Unfinished Bitness

Mac OSX comes pre-installed with Perl.  This is how you install CPAN modules into the bundled Perl.  Don’t know what Perl or CPAN is?  This article isn’t for you. 😛

It needs to be done as root, so use sudo.

• Open Terminal.
• Launch the CPAN shell and enter the password when requested:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e "shell"

• Download the CPAN library you want to install (example is Mac::iTunes::Library):

get Mac::iTunes::Library

• Install the library:

install Mac::iTunes::Library

• Exit the CPAN shell.

q

Now you can include the module in your Perl application as so:

use Mac::iTunes::Library;