Almost all of the Perl stuff that I’ve ever used works just fine on OS X (now macOS). I use XS modules, Perlbrew, cpan(m), etc, with no problem.
There was a recent issue with macOS Sierra (10.12, I think?), where for some reason the patchperl distribution wasn’t getting updated properly, so perlbrew didn’t work until you downloaded your own patchperl. This has, I believe, now been updated (at least, the ticket I created was closed with an explanation that it would now be fixed; I haven’t tried an install since then). There are issues that have to be dealt with out of the vanilla Perl source, this is why you need to work with patchperl. But other than that, I haven’t noticed any problems. Ricky > On May 29, 2017, at 7:02 PM, Jame Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Uri. That was what I was thinking and hoping too. However the > postings I read from the early days of OS X on doing this ran to many pages, > even aside from GUI issues. Few were dated later than 2014 making me > wonder if either > > i) It's so frustrating that people have given up trying > > or > > ii) It's become so easy lately that it's not even worth talking about. > > I fear the former on the circumstantial evidence. > > > > On 5/29/2017 5:57 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> On 05/29/2017 05:03 PM, James Eshelman wrote: >>> I’m running a perl app with its own lean and mean packaging of perl and >>> libs (to minimize portability issues) on linux and MSWin. I’d like to >>> port this whole package (i.e. the linux version + lean perl) to OS X if >>> it’s reasonable. I took a brief look at what the web has to say on the >>> subject. Overall my take from that reading is that it’s a mess and a >>> non-trivial task given the Darwin/BSD origins of OS X, compiler and ‘make’ >>> compatibility issues, differing compile-time options, etc., etc. Is >>> this a fair assessment or have I missed something? Anyone have experience >>> doing this? >>> >>> I don’t want to get many days down into a rat hole only to find that there >>> are weeks or months left to go. >>> >>> PS: Commandline + browser user interface app only, no GUI, only extremely >>> basic linux and shell features. >>> >>> >> i haven't done that but darwin and linux are unix like and much much closer >> to each other than windows. most all of cpan and perl itself should compile >> and run on darwin if it runs on linux. there are plenty of p5p people who >> use macs so it should be well supported. just my gut feeling on this. >> >> i bet some of the concerns are more to the gui side of things and that isn't >> an issue in your case. >> >> uri >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boston-pm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
