Perl can be cross-compiled. It is just not trivial, cross-compilation
rarely is. Perl is routinely cross-compiled for several platforms: as of
-January 2013, these include Android, Blackberry 10, PocketPC aka
+January 2014, these include Android, Blackberry 10, PocketPC aka
WinCE, ARM Linux, and Solaris. Previous versions of
Perl also provided support for Open Zaurus, Symbian, and
the IBM OS/400, but it's unknown if those ports are still functional.