on 12/2/2001 3:34 PM, Keary Suska at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The bad news is that you will have to port the code to the Mac, unless > someone already has. This might not be too difficult under OS X, but since > you say, "building... something I fail to understand completely" I assume > that modifying the source code to compile under Mac OS for MacPerl (as > opposed to OS X for Perl) would not be an option for you. Have you checked > to see if GD has been ported? It is much more widely used, I think, and may > have a greater chance of already being ported.
GD.pm has been ported to Mac OS. It was included as part of the standard MacPerl distribution for 5.2.0r4, but not the 5.6.1 development versions, IIRC. For information on the library itself, you might try http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/ Of course, check out CPAN too. Regards, David > > Keary Suska > Esoteritech, Inc. > "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet" > >> From: - JoVo - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:23:58 -0400 >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [MacPerl] Help with Fly >> >> I'm trying to make Fly work for my website, <http://jovo.cc>, but I have no >> idea what to do with the file I have. >> >> I'm working with the fly source code from the following page: >> <http://martin.gleeson.com/fly/installation.html>. >> >> The instructions to make fly work, which I have obtained from the following >> site, <ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/CPAN/modules/INSTALL.html>, speak of >> building... something I fail to understand completely. >> >> Additionally, it speaks of installation. Where am I supposed to install it? >> It's supposed to go on a website, not my computer. The documentation also >> says I am to type: >> >> #!perl -w >> use AutoSplit; >> my $dir = "${MACPERL}site_perl"; >> autosplit("$dir:Some:Module.pm", "$dir:auto", 0, 1, 1); >> >> I don't even know *where* I am supposed to do this. >> >> So, I come to you for help. I hope that one of you can help me find a way to >> make the counter, which I have obtained from >> <http://www.md-sites.com/scripts/graphical_counter.html>, work. Thank you >> for your time. >> >> - JoVo - >>
