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Re: [MacPerl] Porting XSes?

Michael Schuerig <uzs90z@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>I'd like to have some modules involving external libs available on the Mac
>and I'm wondering what's involved in porting them. I had a very quick look
>at perlxstut and related docs, but I'm unable to estimate the effort
>porting would take. Has anyone tried this already (preferably using
>CodeWarrior, not MPW)?

Establishing the initial MacPerl source tree setup is tricky (and no, I would
not advise you to try it without MPW). Once that is done, however, porting
simple modules is quite simple (i.e. modules like NDBM or GD have been compiled
for MacPerl virtually unchanged).

Matthias

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