perl on it.

Many moons ago, I managed to get Perl + DBI + a DBD running on the Sharp Zaurus via WiFi, and a friend got it running on a WinCE cell phone over a 3G network. But that was about 4 years ago, using Perl 5.6. I'd like to get 5.8.8, and have it run on the latest Windows Mobile edition. I found the perlce page at SF.net, but the contents seem a bit dated, and I was hoping it might be possible to find a binary ? I've also seen a few recent p5p posts wrt WinCE support, but am not clear what the complete story is.

Can anyone shed some light ? Are any binaries of 5.8 available for common WinMobile platforms ? Or do I have to roll my own ?

In reply to Perl for Windows Mobile ? by renodino

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