Re: Configuring Mac OS X to Install Perl Modules

[syphilis]

Note: For some reason, you need a C compiler to run Makefile.pl and some other stuff

Just a minor correction to that. You don't need a C compiler to run Makefile.PL. (Admittedly, some Makefile.PL's will check that you have a working C compiler and terminate if it can't be found.) But you will need a C compiler to perform any compilations that may be needed during the 'make' phase of the build process.

Cheers,
Rob

[randyk]

I had expected that to be true as well, but when I tried installing a pure Perl module on a Mac OS X, I found that with the default installation the error

make: *** No rule to make target 
`/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h',
+  needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

arose. This was fixed by installing the Xcode package, which contains the C compiler.

[jhourcle]

Xcode contains more than just a compiler. In fact, if you just installed GCC, it wouldn't work.

The actual item needed is the 'BSD Subsystem', which contains the necessary header files.

[syphilis]

Is that the output from running the Makefile.PL ?

It looks to me more like something you would get from running 'make' ... when the build of perl doesn't include config.h (as is often the case with non-devel perl installations on nix-like systems).

But I don't have Mac OS X, so I should really just shut up. (Besides, I think I might have shifted from trying to make minor corrections, to trying to split hairs :-)

Cheers,
Rob