android

Installing Perl on Android (native).

Toolkit:

CCTools: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdaxrom.cctools

With profile: gcc

With add-ones: binutils, git (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wbduq756bvd2skc/cgPjv6iGOH just unzip in /data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root)

You can login via dropbear server (port 22022) after dropbear add-one is installed.

Uninstall perl add-one if already installed.

Precompiled Perl binaries:

cd /sdcard/CCTools/backup
wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/wwsq0nfyxgazz6p/perl_5.18.2-30-ge7e507e_armel.zip
cd /data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root
umask 0002
unzip /sdcard/CCTools/backup/perl_5.18.2-30-ge7e507e_armel.zip 'cctools/*'

Building from source

Environment

The source files should be on ext3 filesystem. If /data partition has too less free space, you can prepare the new one. In such case, root is required:

id # ie.: uid=10205 gid=10205 groups=1015,1028,3003
su
id # uid=0 gid=0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdcard/src.bin bs=1024 count=$((512*1024))
mke2fs -f /sdcard/src.bin
tune2fs -j /sdcard/src.bin
mknod /dev/block/loop8 b 7 8 # check if is it a free number before
losetup /dev/block/loop8 /sdcard/src.bin 
mkdir -p /sdcard/src
mount -t ext3 /sdcard/src.bin /sdcard/src
chown -R 10205:10205 /sdcard/src # previous uid:gid
exit

Android doesn't have global temporary directory. You should set up some environment variables:

mkdir -p /data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools/tmp
chmod 1777 /data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools/tmp
TMPDIR=/data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools/tmp
export TMPDIR

Clone the source

cd $HOME # or cd /sdcard/src
git clone https://github.com/dex4er/perl5-android -b dexter/android/v5.18.2 perl

Configure

cd perl
sh Configure -des \
-Dlibpth='/system/lib /data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools/lib' \
-Dusrinc=/data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools/arm-linux-androideabi/include \
-Dprefix=/data/data/com.pdaxrom.cctools/root/cctools

Build and install

make
make install

Does it work?

perl -V

Should be similar to https://gist.github.com/dex4er/8392148#file-perl-v-txt

cpanminus

The most critical is the newest version of version package. The previous version breaks cpanminus.

curl -kL http://git.io/-5gwAA | perl - version

Then we can install cpanminus itself:

curl -kL http://git.io/-5gwAA | perl - App::cpanminus
cpanm -v

Broken packages

Some noticed issues:

• URI https://github.com/libwww-perl/uri/pull/14

cpanm --no-wget https://github.com/libwww-perl/uri/archive/master.tar.gz

• Plack https://github.com/plack/Plack/pull/442

cpanm --no-wget https://github.com/plack/Plack/archive/master.tar.gz

• LWP (libwww-perl) https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/53

cpanm --no-wget https://github.com/dex4er/libwww-perl/archive/master.tar.gz

There is a problem with DNS resolver for environment started from CCTools session:

$ lwp-request -m HEAD http://www.cpan.org  
Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname)

But sessions started with adb shell does work:

$ lwp-request -m HEAD www.cpan.org                  
200 OK

You can also use ConnectBot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot) with local shell session.

• Doesn't support locale, so you shouldn't use "use locale" in your scripts because this pragma is broken on systems which doesn't provide setlocale() function