Re^4: Perl packager for MAC OS

Thanks a lot for your kind help. Actually, your last reply made me realise a bigger problem than the ones I had. I hadn't realised X11 does not come pre-installed in MAC OS Xs. After doing some search, I saw there is nothing you can do to avoid X11, unless you use Tkx. So, I will either have to go with Tkx (that does not need X11 to run) instead of Tk or use Netbeans for my gui part and create apps for the non-gui Perl stuff I am using.

Really appreciate your help,
Athanasia

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Re^5: Perl packager for MAC OS by McD (Chaplain) on Jun 01, 2009 at 14:12 UTC
You're most welcome! I hadn't heard of Tkx, myself - presumably that's talking to an Aqua-Tcl binary to bypass X11. Actually, that's kind of cool, I'll have to take it for a spin. :-) As long as you're considering substantial change to your design, do take a look at the script I referenced earlier. It uses `HTTP::Server::Simple` and CGI for the GUI. Quick and dirty, but works like a charm.	[reply]
Re^5: Perl packager for MAC OS by lamprecht (Friar) on Jun 01, 2009 at 21:13 UTC
Hi, actually the X11 issue is not so hard to solve. X11 is part of the 'Optional Installs' package that comes on DVD/CD with every Mac. So you could give your users some instructions on how to install that. Also I've seen a few newer machines (OsX 10.5) which had X11 installed by default and even started X11.app automagically when the user opened my pp-packed Tk application. Cheers, Christoph	[reply]