Tools: HeaderDoc Unfettered: Running the Scripts Using MacPerl

Running the Scripts Using MacPerl

Most of HeaderDoc runs on Mac OS 9 and earlier if MacPerl is installed. (You can get MacPerl from the CPAN ports page.) To run HeaderDoc using MacPerl:

Change the line endings in the scripts and modules (*.pm files) from UNIX to Macintosh. Many text editors (BBEdit, for example) let you easily change line ending types.

Run MacPerl, open headerDoc2HTML.pl and gatherHeaderDoc.pl and save them as droplets. You might save them with a different names (say, the script names minus the .pl extensions) to preserve the original versions.

Now, you can drag a header file or folder of header files on each droplet in turn, and the files will be processed in place.

Note: Some advanced features, including automatic linking, man page output, and XML output will not work in Mac OS 9 because these require libxml2, which is only available for UNIX-based and UNIX-like systems.

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