Is there some tiny perl that I can use in embedded system where the size would matter?

embedded, perl

Solution

See Simon Cozens' article on Microperl.

`microperl` is a real, honest-to-goodness Perl interpreter; no core elements of the Perl language have been removed. The regular expression engine is exactly the same, the language is exactly the same, it has the same Unicode support, and so on. The only things that have been removed from it are functions that are completely system-specific, like `crypt` and `readdir`.

See also README.micro:

`microperl` is supposed to be a really minimal perl, even more minimal than `miniperl`. No Configure is needed to build `microperl`, on the other hand this means that interfaces between Perl and your operating system are left very -- minimal.

All this is experimental. If you don't know what to do with `microperl` you probably shouldn't. Do not report bugs in `microperl`; fix the bugs.

Depending on size constraints, you may not need to go that far, just using `miniperl` —which is built in the process of compiling `perl`— might be enough.

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