Re^3: Get macOS Version

That should be simple enough. The host OS will have Perl installed (as far as I know it has been installed by default since the first OS X). Have your app's perl find out where the system perl is (maybe a system call to which perl?) and then use that perl to examine its Config.

Hope this helps!

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^4: Get macOS Version by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 25, 2018 at 15:46 UTC
It’s been almost 20 years but IIRC you are quite right. The OS X beta had the dev tools more “above the fold” than OS X currently does, again, if I’m remembering correctly. I do remember how goddamn painful getting modperl installed was. 80% my systardiness and 20% dearth of documentation on a bleeding edge OS. Also, thanks for the Config reminder. Just yesterday I wrote a test that should have used it but I went all `qx{}` on it like a dummy. :P	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Get macOS Version by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2018 at 14:47 UTC
Ah, so simple. Didn't thought about it! I'll give it a try, but it seems a good solution. Cheers.	[reply]
Re^5: Get macOS Version by 1nickt (Canon) on Oct 25, 2018 at 15:01 UTC
Well, as long as you are shelling out with a `system` call, there is probably a native MacOS program to tell you the OS version ... I just always think of Perl solutions :-) Update: `sw_vers -productVersion` seems to be the needed utility: `$ perl -E'say qx/sw_vers -productVersion/' 10.12.6` [download] Note that this is a different value than that shown by using Config! `$ perl -MConfig -E'say $Config{osvers}' 16.7.0` [download] The latter appears to be the macOS build version, in fact, and can be different from the time Perl was built to the present: `$ perl -E'say qx/sw_vers -buildVersion/' 16G1510` [download] Hope this helps! The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l] [select]