Re: [Module::Build] make test failure report (Cygwin)

[Terrence B. <met...@ur...>]

Randy W. Sims wrote:

> I believe you may have misread the previous message.  This should 
> probably be
>
>>     extra_linker_flags => '-l$Config{libperl}'
>>
>> That is, import the library called libperl.{dll,so,dylib,whatever}
>>
>> Chris
>
>
> Yes, except that should be double quotes, and there seems to be 
> another problem in that none of that ended up on the command line.


you're right: even after double quotes it does not include the extra 
linker flags

>
> gcc -shared -o  XSTest.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libXSTest.dll.a \
> -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--stack,8388608 \
> -s -L/usr/local/lib  lib/XSTest.o
>
> I'm not real familiar with the build process under Cygwin. When I 
> wrote the stuff in M::B::Platform::Windows it was my intention to add 
> support for Cygwin, UWIN, djgpp (maybe Interix & MKS) and I have no 
> idea how this will work with Windows CE, but I never could get a 
> working Cygwin & Perl on my system (some problem with MakeMaker) and I 
> also didn't have a lot of spare time. I'll try to revisit it now as 
> traffic on P5P seems to indicate that a lot of those problems have 
> been solved with perl-5.8.1.

ahh, I am using 5.8.0... but you speak on M::B::Platform::Windows when 
an earlier msg indicated that Cygwin used M::B::Platform::Unix, most of 
which defaults to M::B::Base