Greetings Inliners!
I've gotten some complaints from users of my module Text::Scan, that it is no
longer installable as a precompiled binary via ActiveState's "ppm" command. Any
ideas why not? Is there some place I can go to look at error messages or
something? (I've already fruitlessly searched for such a way)
I have little clue how to compile things for Windows, or what's involved. And I
don't know what setup is used particularly by ActiveState. But at least one
user has tried and failed with the setup and compiler errors below.
Any help much appreciated!
---------------------------------------------------- Details from user:
As you asked, here is what I do:
I am using Windows XP, with Microsoft CL compiler. I am upgrading to
ActivePerl 5.8.7 (I was able to install this module in activeperl 5.6.1
which is a quite old version). I guess this setting is common in Windows
platform.
Since no ppd available for such setting, I did the following things:
1. Download Text::Scan v0.23 from cpan (and decompressed it).
2. Perl Makefile.PL
3. Nmake
When I "Nmake", there are warnings showing on screen and it stopped at
certain errors.
(My perl compiler is D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe)
(The download Text-Scan files are in:
D:\activeperl8\Download\uncompress\Text-Scan-0.23)
----------------------------------------------------- Make errors:
D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe -Mblib -MInline=NOISY,_INSTALL_
-MText::Scan -e1 0.23 blib\arch
Starting Build Prepocess Stage
Finished Build Prepocess Stage
Starting Build Parse Stage
Finished Build Parse Stage
Starting Build Glue 1 Stage
Finished Build Glue 1 Stage
Starting Build Glue 2 Stage
Finished Build Glue 2 Stage
Starting Build Glue 3 Stage
Finished Build Glue 3 Stage
Starting Build Compile Stage
Starting "perl Makefile.PL" Stage
Writing Makefile for Text::Scan
Finished "perl Makefile.PL" Stage
Starting "make" Stage
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe D:\activeperl\Perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp
-typemap D:\activeperl\Perl\lib\ExtUtils
\typemap Scan.xs > Scan.xsc && D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe
-MExtUtils::Command -e mv Scan.xsc Scan.c
cl -c -ID:/activeperl8/Download/uncompress/Text-Scan-0.23 -nologo -Gf
-W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONS
OLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_P
ERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"0.23\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.23\" "-ID:\activeperl\Perl\lib
\CORE" Scan.c
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-Gf'
Scan.c
Scan.xs(251) : warning C4101: 't' : unreferenced local variable
Scan.xs(654) : warning C4244: 'function' : conversion from 'double' to
'size_t', possible loss of data
Scan.xs(690) : warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch
Scan.xs(650) : warning C4101: 'last' : unreferenced local variable
Scan.xs(747) : warning C4013: 'PerlSIO_getc' undefined; assuming extern
returning int
Scan.xs(725) : warning C4101: 'i' : unreferenced local variable
Scan.xs(727) : warning C4101: 'metastr' : unreferenced local variable
Running Mkbootstrap for Text::Scan ()
D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 Scan.bs
D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Mksymlists -e
"Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"Text::Scan\", 'DLBASE' => 'Scan
', 'DL_FUNCS' => { }, 'FUNCLIST' => [], 'IMPORTS' => { }, 'DL_VARS' => []);"
link -out:blib\arch\auto\Text\Scan\Scan.dll -dll -nologo -nodefaultlib
-debug -opt:ref,icf -libpath:"d:\activep
erl\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86 Scan.obj
D:\activeperl\Perl\lib\CORE\perl58.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib
gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib
oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib m
pr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib -def:Scan.def
Creating library blib\arch\auto\Text\Scan\Scan.lib and object
blib\arch\auto\Text\Scan\Scan.exp
Scan.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _PerlSIO_getc referenced
in function __restore
blib\arch\auto\Text\Scan\Scan.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"F:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460'
Stop.
A problem was encountered while attempting to compile and install your Inline
C code. The command that failed was:
nmake
The build directory was:
D:\activeperl8\Download\uncompress\Text-Scan-0.23\_Inline\build\Text\Scan
To debug the problem, cd to the build directory, and inspect the output files.
at -e line 0
INIT failed--call queue aborted.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\activeperl\Perl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
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