PERLMACOS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLMACOS(1)NAME
README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
SYNOPSIS
This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Clas
sic). 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 sep
arately. It includes extra source files, config files,
and make files. It also includes a lot of extra Mac-spe
cific 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 Source
Forge site. Go that site for all things having to do with
MacPerl development.
MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on Source
Forge. It is based on perl 5.004.
AUTHOR
perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher <neer
acher@mac.com>. It is currently maintained by Chris Nan
dor <pudge@pobox.com>.
DATE
Last modified 2001.04.05.
2001-03-03 perl v5.6.1 PERLMACOS(1)
