Perl on a Macintosh

[tbohon]

Is there any way to launch a Perl program on a Mac OS/X 10.x by using a desktop icon? I've tried a couple of things without success. On a PC I just create a shortcut to a command line session and have it execute the program automatically - but I can't figure out how to do the same thing on a Mac.

Thank in advance as always.

Tom

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[Kirsle]

On Windows what you would do is set the shortcut path to...

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "C:\path\to\perl\script.pl"

Can you do something similar for Mac?

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[septemberlogic]

I haven't used a Mac in a while but I think all you have to do is to change the permission of the Perl script to executable and you will be able to launch it by double clicking.

 

[PaulTEG]

the path to perl at the top of the script will be important in this context

Paul
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