Re^4: Perl for Windows Mobile ?

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..

Comment on Re^4: Perl for Windows Mobile ?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
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]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^5: Perl for Windows Mobile ?
by vkon (Curate) on Jul 02, 2006 at 19:40 UTC

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]