[MacPerl] Re: [MacPerl-Modules] questions regarding standard .zip filemanipulation on the Mac

["Scott R. Godin" <mactech@webdragon.net>]

on 11/07/2000 08:23 PM, Arved Sandstrom at Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
>>> Anyone who can assist with porting Compress::Zlib for Chris's Mac Perl
>>> Porters page should contact him immediately.
>>> 
>>> ...and then let me know that you're on the case so I can stop worrying :)
>> 
>> I have made an attempt to build the library for Compress::Zlib 1.08
>> with MPW and failed. MPW finds fatal errors in zlib.h.
>> 
>> It seems that on Unix 'zlib.h' and 'zconf.h' are resident as part of
>> the system, but they are not part of MPW of course. A quick net trawl
>> turned up two quite different versions of zlib.h.
>> 
>> This looks to be a difficult XS to build. I don't know what to do
>> next. Any suggestions Arved?
>> 
>> Alan Fry

> Hi, Alan (and others)
> 
> Yes, oddly enough I am still here, and occasionally I even read the mail on
> this list. Very fortuitous that I caught this one. :-)
> 
> I've not been using MacOS very much at all this year - I've been Mr Linux.
> However, I have a long weekend coming up and I can take a look at this. No
> promises but I'll note it, and give it my best shot.
> 
> Regards, Arved

were you able to have any luck with this one ? haven't heard a peep since,
and I could really use this pup for some things I'm working on. I suppose I
could play with it on the shell but that's far less rewarding and a pain to
upload/test/ul/test/ul/test/ul/test all the time. :)


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