Hi, Should I submit the 2 proposals below to bugzilla ?
1) I've found that we can't actually build perl using the MinGW that gets installed using ppm. This happens because windres.exe cannot be found. Adding the perl/site/lib/auto/MinGW folder fixes the problem, but perhaps it would be better to put an executable named windres.exe in perl/site/bin - as has been done for ar, g77, g++, gcc and dlltool. Btw, what does the source code for those executables look like ? 2) ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid.pm contains the following: if ($VC and exists $ENV{LIB} and $ENV{LIB}) { push @libpath, split /;/, $ENV{LIB}; } It would be really neat if the same could be done for MinGW, by adding the following code immediately after the above code: # For the benefit of MinGW: if ($GC and exists $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH} and $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH}) { push @libpath, split /;/, $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH}; } I've been using this in my own builds of perl for quite some time, and it's a very handy amendment to have in place. (Amending Kid.pm by hand every time I update EU::MM/perl does, however, become rather tiresome.) I asked Schwern to put it in the official release of EU::MM, but he refused - worried it might break something. It then occurred to me that, since ActivePerl ships with ActiveState's own version of EU::MM, ActiveState might be willing to include that code. (Better still if someone can convince Schwern to stick it in the official release.) Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs