Re: [MacPerl] Troubles using GD examples

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:07:34AM -0400, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
} On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:28:37AM -0500, John C. Potter wrote:
} } Paul,
} 
} } 
} } I needed to pick among bigappl or appl_cfm68k.  I believe the other choices
} } dealt with MPW which I don't currently have running.  I chose bigappl.
} 
} Right.  It's been so long since I set up my 68k machine that I forgot
} about that.  I chose appl_cfm68k myself, for the following reason.
} bigappl has modules statically compiled in.  You're fortunate that GD
} is one of the ones that Matthias put in.  But if you ever want to use
} one of the other modules that Chris or Arved has compiled and made
} available at <http://pudge.net/mmp>, and it isn't in biggapl, you're
} out of luck.  With the cfm68k version, you can use any shared library
} available (well, a few of them don't work as I recall because of bugs
} in the 68k side of things), including GD.

One thing I forgot to say, there are some 68k Macs where the CFM68k
extension doesn't work, and you have no choice about this.  Any 68030
or 68040 should work, I think, but I'm not so sure about the 68020
machines.

The bigappl version should also be slightly faster, but if you're
using a 68k machine these days, you're not interested in speed :-)
(saying this as the owner of a Powerbook 165 that's going to be
replaced before the end of the year).

-- 
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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