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This wiki is intended to gather and discuss information about building and using Perl and Tcl-Tk on WinCE.

These pages are hopefully very easy to update, so here you'll probably find more recent information, and probably will add your own bit of information, or ask questions on related pages. To edit, just say so on perlce mailing list and I'll immediately share password for editing permissions.

Requirements for rebuilding both Perl and Tcl/Tk? on CE

Following should be prepared for both perl and tcl/tk:

cross-compiler, see Preparing compiler for WinCE
CELIB, because both PerlCE? and Tcl-Tk-Ce use it as underlying C library. To obtain it see http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/ for it and other software ported to WinCE.
- [Downloading CELIB]? usually is good enough.
- rebuilding CELIB is possible but not usually necessary.

Perl on WinCE

Building Perl for WinCE
[Prepare to use Perl for WinCE, installing process]?
[Using Perl on WinCE]?
... more and better to come ...

Tcl-Tk on WinCE

links to many information on http://mini.net/tcl containing much information on subject:

http://mini.net/tcl/2?PocketPC
... more and better to come ...

What WinCE devices are used/could be used

Please add information about your device at the page WinCE devices usage practice

To get an idea if your processor is supported by cross-compiler, and which namely binaries should you use, see page http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/supproc/default.aspx

Success stories using perl, tcl/tk on WinCE

Despite meeting general difficulties when cross-compiling stuff and moving and editing registry, things could be settled: see Happy screenshots.

Problems building/using perl, tcl/tk on WinCE

[Usage problems]?
- Be aware, WinCE, PocketPC have serious design limitations
Build problems

Miscellaneous

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