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[wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

We have gone through several variations (PAR, PerlWrapper) of installers 
for the OS X version of our wxPerl app in the pre-Intel days, but we are 
having problems getting a working installer for Intel OS X 10.4.7 (which 
now comes with wxPerl 0.22, but our app wants a more current version, 
and we get weird path conflicts).

My options seem to be to:
a) buy VISE X installer (http://www.mindvision.com/vise_x.asp ),
b) keep playing with PAR or PerlWrapper to resolve all the PATH issues, or
c) fund a bounty for getting PAR or PerlWrapper working *nicely* on 
Intel OS X 10.4.7

So my questions for the list are:

1) Any other suggestions?

2) Anyone interested in receiving some funding for a better OS X wxPerl 
installer? Perhaps an updated PerlWrapper xcode project that works with 
newer versions of wxPerl and wxWidgets that will work on 10.4.7?  
Perhaps that includes the wxlibs in the xcode project?? I'm open to 
providing some funding for this if someone is interested (and has some 
OS X experience too! :) )

3) Anyone have any ideas on a good way to build a Universal wxPerl app?

I know there has been discussion before about some of this, but I'm not 
sure it went anywhere...

Thanks in advance...

-- 
Mike Schroeder
DonorWare

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:24:17 -0600
Mike Schroeder <Mik...@Do...> wrote:

> We have gone through several variations (PAR, PerlWrapper) of installers 
> for the OS X version of our wxPerl app in the pre-Intel days, but we are 
> having problems getting a working installer for Intel OS X 10.4.7 (which 
> now comes with wxPerl 0.22, but our app wants a more current version, 
> and we get weird path conflicts).

  Stupid question: do the path conflicts appear with the same (which?)
wxPerl version on PPC OS X 10.4.7? I guess not (or it would be too simple)
but asking does not hurt :-)

Regards
Mattia

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Mattia Barbon wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:24:17 -0600
> Mike Schroeder <Mik...@Do...> wrote:
>   
>> We have gone through several variations (PAR, PerlWrapper) of installers 
>> for the OS X version of our wxPerl app in the pre-Intel days, but we are 
>> having problems getting a working installer for Intel OS X 10.4.7 (which 
>> now comes with wxPerl 0.22, but our app wants a more current version, 
>> and we get weird path conflicts).
>>     
>
>   Stupid question: do the path conflicts appear with the same (which?)
> wxPerl version on PPC OS X 10.4.7? I guess not (or it would be too simple)
> but asking does not hurt :-)
>   

:-(  Wish I knew -- we had a PPC 10.3.x build environment, but dropped 
that to move to a Intel 10.4.7 build environment.  At this point, we're 
targeting the Intel platform since that seems to be the future -- a PPC 
build is bonus round at this point...

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Christian R. <cre...@we...>]

Hi all,

Mike -- sorry for not replying to your request earlier. I was quite
busy with my wedding and am only now recovering from it :-). I'm
definitely interested in getting PerlWrapper to work on Panther (and
Leopard, as soon as I have access to that). Anyone experiencing
problems with PerlWrapper on Panther, please contact me.

Regards,
    Christian

-- 
cr...@we... - http://christian.web42.com - http://www.web42.com/crenz/ 

"I expect a good deal of the problem is that you are busy disbelieving
a different God than the one I am busy believing in. In theological
discussions more than any other kind, it's easy to talk at right
angles and never even realize it."  -- Larry Wall

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Your wedding or an open source project?? Where are your priorities man?!?!

:)

I went and bought another mac mini, so I now have Intel and PPC versions 
of OS X 1.4.7 running "clean" and suitable as test beds for apps built 
with PerlWrapper.  Does anyone have the wxPerl minimal.pl as a test of 
PerlWrapper?  Or an xcode project using wxPerl 0.26+ ? 

I think most of my problems were stemming from wxPerl 0.22 being 
preinstalled now in OS X in /usr, but the WxPerl 0.26+ stuff all seems 
to install into /usr/local/ -- and my wxPerl startup was getting confused.

If no one has an existing minimal.pl with PerlWrapper, I'll see what I 
can do, and get some debug output for the list to review.

Thanks again.  And congratulations on your wedding Christian... :)

Mike.


Christian Renz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Mike -- sorry for not replying to your request earlier. I was quite
> busy with my wedding and am only now recovering from it :-). I'm
> definitely interested in getting PerlWrapper to work on Panther (and
> Leopard, as soon as I have access to that). Anyone experiencing
> problems with PerlWrapper on Panther, please contact me.
>
> Regards,
>     Christian
>
>   

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Some progress:

1) I got the PerlWrapper basic example that uses Mac::Applescript 
working using the instructions from:

    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12580886

Results:
       a) it works fine on a clean Intel-based machine
       b) the clean PPC machine showed the icon with a slash through it, 
and when trying to run, it nicely gave a dialog about the application 
not able to run on this architecture --apparently setting the xCode to 
Universal did not work.


2) I next worked on a wxMinimal example for Intel building off of the 
previous Intel success.
    a) copied the /usr/local/lib/libwx* files into the xCode Libraries 
directory
    b) ran the Tools/update_dylib_references.pl
    c) copied the Wx Perl files and auto/Wx files into the 
Perl-Libraries directory

Results:
    a) the built app ran correctly on the build machine
    b) tried the app on the clean Intel machine and got this error:

Perl Error
Can't load 
'/Users/username/Desktop/PerlWrapper.app/Contents/Resources/Perl-Libraries/auto/Wx/Wx.bundle' 

for module Wx: 
dlopen(/Users/username/Desktop/PerlWrapper.app/Contents/Resources/Perl-Libraries/auto/Wx/Wx.bundle,1):
Library not loaded: /Library/Perl


So two issues I could use some advice on:
1) Suggestions on the "Library not loaded" error?
2) Suggestions on making a Universal PerlWrapper?


Thanks in advance for any help!

Re: [wxperl-users] OS X App Installer

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Mike Schroeder wrote:
> Perl Error
> Can't load 
> '/Users/username/Desktop/PerlWrapper.app/Contents/Resources/Perl-Libraries/auto/Wx/Wx.bundle' 
>
> for module Wx: 
> dlopen(/Users/username/Desktop/PerlWrapper.app/Contents/Resources/Perl-Libraries/auto/Wx/Wx.bundle,1):
> Library not loaded: /Library/Perl
>
>
> So two issues I could use some advice on:
> 1) Suggestions on the "Library not loaded" error?
>
>   
OK - this is over my head, but I did a little digging and found this:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man3/dlopen.3.html

     Mac OS X 10.3 incorporated the dlcompat package written by Jorge Acereda
     <jac...@us...> and Peter O'Gorman <ogor-
     ma...@us...>.

     In Mac OS X 10.4, dlopen was rewritten to be a native part of dyld.

And in turn this:

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/dyld.html

Am I on the right track?  Does this provide any clues to anyone?