[manfreds]

I need to run Perl on OS X. Is this possible somehow?

[philzilla]

it's already running, when you boot the machine up

[holygoat]

Doesn't a version come with it?

[manfreds]

Originally posted by philzilla:
it's already running, when you boot the machine up

So what do I have to do?

[Millennium]

Um... it's Perl. Granted, it's the command-line version (though you can also get a Carbon version from the Web and Cocoa bindings are in the works). But it works basically the same as it does everywhere else.

[Gul Banana]

In other words,
a) Write a perl script
b) Run it with, for example, "./scriptname" or "perl script.pl"

[philzilla]

Originally posted by manfreds:
So what do I have to do?

apply your finger to the Power button

[manfreds]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
In other words,
a) Write a perl script
b) Run it with, for example, "./scriptname" or "perl script.pl"

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything. If I type perl xxxx.pl nothing happens, not even an error message. Where does the output go?

[Phoenix1701]

Well, assuming you put some print statements in there somewhere, it should go to standard output... if you want to make sure you're getting the right interpreter, type:

which perl

And then use the path that's generated by that as the first line of your script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

(In my opinion, you should always use the -w flag -- it enables warnings and debuggings and things of that nature that may very well not be reported otherwise. In fact, an error of that sort might be why your script isn't working.)

[manfreds]

Thanks, Phoenix!

It turned out it were the Macintosh line breaks. It appears to work with Unix line breaks only.

[manfreds]

Allow me another question please: I'm supposed to do chmod 755 on the file and put it into a cgi-bin directory. I made a cgi-bin folder in my Web-Sites folder, but Safari doesn't execute the script. It just loads it as text.
Where is this cgi-bin folder so that Safari can execute the script?

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Never mind. I found it. The script belongs into Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables