Building DBD::Sybase on MacOSX 10.3.4

mpeppler has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've never used a Mac so I come looking for some help here...

I've got a user who is trying to build DBD::Sybase on MacOSX 10.3.4 with a recent version of Sybase. The build itself works fine, but make test fails due to missing symbols in the binary:

sh-2.05b$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"  "test_
+harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.tt/autocommit....dyld: /usr/
+bin/perl Undefined symbols:blib/arch/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.bundle un
+defined reference to  _CFBundleCopyBundleURL expected to be defined i
+n a dynamic image
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.bundle undefined reference to  _CFBun
+dleGetBundleWithIdentifier expected to be defined in a dynamic  image
...
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I would expect this to be a fairly simple problem, but I don't know where to start as MacOSX appears to be somewhat different from "normal" Unix...

Thanks!

Michael

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Re: Building DBD::Sybase on MacOSX 10.3.4 by mpeppler (Vicar) on Aug 12, 2004 at 12:28 UTC
Replying to myself - in case someone does a super search on this item... Certain distributions of Sybase on MacOSX omit the dynamic load libraries (.dyld), but include a Cocoa framework (I think that's the right term...). In that situation you have to add `-framework CoreFoundation` to the LDLOADLIBS and/or EXTRALIBS macro in the Makefile that is generated by `perl Makefile.PL`, and then rebuild. Michael	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Building DBD::Sybase on MacOSX 10.3.4 by jfroebe (Parson) on Aug 11, 2004 at 17:02 UTC
Hey Michael You got a response on news://forums.sybase.com/sybase.public.macosx - I don't have access to it from here... I saw the response this morning No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply]
Re^2: Building DBD::Sybase on MacOSX 10.3.4 by mpeppler (Vicar) on Aug 11, 2004 at 17:23 UTC
Thanks - yes, I saw that. Michael	[reply]