Clive Eisen wrote:
Has anyone successfully built a 64 bit perl on OSX? I've tried and I
get just over 1000 errors on make test -
all relate to loading XS stuff and getting a wrong architecture error.
All I did (to be fair) was ./Configure -Dcc='cc -m64' -des
make && make test
If anyone has the magic incantation to build a 64bit perl so I can
build DBD::Informix against the 64bit SDK that would be great.
TIA
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Clive
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I have solved the problem - so for
anyone else here goes
#First download perl source - I used 5.10.0
#untar or unzip as required
#cd into the perlsourcedir/hints and
rm -f darwin.sh
#then
rsync rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/hints/darwin.sh .
#This gets the bleeding edge darwin hints file that finally supports a
64 bit build on OSX
cd ..
./Configure -Dcc='cc -m64' -Duse64bitall -des
make && make test && make install
#Now you have a 64bit perl in /usr/local/bin that you can link with the
64bit SDK
#Only other thing to note is that on OSX LD_LIBRARY_PATH is called
# DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
#so you will need to do the following
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql/:$INFORMIXDIR/lib/
#before running
/usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
#in the DBD::Informix source dir
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Clive
