Re: [MacPerl] Distributing reduced MacPerl package with Droplet ?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 10.12 98.02.03, Toni Zollikofer wrote:
>Can I test it only on a machine that does not have the MacPerl package on it?
>I have a PowerPC, but I guess even if it is a fat binary, both embedded
>executables would access the statically linked libraries, right?
>Or is just this library not linked in?

The BigAppl has 68K and PPC code.  The 68K version of the code has the
static libraries, the PPC version uses dynamic libraries.  You can either
install it (non-FAT) on a 68K machine and use that version, or you can use
a utility (I have one called StripPPC and another called Strip68K) that can
strip the offending code out.  I have a special version of BigMacPerl (FAT)
that I dropped on StripPPC and now it is 68K-only.

Of course, always make sure you can restore the app if something goes wrong
with such an operation.

>>The script to save the TEXT libraries in the resource fork has been posted
>>many times, and is also on the MacPerl CD-ROM (ExtractModules is its name).
>>If you need it, I can e-mail it to you.  The only thing this droplet does
>>not do for you is it does not embed autoloaded files ... if it still says
>>it can't find files after you run the droplet, you can just add those extra
>>ones by hand, using ResEdit.  You should see, in the TEXT resource, how it
>>all works.
>
>I have looked at your script, but it only replaces the files, that are
>mentioned in the script itself, it does not walk through recursively, right?

I did not write ExtractModules, but now, it goes through and gets all
modules and require'd files through the tree.  If you use a module that
uses other modules, it gets em all.

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