Re: [MacPerl] using the cygnus mac port to compile perl native distrib ?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

lolo@ipbs.fr writes:
>I ve seen on ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/mac/ some tools that seems to
>emulate unix on the mac (with the help of mpw of course).

No, that impression is totally wrong, I'm afraid.

>And i was thinking to myself, perhaps it is possible to use the native
>distrib of perl and compile it for mac...

Nope. What those tools offer is basically the gcc environment, which is a nice
compiler for many purposes, but not necessarily for building Mac programs. It
does not help at all with building unix tools, except with the Makefiles.

Matthias

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