It's been a awhile since I used Text::CSV_XS, but don't you create an IO::File instance and then pass that to yout Text::CSV instance? If so then would the following from IO::Handle do what you want? They are about halfway down the page. 
IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters( [STR] ) $:
IO::Handle->input_record_separator( [STR] )       $/

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Seems like it should honor $/ but perhaps you can force it like so? 
IO::Handle->input_record_separator( ["\r"] );

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Update1: Looks like this is what you want. However, Text::CSV_XS seems to somehow ignore line 7. According to the Text::CV_XS documentation the IO::Handle->getline is what is called, so the above should in theory work. However, $csv->getline returns undef on my simulated MAC test file. Looks like the Decode routine in the .so may be the culprit? 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use IO::File;
use Text::CSV_XS;
IO::Handle->input_record_separator( "\r" );
my $file = defined $ARGV[0] ? $ARGV[0] : 'normal.txt';
my $io   = new IO::File "$file", "<" || die "horribly";
my $csv  = new Text::CSV_XS;
# my $test = $io->getline;
# print Data::Dumper->Dump([$test],['io']);
my $columns = $csv->getline($io);
print Data::Dumper->Dump([$columns],['csv']);
exit 0;

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Also cleaned up some errors in the original portion.

Update2: Would something like the following work? 

cat mac.txt | perl -e '$/="\r"; while(<>){$_=~s/\015$/\n/; print $_;}'

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In reply to Re: Text::CSV_XS and line-endings by Argel
in thread Text::CSV_XS and line-endings by friedo

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