On 7/31/2010 4:49 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:40 PM, P Kishor<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Kenworthy >>> Whoa. I've *never* read any source install where the first step is >>> 'install gcc'! >>> >>> Assuming gcc and make are available is considered pretty safe with linux. >> >> Not on a Mac though. You need to install Xcode in order to get gcc on >> a Mac. So, you can install binary applications (for example, one-click >> SciPDL or whatever it might be called in the future) on a Mac without >> Xcode, but in order to install anything, no matter how simple, via >> cpan, you do need to install Xcode first. > > Very true. > > And let's not forget about Windows. I don't know what you need to do > on Windows to setup a build environment, but I'll bet that it is more > involved than "yum install gcc make glibc-devel".
I'm testing with Strawberry Perl Portable which not only runs from a local folder (or on a pen drive) rather than requiring a full install, but also includes the MinGW gcc and dmake stuff as well as ppm and cpan shell support---by default. --Chris _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
