How to use perl on Symbian?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've just (yesterday) bought a Nokia 6630 and today I'm trying to use perl on it. No success yet :( I've downloaded Jarkko Hietaniemi' s "Perl for Symbian" project (the build package) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/symbianperl/

The package includes some info, but I didn't get how to install and run perl on my phone... Anyone here tried this before? I can't say that I'm familiar with smartphones...

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Re: How to use perl on Symbian? by Courage (Parson) on Aug 22, 2005 at 13:45 UTC
not 100% hitting the target, but somewhat close I saw Jarkko recently did some additions into p5p list WRT perl on symbian, may be you need to get latest snapshot? Did you try recompiling, or just using binaries? BTW I, personally, love using Perl on my phone-pocketpc, see perlce on sf.net :):)	[reply]
Re^2: How to use perl on Symbian? by mhi (Friar) on Aug 24, 2005 at 07:18 UTC
You be talking http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlce. Note that Symbian is currently Alpha and PerlCE Beta and with the limited module-support neither are for the feignt of heart. :-)	[reply]
Re^3: How to use perl on Symbian? by Courage (Parson) on Aug 24, 2005 at 20:36 UTC
... but symbian support, in my opinion, is evolving much better right now. As for limited module support - you're right, many is impossible with that perl. Still, quite enough to write toy dictionaries with GUI or Parse::RecDescent probes, as it was in my case ...	[reply]
Re^2: How to use perl on Symbian? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2005 at 19:48 UTC
I'm an idiot :p I didn't install all the required files before. It' s now working :) Jarkko did a great job. I'm using the binaries, didn't compile it myself... PS: I can't use perlce :) but thanks anyway...	[reply]