Re: [MacPerl-Modules] Perlmagick

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Larry Moore wrote:

> >i have put the Magick.pm file in my site_perl folder, but there is a folder
> >called t in the download....do i simply have to copy the contents to the t
> >folder in the MacPerl folder? or is it more complicated than this?
> >
> The t folder usually contains scripts that test whether the module was
> correctly installed and works properly.
> 
Looks like mail got hosed over the weekend... :-) Anyway, I just wanted to
point out, since Adam's getting into PerlMagick, that one needs to have
ImageMagick, the C library, built and available to start with. The
PerlMagick.xs is just the XS *interface* to all that functionality.

ImageMagick has already been ported to MacOS in a limited way. The basic
tools are available as apps. So building a library that supplies most of
the functionality shouldn't be too gross.

The distributions are sizeable, and so a shared library suitable for
MacPerl wouldn't be too small, either.

This is one of those situations that poses some problems for Mac porting
wrt CPAN. If all the functionality was shared between the Perl and XS
code, then we could build it and put it up on CPAN no problem. But for the
cases where the functionality is mostly in a C library someplace, and the
XS is just interfacing, I think there is less support for us putting the
binaries up on CPAN. Yes, there are counter-examples - XML-Parser is one,
but Larry Wall had a hand in this module, the distribution encapsulates
the C library, so it is sort of OK.

If there is enough demand for this thing I can take a look and build it,
and at least supply instructions. Apple MPW is free and one ought to be
able to build a shared PerlMagick lib with MrC.

Arved



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