>To: Jouke Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: wxPerl on the Mac; was: [wxperl-users] Re: problems with wxPerl >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:08:19 +0100 > >Hello, > >I'm crossposting this reply to the macosx-perl mailing list because >there is some interest, too.
Actually I forgot to put the macosx-perl adress on it. >At 14:02 Uhr +0200 24.9.2001, Jouke Visser wrote: >>I wondered if anyone yet tried to compile wxPerl on a Mac. If not, I'd >>like to ask around a bit at the guys doing MacPerl because this would >>*really* be the big pro for wxPerl compared to Tk. wxWindows itself is >>ported to the Mac, so I think in theory it should be possible. > >I have written to this (wxperl-users ) list on 14 Sept, and Mattia >Barbon replied to me (for some reason he didn't send a copy to the >list) that it should not be too hard to port it to MacOSX but that >it will take some work, and he hasn't a Mac so only can help with >advice (he didn't say something about MacOS8/9, but I think this >would be a bit harder because MacPerl is quite different from Unix >perl, and the latest stable MacPerl version is also 5.004!, so maybe >that could be a problem). > >We need to write a Gui for the Macs, but haven't decided yet whether >to use Perl+wxPerl or Perl+Carbon or C++ (maybe Metrowerks >Powerplant). If we decide (within the next week or two) to use >wxPerl, we'll be glad to work together in some form. I've already >got an offer for some help from someone on the macosx-perl-list. > > >I think the following has to be worked out: >(at least for me, maybe others have more experience i.e. with Perl on MacOSX) > >MacOSX: >- get wxWindows to install and work. > Mattia writes: > wxWindows on MacOS X is still not as stable as the Windows/GTK > ports, though it is progressing steadily, and the developers are > generally very responsive WRT bugreports; on MacOS 9 it should > be pretty stable though > Also quoting Mattia, we should use the the wxWindows' developement > branch ( 2.3.1 ), or the CVS head. > (The guys maintaining the MacOSX version of wxWindows seem to be from > switzerland, that may be some benefit for me.) >- find out how to compile perl modules on MacOSX (GCC, Development >tools CD?, ...) >- try to compile wxperl - find out why it doesn't - figure out how >wxWindows works and which bindings wxPerl provides, so how to solve >some platform specific quirks (hopefully not?). Maybe talk with the >wxWindows-MacOSX guys if necessary. > >MacOS8/9: >- get wxWindows installed >- get CodeWarrior (I have an old (~2y) version that's probably outdated) >- find out how to write interfaces for MacPerl. AFAIK, this works >somewhat differently than the usual xs approach (Chris Nandor aka >Pudge has written some MacPerl modules, I'm sure looking at his >materials will help. I've also seen him in #macperl on irc.) >- do the necessary stuff to get wxPerl compiled. >- maybe find out why it doesn't - same thing as above. >(- find out how well MacPerl works as a background application.-> >for our purpose) > >(I mainly have experience with Perl on Linux, and some C and C++ >background. I used MacPerl before I converted to linux some years >ago. I haven't used MacOSX much yet.) >We (my project partners and I) primarily need the MacOSX version, so >wxPerl-MacOS8/9 doesn't have a high priority for us. We would need >the MacOSX version at the latest by the end of october (november >24th our app has to be ready). > >Jouke, have you got any reply from the MacPerl guys? Would you be >interested in the MacOSX version? > >Christian. PS. Jouke replied that he is very interested but does have no Mac nor C experience. I really hope I can get some more people to work on it, either the programmers I'd like to hire here in switzerland (for some unknown reason I can't get in touch with them currently), or someone over the net, I just don't have enough time to do it all myself for the moment. Christian.
