PERLMACOS

PERLMACOS

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR DATE

NAME

README .macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)

SYNOPSIS

This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X).

When we say ``Mac OS '' below, we mean pre-Mac OS X, which includes Mac OS 7, 8, and 9.

DESCRIPTION

The perl 5.6.1 source itself builds on Mac OS , with some additional pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and !MacPerl? will be able to, in the future, keep in closer sync with regular perl releases.

At this time, though, it is very buggy, and is under development. An alpha release is coming very soon.

To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition of the ``macos'' subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra source files, config files, and make files. It also includes a lot of extra Mac-specific modules.

To build the !MacPerl? application, you will also need the ``macperl'' directory, which includes the source files for creating the application itself.

All of this is also available from the !SourceForge? site, via HTTP , FTP , and anonymous CVS .

http://macperl.sourceforge.net/

You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely available. These are linked to from the !SourceForge? site. Go that site for all things having to do with !MacPerl? development.

MacPerl? 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and

on !SourceForge?. It is based on perl 5.004.

AUTHOR

perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher

DATE

Last modified 2001.04.05.