Re: [MacPerl] Runtime Builder

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

[ This was private mail, and Matthew gave me permission to reply to the list. ]

At 15.06 -0400 1999.07.07, Matthew Langford wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>> RuntimeBuilder creates runtimes, not droplets.
>
>Pardon my ignorance:  what's the difference?

A droplet is a small executable Mac app that calls the MacPerl program to
execute the Perl script embedded in it.  A runtime is a slarge executable
Mac app that calls _itself_ to execute the Perl script embedded in it.
Runtimes don't (in theory :) need a MacPerl installation in order to work.
Droplets do.

The two times (that I can think of) to use a runtime are when you are
distributing to someone who does not have MacPerl installed (such as Apple
did with Carbon Dater), or when you want to have a MacPerl program run
persistently while you use MacPerl for other things, too.  For instance, I
made my mp3player MacPerl program into a runtime, so I could use MacPerl
while I played MP3 files in the runtime.


>> I don't know offhand ... I thought maybe the last version of RuntimeBuilder
>> would have gotten those files all for you, but you could give it a try.
>> Was it a dynaloader error?  If so, you need to get the file
>> :LIB:ARCH:auto:IO:File:File (where ARCH is MacPPC or MacCFM68K, and LIB is
>> probably lib or site_perl).  You'd also need
>> :LIB:ARCH:auto:Text:CSV_XS:CSV_XS.
>
>Yeah.  I read an old message on the list where you suggested that someone
>duplicate the folder structure with the necessary files.  I did that;
>mostly all that was necessary was creating a lib and site_perl and
>dropping in whatever the runtime complained about.

Good, so it works now?


>Haven't you used CSV_XS?

Hm.  Kinda.  :)  I built and tested it (running the tests it comes with)
and distribute it, but I don't use it.


>I'm having problems with it, specifically
>getline() always fails.  I am using 'binary' => 1, and also using
>different quote chars and sep chars.  (I know these are correct for this
>file.)
>
>The original file has DOS line endings, but I've tried converting it to
>Mac line endings and tried using the 'eol' option.  Neither worked.
>
>I would like to debug it with print statements, but getline() seems to be
>all or nothing. Since this is a binary file (ie, it contains embedded
>linebreaks), manually reading a line and passing it to parse() and
>fields() won't work.
>
>I guess I'll have to hardcode the input file (I was using ARGV and
>dropping) and use the debugger.  The debugger doesn't work so well in the
>runtime.  :)  And I'm not very comfortable with the Perl debugger.

As I haven't really used Text::CSV_XS, nothing jumps out at me as being
helpful to you.  Maybe someone else can help.

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