David Steuber on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:26:56 -0500


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Debian to Mac OS X Culture Shock


Greetings JAPHs,

I have recently purchased a 12" PowerBook G4.  I now wish to download
and build the ming library (http://ming.sourceforge.net/) and grab the
CPAN module that is packaged in libswf-perl on Debian.

In the old days when I ran SuSE, this was no problem for me.  cpan is
easy to use.  I even compiled my own Perl.  However, on OS X the perl
libs are not where I expected them to be.  Instead of /usr/lib/perl/ver/,
they are under /System/Library/Perl/.  There is no Perl version number
in @INC at all, as shown by perl -V.

Has anyone done this, or anything like this, before?  I'm not sure what
to expect.  I am hoping to be able to do cross platform development
between Debian Linux x86 and Mac OS X, not just in Perl, but also Lisp,
C, C++, and Objective-C. (I have the X11 stuff, but I hope to go native
on OS X).

It's the getting started that is the hard part.  A pointer in the right
direction would help.

Thanks.

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