On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:18:10PM -0400, Sherm Pendley wrote: > On Oct 11, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Pawe?? Matykiewicz wrote: > > >if You use "gcc -arch ppc64" then You can compile C in 64-bit mode ( > >sizeof ( int * ) == 8 ). But what about Perl 5.8.6 ? > > You'd have to build your own - the Perl supplied with the OS is 32-bit.
Dominic Dunlop supplied some hints changes for 64 bit compilation in June 2005, which will be in 5.8.8, which I hope to release within a month. I've not tried to get 5.8.7 (or 5.8.6) building 64 bit on OS X 10.4, but I assume that as supplied it will not work (don't have access right now to 10.4) You might manage getting 5.8.6 or 5.8.7 to build 64 bit from source by replacing the supplied hints/darwin.sh with the current version at: http://mirrors.develooper.com/perl/APC/perl-5.8.x/hints/darwin.sh before running Configure. But if that doesn't work you'll need to wait for 5.8.8 Nicholas Clark
