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Tested with Firefox 28, chromium-browser 34
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May not work on mobile browsers.
About
This is perl without CPAN/POSIX/XS/Bundled Modules, aka just perl and none of the fluff. It is derived from the microperl and miniperl build files of the perl-5.16.3 code.
Installation
- Linux
make
make plutest
./plu -e "print 'hello world'"
- Emscripten (Console)
make -f Makefile_emcc CONSOLE=1
cat entry_point.js plu.js > plu.run.js
node plu.run.js virtual_file.pl
- Emscripten (for Web)
make -f Makefile_emcc
cp plu.js to web_repl/js/microperl.js
Open web_repl/repl.html in a browser !
There is also a CONSOLE=1 make option which generates plu.console.js, for debugging.
Shoutout
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http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html (for inspiration)
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https://github.com/themucker/ for doing some of the initial work on perl for JavaScript.
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Shlomi Fish (http://www.shlomifish.org/) from #perl (me) for later updates
TODO
- Unit test emscripten code.
- Write limitations.
- Select a few CPAN modules for bundling.
- REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) oriented towards beginners.
- s/js/perl/ ? (Don't think so, but a possibility).
- Experiment with the perl source code for fun and profit !
License
Artistic License 1 + GPLv1-or-above