Re: [MacPerl-Porters] perl internals as shared library?

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kevin Walker wrote:

[snip]

> > If it doesn't already exist, would it be straightforward to create it?
> >
> Depends on your def'n of straightforward. You should look at the top-level
> Makefile(s) in the MacPerl_Src distribution, and pick out the build
> targets for the (reasonably) unsullied pure perl part. Trace the
> prerequisites. If that looks OK to *you*, then it's "reasonable". :-)

If folks go poking into such things I'd like to re-mention my incomplete
attempt to help people examine the pre-reqs on their system.  It is an 
MPW analog of the Configure Bourne shell script (as such it won't necessarily 
help with the specific task of building a MacPerl dll but is intended to be 
more of a "help you build MacPerl" tool).  
It is available from:

    http://www.best.com/~pvhp/mac/

You'll likely want to grab the symlinks with the .txt extension, that is:

    http://www.best.com/~pvhp/mac/Configure.mpw.txt

    http://www.best.com/~pvhp/mac/README.Configure.mpw.txt

(warning: those contain MPW specific eight bit chars and I have only 
tested dowloading them on a Mac.  I cannot guarentee that they'd survive 
going through the translation tables implied by downloading via a non-Mac 
system).

The old libraries you'd need for a build of MacPerl are available on the
CD that comes with the MPP&E dragon book.

Matthius has mentioned that he is considering converting the MacPerl build
process to a pure CodeWarrior project format that might obviate the need 
for MPW altogether.

Have fun :-)

Peter Prymmer


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