Mac Switching update, Sun 25 Sep

I've been using the tutorial at MacZealots.com as a guide to getting Movable Type up and running on the Mac Mini. I've deviated from their setup by using MySQL as the backend database, though.

To make this work, you need a few Perl packages that aren't installed as standard with OS X Tiger, such as DBI and DBD::MySQL. You can download these packages from CPAN (or use the cpan command-line tool), but installing them doesn't work straight-away because Tiger doesn't have make or a gcc compiler available by default. You get these by installing the "Developer Tools" from the Tiger install disks: pop in the first installation disk, go to the folder "Xcode Tools" and install the package XcodeTools.mpkg.

It's all one big long chain of dependencies...