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I have a need to test some Perl 4 code. It will run on an ancient (pre-386) machine that I don't currently have access to. I would like to compile it for OS X, but I can't find the source on CPAN (it seems to only go back to 5.004).
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Type perl -v on a command line to find out which version. ActiveState Perl has binary distributions of Perl for many platforms. This is the simplest way to install the latest version of Perl.
Perl’s source code (the instructions that build a program) is freely available and compiles on over 100 platforms. You can download it directly and build a version yourself, after installing any prerequisite packages used to build software on your operating system (see below).
A good setup for Perl on Windows (32 and 64 bit): Make sure you do not have any version of Perl already installed. Download and install Padre, the Perl IDE/editor (Strawberry Perl version 5.12.3 comes as part of the install, you also get many other useful CPAN modules as well). Log out and back in (or reboot)
The recent release of Perl 5.20 came with the exciting news that Perl was now installable on Android, Google’s mobile operating system. But before you get grand visions of flying phone-controlled drones via UAV::Pilot, know that right now, how to get a working Perl binary is just about all that’s documented.
The original simtel archive is down, but this link will give you a version of Perl 4.19 that will run on an 8086:
http://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/perl/
The filename is perl419x.zip and has been tested on on DOS 4.3 with 640k of memory and works.
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http://www.cpan.org/src/unsupported/4.036/
Which I got to from http://perl.org => DOWNLOAD => Perl source code => unsupported
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