MacOS – Invoke Perl script in Windows from OS X

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I have a Perl script written in Windows and an AppleScript written in OS X. I want the AppleScript to invoke the Perl script that is residing in Windows. How can I do this?

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Assuming you have access to the file from your Mac system, for example through a shared folder, you would run it locally (through Terminal) like this:

perl /path/to/windows/shared/folder/scriptname.pl

In AppleScript this would be something like:

do shell script "/usr/bin/perl /path/to/windows/shared/folder/scriptname.pl

However, this still executes the Perl script from your local Mac instance. If you want to actually invoke it on the Windows server, that's a different ballgame. This would require you to setup remote access, through for example SSH or IIS on the Windows machine.

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MacOSX 10.8 and 32-bit perl modules

I found a solution to the problem: use the MacOSX 'arch' command to force perl to run as 32-bit. (See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2088569/how-do-i-force-python-to-be-32-bit-on-snow-leopard-and-other-32-bit-64-bit-quest .)

[kw|~] arch -32 perl5.12 -ce 'use Mac::Glue'
-e syntax OK

Note that one needs the explicit "perl5.12" and not simply "perl", since (on MacOSX 10.8) /usr/bin/perl is a shell script which delegates to either /usr/bin/perl5.12 or /usr/bin/perl5.10.

Automator to run AppleScript for a shell script

You'll need to get the POSIX path of the input file:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "/Users/myaccountname/Applications/TeXcount_3_0/texcount.pl \"" & ( POSIX path of input as string) & "\""
    end tell
end run

I found the answer over at StackOverflow.

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