Re: x86-64 port of Perl

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:47:57PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I'd like to look into getting Perl ported to the x86-64 platform.  Those of
> you who have worked on 64-bit ports, what's involved?  Anything beyond a
> simple recompile?

In general Perl has already been tried on some many 64-bit platforms that
a simple recompile should be enough.  Some surprises still might be found,
every new 64-bit platform finds few nits more, but they are these days
limited in number, and the number keeps getting smaller.

Try the latest Perl developer snapshots, available at

	ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/

What operating system are you using?  If a UNIXish one, after unpacking
a snapshot just

	sh ./Configure -des -Dusedevel -Duse64bitint
	make all test

might work.  If you want to go the whole hog and try 64-bit address spaces

	sh ./Configure -des -Dusedevel -Duse64bitall
	make all test

Between re-Configures "make distclean" is usually a good idea.
INSTALL tells you more about the configuration and build process.

If you are using some other OS platform than UNIXish, try reading
promisingly named README.platform files.

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