Re: [Module::Build] have_c_compiler uncovers Windoze bug

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 11/29/2003 11:31 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the patch, though.  It seems to just create a 
> boot_compilet() C function, and make sure quotes are stripped from the 
> object filename.  How does this fix the issue?
> 
>  -Ken

The problem is that the code in compile_c() and link_c(), on Windows 
specifically, but also M::B in general, is written to produce a dynamic 
perl module library. In Windows land an executable requires a different 
set of flags, etc to produce an executable file. So, instead of writting 
a lot of new scaffolding to compile an executable for the three 
different compilers on Windows, the patch basically adds enough to 
complete a minimal, skeletal, perl library. Without the boot_compilet() 
function, the linker would report an undefined reference to external 
symbol or something like.

I'm probably not explaining this well, but hopefully enough to make at 
least a little sense.

Randy.