1microperl is supposed to be a really minimal perl, even more 2minimal than miniperl. No Configure is needed to build microperl, 3on the other hand this means that interfaces between Perl and your 4operating system are left very -- minimal. 5 6All this is experimental. If you don't know what to do with microperl 7you probably shouldn't. Do not report bugs in microperl; fix the bugs. 8 9We assume ANSI C89 plus the following: 10- <stdlib.h> 11- rename() 12- opendir(), readdir(), closedir() (via dirent.h) 13- memchr(), memcmp(), memcpy() (via string.h) 14- (a safe) putenv() (via stdlib.h) 15- strtoul() (via stdlib.h) 16(grep for 'define' in uconfig.sh.) 17Also, Perl times() is defined to always return zeroes. 18 19If you are still reading this and you are itching to try out microperl: 20 21 make -f Makefile.micro 22 23If you make changes to uconfig.sh, run 24 25 make -f Makefile.micro regen_uconfig 26 27to regenerate uconfig.h. If your compilation platform is not 32-bit 28little-endian (like x86), you might want to try 29 30 make -f Makefile.micro patch_uconfig 31 32*before* the "make -f Makefile.micro". This tries to minimally patch 33the uconfig.sh using your *current* Perl so that your microperl has 34the correct basic types and sizes and byteorder. 35 36