>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
Actually, I just threw up my hands and decided to implement the whole
shebang(awful pun intended!!) on OS X. While I posess CodeWarrior I have never gotten
GUSI implemented properly and decided that in the long run that the OS X environment
was better for what I was doing anyway.
Best Regards,
Adam
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