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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. |
| 2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially | |
| 3 | designed to be readable as is. | |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME | |
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| 7 | README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) | |
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9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
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| 11 | This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). | |
| 12 | If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be | |
| 13 | here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X). | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean pre-Mac OS X, which includes | |
| 16 | Mac OS 7, 8, and 9. | |
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18 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| 20 | The perl 5.6.1 source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional | |
| 21 | pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl will be | |
| 22 | able to, in the future, keep in closer sync with regular perl releases. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | At this time, though, it is very buggy, and is under development. An | |
| 25 | alpha release is coming very soon. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition | |
| 28 | of the "macos" subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra | |
| 29 | source files, config files, and make files. It also includes a lot of | |
| 30 | extra Mac-specific modules. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the "macperl" | |
| 33 | directory, which includes the source files for creating the | |
| 34 | application itself. | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | All of this is also available from the SourceForge site, via | |
| 37 | HTTP, FTP, and anonymous CVS. | |
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| 39 | http://macperl.sourceforge.net/ | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely | |
| 42 | available. These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site | |
| 43 | for all things having to do with MacPerl development. | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It | |
| 46 | is based on perl 5.004. | |
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48 | =head1 AUTHOR |
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| 50 | perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher | |
| 51 | E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. It is currently maintained by Chris | |
| 52 | Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>. | |
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54 | =head1 DATE |
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| 56 | Last modified 2001.04.05. |