[Mingw-users] Re: Perl modules using MingW

[Nicholas Lewin-K. <koh...@co...>]

Hi,
Uggh, does that mean to compile a PERL module (I am working on one) for
windows using mingw I have to compile PERL from scratch, and reconfigure
Config.pm so that perls MakeMaker works correctly. Crap, I just recently
figured out how to write my own simple make files that actually produce
working dlls. 

I was hoping I could just use the active perl binaries and compile a
module just making some changes in the makefile. Of course this binary
incompaibility problem really %^$%$#'s things up. I don't suppose that
anyone has actually built and is distributing perl for win32 built with
mingw and that invokes mingw's build tools? I can't use cygwin because i
am using the wingtk port for the application, and that requires msvrt.dll.

Could you help me get through compiling perl, and I will see if I can help
with the last 10% of getting config.pm correcly set up. It would be nice
to just type make and let P2C2E compile and build my module for me, sigh.

Nicholas

PS P2C2E = Processes too complicated to explain


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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Soren Andersen wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, an entity purporting to be Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote 
> [regarding: Modules for perl on win32]  
> 
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone had any success building modules for activeperl using Mingw? I
> > was reading through the active perl docs and they are configured for VC++.
> > If someone could outline how to do it or point me to some relevant
> > documentation I would be very gratefull. Thanks
> 
> What Perl are you using -- for what Perl are you wanting to build mods? If it's for 
> an ActivePerl bindist (you made reference to the AS docs) then you need to realize 
> that not just any compilation-requiring mod will work; for most ActivePerl dists it 
> *has to be* compiled with VC++. It's referred to as "binary compatibility" issues.
> 
> When you build a mod from source (such as distributed on CPAN) you are having 
> perl (MakeMaker) use Config.pm to set up the build. You have to control what's in 
> Config.pm, and you do that by building Perl yourself on your system, from scratch. 
> Any other way is **not** "canonical" or "supported." Take a look at Config.pm 
> from your own Perl and you'll see what's in there (it's a LOT, bewildering complexity 
> and very huge text file). That's the key. If you have Perl built, you are (as I am) 
> probably 90% of the way to being able to run the classic `make' invocation 
> formulas for Perl mods and have it all go successfully.
> 
> Last month I built Perl 5.7 (devel branch) using minGW. I am talking the standard 
> "plain vanilla" source code from CPAN, not anything from AS. I have never tried to 
> build AS source, yet.
> 
> Let's keep in touch regarding this if the fundamental answers to my questions 
> seem to point in the direction I am indicating (that you are going to, or have, built 
> Perl on your own machine, using minGW + Free Software gnu tools). If that's the 
> case maybe we could pool our knowlwdge and help each other out.
> 
> 
>   Best,
>      soren andersen
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