The Lehigh Link seems to have gone away. Does anyone have this archived ?
-----Original Message----- From: aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:42 AM To: MacOSX Perl Subject: Re: Perl/Tk on Mac os X I tried this out and it works great!! Thanks for all of your help. -Aaron On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:33 am, Rick Frankel wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:57:48AM -0500, aaron wrote: > > Hi All, > > Does anyone have any updated information on perl/Tk for OS X? Most of > > my stuff at work uses perl/Tk and I was over-joyed to install Tk on my > > Mac. To my chagrin it crashes exactly like described below. Is there an > > OS X -compatible version available now? Does anyone know what causes > > this problem? I'm assuming it's a C thing... > > Whoops. I guess I should have followed up on this... > > Anyway, via macintouch comes this link: > > http://www.lehigh.edu/~sol0/Macintosh/X/ptk/ > > the short of it is that -03 optimization breaks perl/tk. Here's the > relevant excerpt from the above on the solution: > > * Install the modified dynamic loader per > http://www.lehigh.edu/Macintosh/X/ptk/dyld-tk. * Now compile Tk800.023. The > caveat: you cannot use -O3, which is the default, determined from how Perl > itself was compiled. Here's the trick as described by Michael Doster (who > made the dyld mods described above): > > Under the pTk source directory edit the file Tk/MMutil.pm. > In the subroutine cflags make the following change at the end: > > $_ .= "\nOPTIMIZE=\n"; > $_; > } # end subroutine cflags. > > > BTW, personally tested and used (I can't live w/o -d:ptkdb :) > > rick
