[Genquire-users] Fwd: Aqua Tcl/Tk

[David Block]

Attention Mac OS X users:

Here, at long last, is what all you Mac/Perl-heads have been waiting 
for.  The instructions to get Perl/Tk running on OS X.  I now have 
Genquire on my TiBook and I am very happy with it.

Note to developers- mac users make up a sizable percentage of your 
client base and are ignored at your peril - cf. AceDB!

:)
Dave

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Michaud
> Date: Sun Feb 10, 2002  09:02:57  PM US/Pacific
> To: David Block <dblock@gnf.org>
> Subject: Re: Aqua Tcl/Tk
>
> Dave:
>
> Still interested in the solution to this?
>
> We've solved it!  The problem is that Apple's Perl installation has a
> default setting for the cc command's code optimizer -- this seems to 
> break
> Perl Tk in particular.  The solution is to basically set the Config.pm 
> file
> to disable the optimizer.  I have Steve Lidie to thank for this.
>
> If you have the time to tell me about your experience in Java - I'm 
> looking
> to pick it up soon.
>
>
>
> Here are the instructions:
>
> 1) Fetch and install XFree86 4.2.0 (includes XDarwin 1.1).
>
>     http://www.xdarwin.org/
>
> 2) Apple's Perl 5.6.0 is already there, w/o threads, and hasn't
> changed since Sep 2001.
>
> 3) Install the Developer package so cc et.al. are available (228 MB).
>
> 4) Install the modified dynamic loader per:
>
>     http://www.Lehigh.EDU/~sol0/Macintosh/X/ptk/dyld-tk/
>
> 5) su - (su to root).  If this fails you may need to enable this through
> netinfo manager.  If your not sure how to do this, let me know.
>
> 6) If you are using tcsh: setenv DYLD_ALLOW_MULTISYMS
>
> 7) Edit the /System/Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm file.
>
> Change the line that contains the statement:
>
> optimize = '-O3'
>
> to:
>
> optimize = ''
>
>
> localhost% diff Config.pm~ Config.pm
> 664c664
> < optimize='-O3'
> ---
>> optimize='-g'
>
> 8) Download Tk800.023.tar.gz from cpan.  Unzip and untar it.
> cd Tk800.023
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> 9) Test by running widget.
>
> Let me know if you have troubles.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick
>
> on 2/4/02 11:23 AM, David Block at dblock@gnf.org wrote:
>
>> Thanks for remembering.  'twill be a good day when it works.  Until
>> then, I have been turned into a Java programmer (for the gui, 
>> anyway) :(
>>
>> Dave
>> On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 07:43  PM, Richard Michaud wrote:
>>
>>> David:
>>>
>>> I haven't forgotton you.  I'm trying to get some action on this so we
>>> can
>>> make our apps work on OS X.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>>> From: Richard Michaud <rmichaud@optonline.net>
>>>> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 23:36:02 -0500
>>>> To: David Block <dblock@gnf.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: Aqua Tcl/Tk
>>>>
>>>> I have several Perl/Tk tools in Windows 2000/XP, but nothing on Mac 
>>>> OS
>>>> X...I
>>>> would take the time to attempt to compile Perl/Tk, but I've been busy
>>>> and
>>>> somewhat preoccupied...
>>>>
>>>> I haven't been very enthusiastic about the results other developers
>>>> have
>>>> gotten at attempting to port the code.  I've seen many messages with
>>>> linker
>>>> issues preventing further work.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I can't be much more help.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Rick
>>>>
>>>> on 12/5/01 7:06 PM, David Block at dblock@gnf.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rick:
>>>>> I'm the other guy who posted to macosx@perl.org about Tk.  I too
>>>>> have a
>>>>> perl/Tk app that I want to run on my Mac (and others' Macs).  Do you
>>>>> have something running?  I'm feeling pretty helpless, since perl
>>>>> -MCPAN
>>>>> -e shell \n
>>>>> install Tk\n
>>>>> doesn't work :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for anything!
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> David Block          (858)812-1513
>>>>> Bioinformatics        http://www.gnf.org
>>>>> dblock@gnf.org        Just ridin' the Coaster...
>>>>>
>>>
>>> ------ End of Forwarded Message
>>>
>>>
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David Block          (858)812-1513
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>>
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