At 11:17 Uhr -0500 25.11.2001, Chris Nandor wrote: >At 07:44 -0800 2001.11.25, Adam Russell wrote: >>So, to be perfectly clear when someone reads an archived copy of this(>:), >>there is no way to express the time in milliseconds in versions of Macperl >>earlier than 5.6.1 ? > >There could be. Someone could build Time::HiRes for earlier versions. >There's also TickCount() in Mac::Events, which is not milliseconds, but >1/60 seconds, and is time since the system's startup; that may or may not >be sufficient to your needs. There may be other ways, too. >
I've tried to build Time::HiRes for MacPerl 5.2.0r4 yesterday, but to no avail (both Time::HiRes 1.02 and 1.20 versions, which are on CPAN). The problem is, that one will need the usleep(), ualarm() and gettimeofday() routines (if I've got that right). Only usleep() is in the PerlStub lib, the other two are in GUSI 1. However, the GUSI 1 libs are for the Codewarrior compilers only, and cannot be used with the Apple compilers. And I don't own Codewarrior. If someone wants to build Time::HiRes for MacPerl 5.2.0r4, he/she should take a look at the HiRes.xs file which comes with MacPerl 5.6.1. Chris has made some changes for Mac OS, which, on a first glance, should be suitable for the old MacPerl, too. But maybe it's easier, when Adam upgrades to MacPerl 5.6.1? ;-) Best regards, --Thomas _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
