Perl Interpreter

This software is the perl_interpreter for CMISS. It is released under the Mozilla Public License v1.1

The perl interpreter enables legacy CMISS commands to be interspersed with perl code.

Requirements

To build the perl interpreter the following packages are required.

• Build toolchain
• CMake
• Perl

MacOS

For MacOS the system perl is not suitable for use with the perl interpreter. You will need to install a suitable perl before configuring the perl interpreter. A suitable perl can be installed from https://perlbrew.pl/.

Building on MacOS

Commands for buildng a release build of the perl interpreter using the Terminal application:

git clone https://github.com/cmiss/perl_interpreter.git
mkdir build-perl_interpreter
cd build-perl_interpreter
cmake -DINSTALL_PREFIX=../usr/local -DSTATIC_LIBPERL=<the binary directory where a perl with static perl library is found> ../perl_interpreter
make
make install

If all of these commnds successfully complete the perl interpreter will be available for using with CmGui from '../usr/local/' directory. Please note that you will need to change the CMake configuration to actually point to the binary directory where a perl with a static perl library is found.

You can also set the variable PERL_INTERPRETER_STATIC_LIBPERL using a CMake Gui to the binary directory where a perl with a static perl library is found.

If the static libperl variable is not set then Cmgui may fail to start because no backup perl interpreter is available.

Further Reading

Further information, help pages, a tracker and a wiki is available at http://www.cmiss.org/cmgui/

This software was originally developed at The University of Auckland and the Copyright held by Auckland UniServices Ltd. This development has been for over 15 years and this release is under ongoing development.