Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Perl on OS X

[Jeff Lowrey <jeff@firepower.jaral.org>]

At 2:35 PM -0500 10/7/00, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm not a unix/perl guru so if some of this seems lame, please bear with me
>as I'm trying to understand this.
>
>I've been playing with perl on OS X beta for a few days now and have a few
>comments and questions.
>
>First, do I need the "Make" utility to install a module like GD.pm. OS X
>beta doesn't include this, (GD or Make) which is too bad because GD is great
>stuff.
>
>I'm sure I need to install and compile GD.lib and some other C code stuff to
>make GD.pm work. Anyone accomplished this yet. How about ImageMagik?
>
>To compile some of these apps I think I need something like the gcc
>compiler. This also does not come with the beta. Can it be used? Has anyone
>tried to install and compile anything with gcc? Are there other options like
>codewarrior?

Both GCC and make are available for OS X through a couple of places. 
One is through the developer package that only ships to people who 
are ADC Select or higher members.  The other is through the Darwin 
project - the open source part of OS X.  The first option costs at 
least $500 U.S.  The second costs the time to wade throug the entire 
darwin package to get the pieces you want (as I understand it).

>And finally, I searched the Macperl list for "OS X" with the Sherlock plugin
>and there were no results. Will Macperl release there own version of perl
>for OS X? One that might include a more complete set of built-in modules? I
>sure hope so. You know, I might even pay for something like that.  (Hint
>Hint ;)

Did you only search the MacPerl list, or did you search all the 
MacPerl lists (forum, web-cgi,anyperl,modules,etc...)?  There's 
conversations about Perl and MacOS X in various threads over the last 
year or so including the following:
[MacPerl-Toolbox] Whither Max OSx and MacPerl - Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:04:36 -0400
[MacPerl] Press article: Perl for Mac OS X - Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:12:18 +0200
[MacPerl] OSX & MacPerl - Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:43:01 -0700
[MacPerl] Perl under OS X? - Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:19:50 -0400
[MacPerl] MacPerl plan for OSX - Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:16:39 -0400
[MacPerl] MacPerl and OS X (yet again :-) - Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:04:03 -0500
[MacPerl-WebCGI] perl on OS X - Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:40:55 -0500

I don't use the sherlock plugin (in fact the above list was created 
by manually searching my own archives), so I don't know if there are 
issues with it finding things.  You could try using the webbased 
search and see if it gives different results.

-Jeff Lowrey

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