Re^2: Perl for Windows Mobile ?

OK, sounds like I've got some work to do. Will your binaries run on Intel XScale CPUs ? (I'm hoping to get a Verizon VX6700)

FWIW: my need has nothing to do w/ building pTk, or GUIs of any type. My need is actually much simpler/utilitarian: I've built up a spam killer script over the years that does a pretty good job at killing most of the garbage (esp. the more dangerous variety). On my laptop/desktop, I run both that script and Thunderbird, so I'm pretty safe.

Alas, to the best of my knowledge, the only email client for WinMobile is LookOut!, so my paranoia level is pretty high, and makes running my spamkiller script pretty critical.

Update: found some other email clients, so now I've got even more work to do <sigh/>

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Re^3: Perl for Windows Mobile ? by vkon (Curate) on Jul 02, 2006 at 17:57 UTC
I think this is not very realistic, due to OS limitations. Perl build is based on CELIB, which also isn't very robust. Mostly you'll be able to run toy scripts, but no daemons etc. BTW Is your WinCE version free of Serious Design Limitations?	[reply]
Re^4: Perl for Windows Mobile ? by renodino (Curate) on Jul 02, 2006 at 18:56 UTC
I have run the older 5.6 on both a Zaurus and a 3G PDA phone, both with smaller memories than the VX6700, and including DBI::PurePerl and a pure perl DBD, so hopefully my much smaller spamkiller script would run OK. But I fear it may be 5.8 dependent (esp. the req'd Net::POP3 modules). And I'd like to run my weblog analyzer scripts, and maybe run ssh from http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html. Guess I'll see how far I can get w/ the older version before trying to DIY w/ the latest (even tho it would be kewl). BTW Is your WinCE version free of Serious Design Limitations? I saw that, and did some more digging (the linked thread is 2 years old), and there are some oddly related issues that popped up during my research (mostly fixed by registry hacks). BTW: on perlce, you mention the threaded build is a memory pig... have you tried building with the latest threads changes ? I wonder if the stack tuning would help any ? Also, which version of WinCE were you running ? (I'd be running WinMobile 5.0) And even tho I said I didn't need any GUI stuff...do you have any idea if Win32::GUI has any hope of running on WinCE ? Anyway, thanks for all the info..	[reply]
Re^5: Perl for Windows Mobile ? by vkon (Curate) on Jul 02, 2006 at 19:40 UTC
you look prepared for the battle, I no more fear for you to lose the sanity :):) I have cassiopeia(MIPS) PocketPC 3.0, and also have some ARM-enabled device with PocketPC 4.20 When you'll be running 5.0, could you please look at "serious limitation" there? :) As for threads - I did the build (so compiler did not choke), but actual threading was not working, rather all threads were waitning for other threads. I am not optimistic for threading on Win32, so IMO WinCE even not worth trying... (your opinion may vary, of course :) As for Win32::GUI - I think there are chances for it to work, albeit stripped version. Just comment out what will be not working, and remaining stuff will work. Actually WinCE C library is quite good at Win32 GDI, yet CELIB has some more. Look at CELIB sources, there are many Win32-like functions.	[reply]