Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Configure.mpw

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

On 19 Mar 1999, Matthias Neeracher wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.990318083430.19354B-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>, Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> >> While I have not yet built MacPerl from source yet (actually I don't
> >> have a copy of MWC :-)
> 
> > I have reason to believe that you are as likely to be able to build
> > MacPerl with MrC under Apple MPW (all free) as you are with CW Pro 3 or 4.
> 
> Last time I looked, GUSI was totally incompatible with Apple's MPW
> compilers (in particular SC, I don't think I've looked at MrC). I'd like
> for GUSI 2 to be SC & MrC compatible, though.
> 
It would be a nice thing. :-) Me, personally, I'm keeping up with
Codewarrior, but I just _like_ the idea of having a free build process for
MacPerl, and for XS, to go along with the fact that MP is free. Rounds
everything out.

So GUSI is the hitch, is it? Mind you, you say that you looked at SC, not
MrC. Our (Alan Fry and myself) initial evaluation of XS with Apple MPW has
led us to believe that MrC is more or less straightforward - we have
numerous working builds including some MacPerl extensions - but SC is
posing some problems (linking stage). But I think they'll get ironed out.
In any case, my point is that looking at SC first may give a bad
impression. :-)

Are you currently doing GUSI 2 with some kind of intent that it might be
MrC (and SC) buildable? If I can be of any assistance in running some
tests or checking things out, just ask. 

Arved



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