Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] [perl-win32-gui-hackers] TODO for 1.06 release

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2008/1/31, Robert May <ro...@th...>:
> I think I'm making good progress.  I just cimmitted everything that I
> had outstanding in my local repository.  Here's what I have left to do
> before a 1.06 release:
>
> - Check that some 'redefined definitions' warnings have been removed
> by the updates to ppport.h
> - Find out why my build on Cygwin results in an unloadable
> SciLexer.dll (permissions I think)

Yes. On cygwin it is missing the x "permission", which is "Read &
Execute" on Windows ACLs.

Note the other cygwin permission problems:
* GUI.rc is not writable, so the default make will fail.

diff -ub perl-Win32-GUI-1.05/Makefile.PL.orig perl-Win32-GUI-1.05/Makefile.PL
--- perl-Win32-GUI-1.05/Makefile.PL.orig        2006-11-02
21:36:58.000000000 +0100
+++ perl-Win32-GUI-1.05/Makefile.PL     2008-01-12 21:38:08.406250000 +0100
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@
     $rc_frag .= <<'RC_FRAG3'

 GUI.rc: GUI.pm
+       attrib -R GUI.rc
        $(PERL) -I$(BUILD_TOOLS) $(BUILD_TOOLS)/updateRC.pl

 RC_FRAG3

* samples/* are not writable, so the blib update for the demos will fail.
No patch, I fix that in my build script.

> - Add to all Makefiles a suitable addition of the -mms-bitfields flag
> for gcc, to allow building under 5.10 with GCC against a VC++ compiled
> Perl to work.

Good catch by Jan.

> - check that the new tests for Scintilla work under cygwin

I'll do.

> - update $VERSION of modules that have changes
> - update Win23::GUI $VERSION to 1.05_99 and make a beta distribution available.


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