On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Gavin Brock wrote:
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
Mac::Glue and Mac::Carbon are again based on Carbon, and won't work in
64-bit.
Though I haven't used it myself, "use Foundation;" will load in the
PerlObjCBridge module (which is 64-bit) and then you can use
NSAppleScript class to run an AppleScript script (as I understand it).
Ed
