Thanks for the clarification, Rob.  It seems that the PDL-2.009_01 should
work as a new PDL-2.010 then.

Cheers,
Chris


On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:48 PM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
> From: Chris Marshall
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 7:34 AM
> To: pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Pdl-devel] ASPerl build problems with PDL-2.008+
>
>  Here is the URL for the ASPerl reports:
>> http://code.activestate.com/ppm/PDL/
>>
>
> As regards the Windows failure for 2.008 on 5.16:
>
> Ops.xs(18630) : error C2632: 'long' followed by 'long' is illegal
> Ops.xs(18630) : error C2632: 'long' followed by 'long' is illegal
> Ops.xs(18696) : error C2632: 'long' followed by 'long' is illegal
> Ops.xs(18696) : error C2632: 'long' followed by 'long' is illegal
>
> So they've obviously used one of the (older) MS compilers for which 'long
> long' is illegal - as any MS compiler from this century will allow 'long
> long'.
> In Ops.xs we currently generate:
>
> #define Q_MOD(X,N) (((N) == 0)   ?    0   :   (   (X) - (ABS(N))  *
> ((long long)((X)/(ABS(N))) + (   ( ((N) * ((long long)((X)/(N)))) != (X) )
>  ? ( ( ((N)<0) ? 1 : 0 )  +  ( (((X)<0) ? -1 : 0)))  :  0 ))))
>
> As regards the Windows failure for 2.009 on 5.18 and 5.20:
>
> cp gamma.fits ..\..\..\blib\lib\PDL\Graphics\LUT\ramps/gamma.fits
> The system cannot find the path specified.
> dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'subdirs'
> dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
>
> This is the same problem reported a few days back - the 'Graphics/PLplot'
> directory is missing.
> (For 5.18 onwards, ActveState use MinGW compilers and dmake.)
>
> I don't check MS compiler builds of PDL any more.
> Inline::C (PDL prerequisite) now has such a long dependency chain that
> installing it by hand is impractical, and 'cpan -i Inline::C' doesn't work
> on my MSVC-built perls.
> I abhor "cpan" and its offshoots to the extent that I haven't yet
> summonsed the energy to do anything about solving this problem - and it
> will probably never happen.
>
> Now that ActiveState don't use MS compilers for their Windows builds, I
> feel that problems with MS compilers can be left to those that actually
> want to use those compilers.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
>
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