Re: [Boston.pm] Porting perl + perl app from linux to OS X?
Jame Eshelman <[email protected]>
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Thanks Uri. That was what I was thinking and hoping too. However the postings I read from the early days of OS X on doing this ran to many pages, even aside from GUI issues. Few were dated later than 2014 making me wonder if either i) It's so frustrating that people have given up trying or ii) It's become so easy lately that it's not even worth talking about. I fear the former on the circumstantial evidence. On 5/29/2017 5:57 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 05/29/2017 05:03 PM, James Eshelman wrote: >> I’m running a perl app with its own lean and mean packaging of perl >> and libs (to minimize portability issues) on linux and MSWin. I’d >> like to port this whole package (i.e. the linux version + lean perl) >> to OS X if it’s reasonable. I took a brief look at what the web has >> to say on the subject. Overall my take from that reading is that >> it’s a mess and a non-trivial task given the Darwin/BSD origins of OS >> X, compiler and ‘make’ compatibility issues, differing compile-time >> options, etc., etc. Is this a fair assessment or have I missed >> something? Anyone have experience doing this? >> >> I don’t want to get many days down into a rat hole only to find that >> there are weeks or months left to go. >> >> PS: Commandline + browser user interface app only, no GUI, only >> extremely basic linux and shell features. >> >> > i haven't done that but darwin and linux are unix like and much much > closer to each other than windows. most all of cpan and perl itself > should compile and run on darwin if it runs on linux. there are plenty > of p5p people who use macs so it should be well supported. just my gut > feeling on this. > > i bet some of the concerns are more to the gui side of things and that > isn't an issue in your case. > > uri > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm