----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert May" . . > Steps to invoke problem: > (1) run: h2xs -A -n SomeModule > (2) cd into the created SomeModule directory > (3) run the incantation: > perl -MConfig_m Makefile.PL > nmake > nmake test > > Generally this works fine, and the (one) test passes, but if > 'SomeModule' is 'DropFile' or 'DropFiles' I get the following test > result (re-formatted for readability: > > C:\Perl\5.8.7\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" > "test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t\DropFiles.t > # Failed test (t\DropFiles.t at line 9) > # Tried to use 'DropFiles'. > t\DropFiles....NOK 1# > Error: Can't load > 'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\xs_test\DropF\DropFiles\blib\arch/auto/DropFiles/DropFil es.dll' > for module DropFiles: load_file:The operation completed successfully at > C:/Perl/5.8.7/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230. >
> > It's an odd error message! Indeed .... I have no idea what it means. > The problem disappears if I compile with > VC6, making me think in more likely to be a MinGW issue, but I'd like to > be able to build with MinGW without choosing a different module name. > Are you using the same 'nmake' in both instances ? (If so we can rule 'nmake' out as the culprit.) I can't reproduce the problem - though I haven't got exactly the same environment - Windows2000, using 'dmake', gcc-3.4.4, AS build 810. However, I can't see that any of those differences account for the strange behaviour you're getting. (My immediate thoughts were that you must be doing something silly - though, of course, that's not necessarily so - and I can't for the life of me think of what that "silliness" could possibly be :-) I'd create 2 separate directories for the creation of DropFiles - one for creating with MinGW/EU::FC, and one for creating with VC6. Then compare the 2 generated DropFiles.c. (Maybe also compare some of the other files - eg the Makefile that was generated in both cases.) Somewhere there has to be a difference that matters. For comparing large files you can use 'diffutils' from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html (which, iirc, needs 'gettext' - which is also available from the same page). What happens if you name the module (successively) DropFile, DropFil, Drop, ...., Dr, D ? At what point does the problem go away ? Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
