Re: [MacPerl] Perl module installation

["J. Douglas Dunlop" <dunlop@ionline.net>]

At 10:44 pm -0500 12/19/97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 22.35 12/19/97, J. Douglas Dunlop wrote:
>>I read the chapter on extensibility and although it is a valuable source of
>>information about installing additional perl modules it does not address
>>the issue of what is needed to actually build a module that relies on a C
>>library.
>
>Well, it kindof does, actually.  It says that you should probably forget
>about it.  :)

Not :), should be :(
>
>
>>Can anyone offer any advice on how would one go about building a
>>module that did require a C compiler to build?
>
>As to compiling extensions, I have built MacPerl from the sources and part
>of my blood pact with Matthias after that long day is that I will write up
>a summary of how to do it.  This will include a bit on how to compile
>extensions.  It will be coming sometime in the next weeks.

Ok, I look forward to reading it. Not to be too cheap about it, but given
that MPW/MrC is now freely available from Apple it would be real nice to
see a writeup that gave a decription for that development enviroment. From
what I have read on this list Matthias uses MetroWerks and even a
description for building modules in that enviroment would be very helpful.

>
>As to DBI/DBD, you will need a client library ported to Mac OS first.
>Someone mentioned that might take on portions of the DBI project; this is
>something that people might want to get together on.

If you have any more information regarding DBI/DBD for the Mac please pass
it along.


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