What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode?

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Re: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 03, 2022 at 07:55 UTC
unless there are ways to get these traditional *nix build tools on MacOS without invoking the heavy (GBs) penalty of the Xcode elephant There's "Xcode command-line tools" (including a compiler, Git and some other stuff; approximately 1.2GB, according to some sources on the Internet). I think you can use `sudo xcode-select --install` to install them, without getting Xcode in the process. How does one distribute a Perl application on a MacOS where Xcode is not an option, and thus it's not an option to install modules that require a regular build (C compiler, make, etc)? I think you should put Perl and all the modules in the `YourApplication.app` bundle. Then you won't have Perl and modules your user might not be able to compile as dependencies.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 03, 2022 at 16:12 UTC
Seconding the second recommendation there. That has the advantage that you can guarantee that perl will be there (I want to say I've heard rumors that it might be going away in future OS X releases), that it will be the version you want/expect (and also can target a newer perl because the stock OS' is a long in the tooth 5.18 for 10.15), and that it has the modules you want installed (possibly even going as far as to segregate those into a local::lib hierarchy just to be able to upgrade those separately). The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^2: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by perlfan (Parson) on Feb 03, 2022 at 13:52 UTC
You may be on to something...	[reply]
Re^2: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2022 at 12:58 UTC
you can try platypus from sveinbjorn.org	[reply]
Re: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 03, 2022 at 10:20 UTC
> thee (plural) Plural of "thee" is "you" or "ye". `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by Gavin (Archbishop) on Feb 03, 2022 at 10:38 UTC
There's me thinking it was Thees!	[reply]
Re^3: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by LanX (Saint) on Feb 03, 2022 at 14:01 UTC
According to this table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English#Pronouns ... ... is "you" the plural objective form of "thee". "Objective" means accusative (direct object) and dative (indirect object) collapsed to one case. `I come humbly once again to beseech thee (nominative) (accusative)` [download] Apparently "thee" was also sometimes used instead of "thou", the plural could be "ye" than. Most English speaker know these pronouns only from Bible and Shakespeare quotes and are misunderstanding them, e.g. "thou" is actually informal - compare "du" (German), "tu" (various Romance languages) For those knowing Modern Standard German thou = du thee = dich / dir ye = euch compare also Middle English where the pronouns are still very similar to Modern German ( like "euch" = "eow" ) edit the plural replacing the singular can be seen in various languages like in Latin American varieties Spanish vos for tu Portuguese voce for tu Standard French still retains strict separation between tu/vous while in Haitian it collapsed to "ou" My theory is that this is related with "lower class language", England was ruled for centuries by a French speaking class (e.g. Robin Hood vs King John) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by cavac (Prior) on Feb 07, 2022 at 06:44 UTC
Re^5: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2022 at 10:36 UTC
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Re^5: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by LanX (Saint) on Feb 07, 2022 at 09:07 UTC
Re^3: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by perlfan (Parson) on Feb 03, 2022 at 13:51 UTC
Thank yous!	[reply]
Re: What's the "State Of the Art" way to distribute cli "Apps" on MacOS sans Xcode? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 10, 2023 at 11:26 UTC
How does one distribute a Perl application on a MacOS where Xcode is not an option, and thus it's not an option to install modules that require a regular build (C compiler, make, etc)? Safely assume (thankfully) this is a non-GUI application. Your prayer was answered on October 10, 2022 by Gavin Hayes: Perl::Dist::APPerl - Actually Portable Perl (APPerl) is a distribution of Perl the runs on several x86_64 operating systems via the same binary. It builds to a single binary with perl modules packed inside of it. Cross-platform, single binary, standalone Perl applications can be made by building custom versions of APPerl, with and without compiling Perl from scratch Binaries and more at: computoid.com/APPerl/	[reply]

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