On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
1. Is CamelBones the only option for developing a native Perl GUI
on OS X? Does anyone use wxPerl, or Tcl::Tk (to get access to
native Aqua Tk)? I'm not interested in Perl/Tk because it's X11-based.
It's the only option *I* use. But I'm a bit biased. :-)
2. What options are available for deploying Perl applications as
standalone app bundles with all frameworks/libraries shipped with
the app? Is there a tool like py2app (Python) for Perl? I know
about tools such as PAR and perl2exe, but I don't know how these
translate into Mac app deployment.
As of CamelBones 1.0.1, the PAR module and its prerequisites are
included with CamelBones - Drop a zipped .par onto your project.
It'll be copied into your app's Resources/ subdirectory automatically
- Xcode's default for file types it doesn't know about.
Then, in your main.pl:
BEGIN {
use CamelBones qw(:All);
my $resDir = NSBundle->mainBundle()->resourcePath();
eval "use PAR '$resDir/*.par'";
}
PARs with XS modules can be complicated to create for Mac OS X -
you'll need version and arch-specific subdirectories for the 5.8.1
and 5.8.6 (universal) Perls in Panther and Tiger, depending on what
OS version(s) you want to support. Prebuilt PARs for some of the most
commonly-used XS modules are included in /Developer/CamelBones/Modules/.
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