RE: [perlce-user] Problems encountered while running Perl Modules in PerlCE

[Konovalov, V. <vko...@sp...>]

All extensions should be cross-compiled during normal nmake process.

That said, firstly miniperl on host machine is created, and then it is used
to facilitate cross-compiling extensions. Below is an excerpt from your
makefile.ce, $(HPERL) means perl on Win2000+. "Extension" target is normally
builded

Extensions: ..\win32\buildext.pl $(PERLDEP) $(CONFIGPM)
	$(HPERL) -I..\lib -I..\win32 -MCross=$(CROSS_NAME)
..\win32\buildext.pl $(MAKE) $(PERLDEP) $(EXTDIR) \
	!POSIX $(NOT_COMPILE_EXT)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhiman chattopadhyay [mailto:cha...@ya...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: Eruhim Watman; per...@li...; 
> an...@vs...
> Cc: vko...@sp...; 
> per...@li...; cha...@ya...
> Subject: Re: [perlce-user] Problems encountered while running 
> Perl Modules in PerlCE
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Thanks for your help.
> we think that io.dll,socket.dll etc has to be rebuilt 
> for the wince4.20 x86 platform for running perl
> modules on perlCE. 
> But it seems that the makefile.ce does not build those
> files.
> (Pls see our modified makefile attached below.)
> We need the source file & makefile for cosscompiling
> io.dll,socket.dll,cwd.dll etc for porting perlce to
> WinCE 4.20 x86 platform to run perl modules. 
> Can anyone please help us on this ?
> 
> We are stuck with the error message --
>  "cann't load io.dll" 
> (126 -ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND)
> although the specified dll is in specified path.
> The other error is "cann't load cwd.dll" 
> (193 - ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT).
> 
> We also found from the debug log of platform builder
> that
> "DoImport Failed! Unable to import Library
> 'WINSOCKM.dll' for 'IO.dll'  "
> but there is no file named winsockm.dll !!
>  Another error coming in platform builder debug log is
> --
>  " ERROR: function @ Ordinal 8934 missing in Module
> 'coredll.dll' "
> 
> Can you please tell us where we are going wrong. 
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Anirban
> Dhiman  
> 
> 
> --- Eruhim Watman <wa...@sp...> wrote: > DLL's are
> not compatible between WinCE and WinXP.
> > 
> > For example, font files (TTF) are compatible but
> > executables are not.
> > 
> > you must build them properly during common
> > cross-compilation process
> > and go.
> > 
> > Could you please share your resulting makefile BTW?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Vadim.
> > 
> > avn> Dear Sir,
> > avn> We have built perl for windows CE .NET 4.20 on
> > x86 .
> > avn> and have ported the perl.exe and dll and 
> > executed simple
> > avn> perl scripts successfully.
> > avn> We have copied Perl library files(.pm,.pl, .dll
> > etc) to Windows CE target since we need to run perl
> > modules also. 
> > 
> > avn> However while running perl modules We are
> > facing the following problems .
> > 
> > avn> On executing our perl module code in the target
> > we are getting the following error.
> > 
> > avn> "Can't load './auto/IO/IO.dll' for module IO:
> > TCS1 load_file:Error at DynaLoader.pm line 72.
> > avn>  at IO/Handle.pm line 260
> > 
> > avn> Compilation failed in require at IO/Handle.pm
> > line 260.
> > avn> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> > IO/Handle.pm line 260.
> > avn> Compilation failed in require at IO/Socket.pm
> > line 11.
> > avn> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> > IO/Socket.pm line 11.
> > avn> Compilation failed in require at HTTP/Daemon.pm
> > line 10.
> > avn> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> > HTTP/Daemon.pm line 10.
> > avn> Compilation failed in require at
> > SOAP/Transport/HTTP.pm line 360."
> > 
> > avn> We copied IO.dll from perl library of winXP to
> > the specified 
> > avn> path in target CE but it did not work out. 
> > avn> We also tried the io.dll fom the precompiled
> > avn> distribution available in perlCE souceforge
> > site but ended up with the same error
> > 
> > avn> We found the root cause : in cewin32.c (source
> > file for celib.dll ) 
> > avn> LoadLibraryW call inside XCELoadLibraryA
> > returns null.  
> > avn> we think windows CE fails to recognise the dll
> > copied from winXP perl.
> > avn> But from the readme.ce it seems that the same
> > xs dlls like cwd.dll,IO.dll,
> > avn> socket.dll are to be copied from perl library
> > of winXP to the specified 
> > avn> path in target CE. 
> > avn> are we going wrong ? or are we to build the
> > IO.dll etc for target platform ? 
> > avn> We did not find the source from which we can
> > build these dlls for target platform.
> >  
> > avn> We are stuck at this problem for quite some
> > time now . Can you pls help us in this ?
> >  
> > avn> Thank you for giving your precious time.
> > 
> > avn> Regards
> > avn> Anirban Gomes
> > 
> >  
> 
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