[MacPerl] MacPerl 5 Runtime question

[sweaver@bluenova.com (Scott Weaver)]

I have just installed MacPerl 5.0.5r1m (29Dec95) and I cannot get a runtime
application to run.

I am on a PowerMac 6100/66 and selected the "Install for this Mac" option,
so I assume I got the PPC version.

I removed MacPerl 4.1.8 (which I had been using) because I was not sure if
they could co-exist. If they can, please let me know how to set it up.

I had a minor modification to a script that had been previously written
using MacPerl 4.1.8 and saved as a "System 7 Runtime" application. I opened
the application in MacPerl 5 and made my change then ran the syntax checker
which said everything is "OK". I ran the script from within MacPerl 5 and
it worked fine.

I saved it as a runtime application and tried to run it by double-clicking
and I got "The application "xxx" can not be opened because an unexpected
error occured.".

I have been playing with this but I am not very experienced with Perl,
MacPerl (4 or 5), so I am just guessing.

When I use "Save as" in MacPerl 5, my options are Text and runtime (plus
droplet & CGI, but those don't apply in this case). Under MacPerl 4, I had
options for system 6 runtime, system 7 runtime and system 6&7 runtime.
Since the script uses the MacPerl'Applescript function, I saved the MacPerl
4 version as System 7 runtime.

The distribution folder for MacPerl5 did not contain an application file
called "MacPerl Runtime" which did exist in MacPerl4. Also the size of the
saved application is about 90K under MacPerl5 but was over 500K with
MacPerl4.

I assume that I have missed something in all of this, usually something
simple and basic, but I don't know what it is? (If I did, I wouldn't need
to ask).

Any help that any of you may have would be much appreciated.

Scott Weaver
sweaver@bluenova.com