On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:04:16AM +0000, Sisyphus wrote:
> Anyone know why 'nmake' makefiles have an empty 'MakeMaker xs_o section'
> ? I can't find a module that I've *ever* built with 'nmake' that has the
> 'MakeMaker xs_o section' filled in.
As ExtUtils::MM_Win32 says:
=item xs_o
This target is stubbed out. Not sure why.
=cut
sub xs_o {
return ''
}
> How best to fix this ? Is there a modification I can make to the
> Makefile.PL that will force the inclusion of the correct stuff into the
> 'MakeMaker xs_o section' of an 'nmake' Makefile ?
>
> When I build with 'dmake' on Win32, I have exactly the same problem -
> the 'MakeMaker xs_o section' is empty. I suspect that the solution is
> the same, though I haven't actually verified that yet.
Yes, they both use the same MakeMaker code.
> On Win32 I'm running perl 5.8.4, EU::MM-6.17
First thing to do is try a newer MakeMaker. 6.25_08 being the current
recommended version. I doubt this will fix the problem.
