Re: 10.6 MacPerl - no appropriate 64-bit architecture

[Gavin Brock]

On 28 Aug 2009, at 17:45, e...@apple.com wrote:

On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Gavin Brock wrote:

Anyone else seeing issues with Snow Leopard /usr/bin/perl modules  
on 64bit hardware?

/usr/bin/perl -MMacPerl -e 1
Can't load '/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0/darwin-thread- 
multi-2level/auto/MacPerl/MacPerl.bundle'
for module MacPerl:

Any insights?

Because a lot of Carbon is not available in 64-bit, and because  
MacPerl and other modules are based on Carbon, they can't be built  
64-bit.  Since perl 5.10.0 is 64-bit by default, those modules can't  
be loaded.

A 32-bit only machine will work fine, just as using the techniques  
mentioned in "man perl" for running in 32-bit mode.  However, since  
the world is moving to 64-bit, and most of SnowLeopard is already 64- 
bit, moving off of modules that depend on non-64-bit software like  
Carbon is the long term solution.

Ed

Since MacPerl is deprecated in 10.6, does anyone have a suggestion for  
an alternative way to call AppleScript from perl? The  
MacPerl::DoAppleScript was very convenient.

I believed that Mac::Glue was the popular "perly" way to call  
AppleScript, but even that claims to need "the latest Mac::Carbon  
distribution". Will that work on 64bit?

Please don't tell me I have to system("osascript", ...) ;-)

Thanks,

Gavin