Re: [MacPerl] mac/win common source base

[Michael Rutman <moose@manicmoose.com>]

Thanks for your response.  It's good to know.

Have you had any problems compiling qsort.cp?  I get stuck on _Cmpfun being
undefined.

At 11:20 AM -0700 7/17/98, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 14.05 -0400 1998.07.17, Michael Rutman wrote:
>>I have a project where I need to have a mac and windows perl plugin.  I'd
>>really like to use a common perl code base.
>>
>>Does anyone know how hard it would be to move the current MacPerl stuff to
>>the current perl code base?  Or failing that, does anyone know how hard it
>>would be to move the current win32 stuff to the current MacPerl stuff?
>
>There is no significant difference (for most definitions of "significant")
>in how Perl works between MacPerl and the Standard port for Win32.  MacPerl
>is based on 5.004, the Standard port for Win32 on 5.004_02.  Some
>differences, but nothing really significant.  I don't see why it would be
>any sort of a problem.
>
>Also, perl5.005 is right around the corner.  MacPerl will begin to move to
>5.005 once perl5.005 is released, and, indeed, more changes on the Mac side
>will get rolled back to the standard distribution, where appropriate (for
>some definitions of "appropriate").
>
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Michael Rutman
Manic Moose Consulting
Macintosh and NeXTSTEP consultant  (Guess that's redundant now)
moose@manicmoose.com



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