Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Plans for a 1.06 release

[Robert M. <rob...@us...>]

On 30/01/2008, Jeremy White <jez...@ho...> wrote:
> > After further investigation I have submitted the following perlbug report:
> >
> > http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=50386
> >
> > which is also tracked by ActiveState here:
> >
> > http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74532
> >
>
> As this looked so serious I downloaded 5.10.0 (1002) to test this and I can see what you see.
> This is a major problem in general, not just for Win32::GUI (my own XS modules fail their
> test suit due to this issue).

Jan (ActiveState) confirmed and explained the problem (follow the
rt.perl.org link above).

> Looks like I wont be upgrading to 5.10 any time soon:)

Turns out there is a simple solution - add the -mms_bitfields option
to your cflags to get gcc to use the same bitfield-alignment as MSVC.

I've submitted a patch to ActiveState, which I hope will make it into
their next build.  In the meantime be *VERY* wary of any modules for
ActiveState 5.10 that are built with gcc.

Regards,
Rob.