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.
> Marc J. Miller
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