porting tips site

2001-04-09 Thread Randal Cox
In an effort to organize my own notes, I've been consolidating some of the tips I've used to port things to OSX into a single web site. There is a large emphasis on Perl modules and the libraries needed for them. I thought it might have sufficient general appeal, that I'm posting it for comm

Re: BBEdit and OS X perl works great

2001-04-06 Thread Randal Cox
> This does the job fine until the REAL BBEdit for OS X released ; ) In the meantime, Pepper already runs native and supports execution of command line scripts directly. OK. OK, I'm inciting an editor war

Re: Perl and Tk on Mac OS X

2001-04-04 Thread Randal Cox
ry path specified. Can you share the make results with us? On Tuesday, April 3, 2001, at 09:05 PM, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: ------- Randal Cox, Ph.D., Mac OSX Guru at Integrated Genomics Office: 312-491-0846 x 228 Cell: 312-320-9814 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openfile

2001-04-01 Thread Randal Cox
> > I don't see what advantage this has over OS X's built-in "open" > command. Typing > > % open -a /Applications/Foobar myfile > > will open myfile using application Foobar (assuming > "/Applications/Foobar" is a valid path to the binary). > > I didn't know! Thanks... Randal

openfile

2001-04-01 Thread Randal Cox
Thought this might have general appeal for those working on hard on editing all those makefiles. openfile (http://www.particle.clara.co.uk/macosx/) will open a file from the command line in what ever Cocoa app you specify. I have set it up to use Pepper and just type openfile makefile and it

forward from macperl mailing list

2001-04-01 Thread Randal Cox
Just thought everyone on this list should see this posting. It can really make those perl scripts sing under OSX - like making the droplets we had before undeor OS9. Randal Cox From: Wilfredo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Mar 29, 2001 10:31:45 PM US/Central To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Perl IDE for OS X?

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
> ok question > > > how do i get a perl script to run in pepper? > > I just tried via the menu and it says "codewarrior not running" > so i take it that menu is not it ; ) (top right) > This menu ONLY runs CodeWarrior. However, the Extensions Menu is accessible for our needs. Pepper will exec

Re: Perl IDE for OS X?

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
> Oh, puh-lease. > Real Programmers use vi. > ;-) ;-) ;-) > > Bohdan > > PS - Remember that book "Real men don't eat quiche"? I should write one > "Real programmers don't use IDE." > > (we use hexadecimal keypads with 2 digit LED displays!) > LOL! > At the risk of continuing

Re: Perl IDE for OS X?

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
> I am quite enamored with Pepper. (http://www.hekkelman.com).  > Randal > > Hmmm i tried it but it kept crashing and doing other strange things. > Maybe i didn't set it up right?   It's been stable in my hands. Perhaps you got an early copy. Give it another try. I'm just ecstatic to get a dec

Re: gd-2.0.0 compile problems

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 08:32 AM, System Administrator wrote: > I'm trying to compile gd-2.0.0b and I get this error: > > ld: unknown flag: -shared > > Tom Boutell's Makefile says this: > > "#Shared library. This should work fine on any ELF platform (Linux, > etc.) with > #GNU ld or

Re: resources for porting

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
> you said you can compile zlib. I can, but make test issues errors. Does yours? If yours doesn't, can you tell me exactly what you did? > But I'm having trouble getting Lincoln Stein's GD.pm to install. I've > tried > using cpan.pm to do it and I've tried 'make' from the command line but I

Re: Perl IDE for OS X?

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 02:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use mac perl and BBEdit and i love it ; ) > > Is there an IDE for os x? If not can everyone explain to me their > set up? I am quite enamored with Pepper. (http://www.hekkelman.com). It runs native under OSX and unders

Re: OS X resources?

2001-03-30 Thread Randal Cox
> Have you installed GD.pm, Adam? I'm getting errors from both my manual > installation and when using CPAN. I've installed the supporting > libraries > and all seemed to go well there. > > Here's what happens: > > DELETED STUFF > I see these things in th

resources for porting

2001-03-29 Thread Randal Cox
ported libraries and headers along with a simple install.sh script). Randal Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]