#Micro perl how to
#Micro perl software

Re^3: What do we have to do to resuscitate micro Perl? I want Circuit Perl NOW! I am not thinking so much for 8 bit AVRs but rather in archs where you may have 2 chips (think Arduino Yún that's why I mention OpenWRT) or in larger microcontrollers like ESP8266 which is where most of the Circuit Python is working right now AFAIK. (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) > fit and run within just 256k of code spaceįor comparison: App::Staticperl comes with an example ' SmallPerl' which fits into 580k.Īnd this still includes packages like Coro or AnyEvent. Re^2: What do we have to do to resuscitate micro Perl? I want Circuit Perl NOW! I haven't heard of any ongoing projects like this, so I'm interested to see what other's takes are though.

#Micro perl software

Adding in a whole extra layer would slow things down at best, and add in an entire new software layer for things to go wrong at worst.

Personally, I sometimes do my microcontroller prototyping on a Linux box with Perl, then port it over to C/C++ when the code does what I want, but the whole point of using a microcontroller is to run extremely efficiently. Not embedded, but for Raspberry Pi, we've got RPi::WiringPi ( tutorial) and WiringPi::API, but that's not microcontroller. I would stand corrected if it were possible. I'm no authority, but I highly doubt that even the most trimmed down version of perl could 'fit and run within just 256k of code space and 16k of RAM'.

#Micro perl how to

For example the authors of Perl::Dist::Strawberry likely have experiences with how to add modules from CPAN into their build. I would at least talk to the people maintaining other Perl distributions to learn about their experiences with building and maintaining Perl binary distributions. This gives you a minimal Perl without any loadable modules and wiull give you a lot of headaches once you want to add more modules that need a C compiler. Adding a selection of modules to that build should be fairly easy.Īnother approach would be to just build the miniperl from source and then use that.

The first thing I would look at is App::Staticperl, which mostly builds a Perl without dynamic module loading. Re: What do we have to do to resuscitate micro Perl? I want Circuit Perl NOW!