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pilotbob · 11-11-2008, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AZed

I'd be very curious to hear what problems you were having with Perl on Mac. ActiveState Perl has a single-dmg Mac installer that should get you core perl with no trouble, and after that it's just a matter of getting the right PPM repositories installed.

I found I had to get, compile and install libgd in order to install the GD perl package. Is this not the case if you use ActiveState perl?

BOb

pilotbob · 11-11-2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Great! I'll have to keep watching this thread. Tiger (my desktop here) didn't have the up to date version of Perl. I guess I should try the ActiveState dmg. I just took the instructs at the top of this thread and said something like "update" ..... it kept going for a few hours, and finally quit with a non-success message. Some piece wasn't findable.

Yeah -- the proposed new macbook would be Leopard. That alone might help!

WOW... Deb... I just got this working. Took a while... believe me. I will be writing up the steps to do it soon. I think the biggest issue is that you need to install libgd which wasn't installed on my Mac. I am wondering it if is part of the optional dev tools. I will check that next. Other than that it needs to be downloaded, compiled and installed. If you don't do this you can install the GD perl module.

BOb

vinothjaguva · 11-12-2008, 01:32 AM

Hi

The mopipocket reader does not support small-caps output. How i can solve this

AZed · 11-12-2008, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

I found I had to get, compile and install libgd in order to install the GD perl package. Is this not the case if you use ActiveState perl?

BOb

Well, you definitely don't on the MS Windows side of things. I haven't tested it on a Mac, specifically. There are huge repositories of pre-compiled packages for ActiveState (and any other Perl that supports the PPM format, for that matter, though I think the only other one is StrawberryPerl), and that's what I use. I don't even have a functioning compiling environment set up at the moment on my Windows box, but GTK works fine.

tompe · 11-12-2008, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by AZed

Well, you definitely don't on the MS Windows side of things. I haven't tested it on a Mac, specifically. There are huge repositories of pre-compiled packages for ActiveState (and any other Perl that supports the PPM format, for that matter, though I think the only other one is StrawberryPerl), and that's what I use. I don't even have a functioning compiling environment set up at the moment on my Windows box, but GTK works fine.

The only issue I remember for ActiveState Perl was that the GD package had to be taken from another place than the main archive.

pilotbob · 11-12-2008, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by tompe

The only issue I remember for ActiveState Perl was that the GD package had to be taken from another place than the main archive.

All I know was that when I tried to install the GD perl libray with CPAN I got an error that libgd did not exist. You could compile with -ignore_missing_gd but I wasn't sure if that would work... also, I couldn't figure out how to pass that to the install in CPAN. It just seemed to ignore it.

Once I installed and complied libgd on my Mac I was able to install the Perl GD module without error.

The hard part about getting this to work was figure out where to get everything and the dependecies.

tome... do you know if installing the GD library with the -ignore_missing_gd flag would work for your mobiperl stuff?

BOb

pilotbob · 11-12-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by AZed

Well, you definitely don't on the MS Windows side of things. I haven't tested it on a Mac, specifically.

I assume that the perl GD module for windows uses Windows 32 libraries, perhaps GDI to do the graphics handling which is of course already installed on every windows machine. So, this makes sense.

I certainly want to supply the minimal amount of steps to people to get this working on mac. If I can skip the installing of libgd I certainly would.

BOb

AZed · 11-12-2008, 11:38 AM

Does the Mac ActiveState Perl also have PPM repositories at Bribes/Trouchelle/UWinnipeg? I never even got CPAN to work at all on the MS Windows ActiveState Perl (it seems to have a broken YAML) -- I just added all of the extra repositories to the PPM manager, and then installed what I needed precompiled.

pilotbob · 11-12-2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AZed

Does the Mac ActiveState Perl also have PPM repositories at Bribes/Trouchelle/UWinnipeg? I never even got CPAN to work at all on the MS Windows ActiveState Perl (it seems to have a broken YAML) -- I just added all of the extra repositories to the PPM manager, and then installed what I needed precompiled.

I don't know. I never actually tried ActiveState. That was my next plan if installing libgd didn't resolve my issue. But, since it did I just through the ActiveState dmg into the trash and went to bed.

BOb

tompe · 11-13-2008, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

tome... do you know if installing the GD library with the -ignore_missing_gd flag would work for your mobiperl stuff?

I have not tested this but I would not think so since the library is used to rescale images.

pilotbob · 11-13-2008, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by tompe

I have not tested this but I would not think so since the library is used to rescale images.

Thanks... that's what I figured.

BOb

badgoodDeb · 11-14-2008, 05:24 PM

I will be holding my breath for your MobiPerl instructions, PilotBob. I thought I was semi-savvy, but after using the install package for ActivePerl --- I don't know where to go from here. I can't even type "ppm" at a command line, to add the Palm module -- cause it doesn't recognize "ppm" or "PPM". So I'm at a loss where to go from here!

Thanks for your (eventual) help!

AZed · 11-14-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I will be holding my breath for your MobiPerl instructions, PilotBob. I thought I was semi-savvy, but after using the install package for ActivePerl --- I don't know where to go from here. I can't even type "ppm" at a command line, to add the Palm module -- cause it doesn't recognize "ppm" or "PPM". So I'm at a loss where to go from here! :blink

That's... interesting. Did the installer create an icon for something named "Package Manager" or similar?

pilotbob · 11-14-2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I will be holding my breath for your MobiPerl instructions, PilotBob. I thought I was semi-savvy, but after using the install package for ActivePerl --- I don't know where to go from here. I can't even type "ppm" at a command line, to add the Palm module -- cause it doesn't recognize "ppm" or "PPM". So I'm at a loss where to go from here!

Thanks for your (eventual) help!

If your avatars would stop distracting me I would get right to it.

I will certainly do it this weekend... probably tomorrow. You can go ahead and remove ActiveState perl because my instructions don't use it... the built in perl for darwin works fine.

BOb

pilotbob · 11-14-2008, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by tompe

I have not tested this but I would not think so since the library is used to rescale images.

Does it need to support jpeg?

BOb

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11-12-2008, 01:32 AM	#618
vinothjaguva Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: SONY	Hi The mopipocket reader does not support small-caps output. How i can solve this

11-12-2008, 11:38 AM	#623
AZed Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 307 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: PalmOS PDA	Does the Mac ActiveState Perl also have PPM repositories at Bribes/Trouchelle/UWinnipeg? I never even got CPAN to work at all on the MS Windows ActiveState Perl (it seems to have a broken YAML) -- I just added all of the extra repositories to the PPM manager, and then installed what I needed precompiled.

11-14-2008, 05:24 PM	#627
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I will be holding my breath for your MobiPerl instructions, PilotBob. I thought I was semi-savvy, but after using the install package for ActivePerl --- I don't know where to go from here. I can't even type "ppm" at a command line, to add the Palm module -- cause it doesn't recognize "ppm" or "PPM". So I'm at a loss where to go from here! Thanks for your (eventual) help!