Thanks, that's helpful.

Before posting here I had already tried rebuilding Mac::Glue (as suggested in the first response to my original question), but without any luck. I was planning on next building my own perl, but then I began to suspect that the problem was more fundamental and could not be fixed by tweaking the build parameters.

Perl (v5.12.4) claims to be bi-architectural:

[kw|~] file /usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/perl: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/perl (for architecture i386):    Mach-O executable i386
/usr/bin/perl (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O 64-bit executable x
+86_64

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The module I want to use is 32-bit i386: 
[kw|~] lipo -info /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi
+-2level/auto/MacPerl/MacPerl.bundle
Non-fat file: /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2le
+vel/auto/MacPerl/MacPerl.bundle is architecture: i386

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But things fail anyway: 
[kw|~] perl -ce 'use Mac::Glue'
Can't load '/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2leve
+l/auto/MacPerl/MacPerl.bundle' for module MacPerl: dlopen(/System/Lib
+rary/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/MacPerl/MacPerl
+.bundle, 1): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/M
+acPerl/MacPerl.bundle: mach-o, but wrong architecture at /System/Libr
+ary/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DynaLoader.pm line 204.
 at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/Mac/Glue/Common.pm line 21
Compilation failed in require at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/Mac/
+Glue/Common.pm line 21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/
+Mac/Glue/Common.pm line 21.
Compilation failed in require at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/Mac/
+Glue.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/
+Mac/Glue.pm line 7.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

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I'm guessing that I'm out of luck, since the OS is 64-bit and Mac::Glue will only build as 32-bit (since it depends on the Carbon API). But I'm a novice on these architecture compatibility issues, so if someone wants to authoritatively confirm that I'm out of luck I would appreciate it.

In reply to Re^2: Mac::Carbon et.c on Mac OS X 10.8 by kwalker
in thread Mac::Carbon et.c on Mac OS X 10.8 by kwalker

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