X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/ee94f8101362ee382e42ec2d404d79b0ab7d17ef..b49055e966b614a7aa5d3eda7075ca3262694b6f:/README.macosx diff --git a/README.macosx b/README.macosx index 235618a..0501b1f 100644 --- a/README.macosx +++ b/README.macosx @@ -4,18 +4,29 @@ designed to be readable as is. =head1 NAME -README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X +perlmacosx - Perl under Mac OS X =head1 SYNOPSIS -This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS X. +This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X. + curl http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.12.3.tar.gz > perl-5.12.3.tar.gz + tar -xzf perl-5.12.3.tar.gz + cd perl-5.12.3 + ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local/ + make + make test + sudo make install =head1 DESCRIPTION -The latest Perl release (5.8.8 as of this writing) builds without changes -under Mac OS X. Under 10.3 "Panther" and newer OS versions, all self-tests -pass, and all standard features are supported. +The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes +under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. + +In order to build your own version of Perl you will need 'make' +this is part of the Apples developer tools (you only need the 'unix tools'), +usually supplied with Mac OS install DVDs. You do not need the latest +version of Xcode (which is now charged for) in order to install make. Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also, @@ -69,6 +80,12 @@ for creating a universal binary: -Aldflags="-arch i686 -arch ppc -Wl,-syslibroot,$SDK" \ -de +In Leopard (MacOSX 10.5.6 at the time of this writing) you must use the 10.5 SDK: + + export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk + +You can use the same compiler flags you would use with the 10.4u SDK. + Keep in mind that these compiler and linker settings will also be used when building CPAN modules. For XS modules to be compiled as a universal binary, any libraries it links to must also be universal binaries. The system libraries that @@ -87,7 +104,7 @@ omitted or buggy. Note the messages output by F for further information. Please use C to submit a problem report in the event that you encounter difficulties. -When building 64-bit modules, it is your responsiblity to ensure that linked +When building 64-bit modules, it is your responsibility to ensure that linked external libraries and frameworks provide 64-bit support: if they do not, module building may appear to succeed, but attempts to use the module will result in run-time dynamic linking errors, and subsequent test failures. @@ -119,7 +136,7 @@ need to go to a great deal of effort to obtain the information needed for pre-binding. You can override the default and build a shared libperl if you wish -(S), but the load time on pre-10.4 OS +(S), but the load time on pre-10.4 OS releases will be greater than either the static library, or Apple's pre-bound dynamic library. @@ -173,35 +190,10 @@ but remember that there's a startup cost to pay in that case (see above Starting with Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), Apple shipped broken locale files for the eu_ES locale (Basque-Spain). In previous releases of Perl, this resulted in -failures in the C test. These failures have been supressed +failures in the F test. These failures have been suppressed in the current release of Perl by making the test ignore the broken locale. If you need to use the eu_ES locale, you should contact Apple support. -=head2 MacPerl - -Quite a bit has been written about MacPerl, the Perl distribution for -"Classic MacOS" - that is, versions 9 and earlier of MacOS. Because it -runs in environment that's very different from that of UNIX, many things -are done differently in MacPerl. Modules are installed using a different -procedure, Perl itself is built differently, path names are different, -etc. - -From the perspective of a Perl programmer, Mac OS X is more like a -traditional UNIX than Classic MacOS. If you find documentation that -refers to a special procedure that's needed for MacOS that's drastically -different from the instructions provided for UNIX, the MacOS -instructions are quite often intended for MacPerl on Classic MacOS. In -that case, the correct procedure on Mac OS X is usually to follow the -UNIX instructions, rather than the MacPerl instructions. - - -=head2 Carbon - -MacPerl ships with a number of modules that are used to access the -classic MacOS toolbox. Many of these modules have been updated to use -Mac OS X's newer "Carbon" toolbox, and are available from CPAN in the -"Mac::Carbon" module. - =head2 Cocoa @@ -243,7 +235,7 @@ You can find them for example by After this you can either copy Perl from your operating system media (you will need at least the /System/Library/Perl and /usr/bin/perl), or rebuild Perl from the source code with C NOTE: the C<-Dprefix=/usr> to replace the system Perl +-Duseshrplib> NOTE: the C<-Dprefix=/usr> to replace the system Perl works much better with Perl 5.8.1 and later, in Perl 5.8.0 the settings were not quite right.