Windows + gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Dootson
Hi, On Windows, for a Perl built with mingw gcc where the gcc version is greater than 4.4, the perl5xx.dll may be linked to libstdc++ in addition to libgcc. It depends on how the gcc toolchain was built and how Perl was built. Dynamic linking to libstdc++ is not an uncommon case. I expect the

RE: [rt.cpan.org #75193] [PATCH] Fix build on Win32/VC++

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Hay
Roderich Schupp wrote on 2012-02-23: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 23:09, Mark Dootson > wrote: >>> I read the pp code as concatenating chunks of the final exec onto >>> itself >> >> I just checked latest code and there have been many updates in this >> area since I last looked. > > There was some w

Building on Windows with mingw resource bug

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Dootson
Hi, Looking at the issues with windows resources I have found that the changes to the windows resource build in version 1.013 only work in fairly recent versions of Strawberry Perl. Other binutils installations may suffer from a couple of bugs/problems: 1) Older versions of windres (as inclu

Re: Problem installing PAR 1.005 on cygwin

2012-02-23 Thread Roderich Schupp
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 17:19, Philip Kime wrote: > $ make install > chmod 755 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin/auto/PAR/PAR.dll > chmod: cannot access > `/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin/auto/PAR/PAR.dll > ': No such file or directory Totally weird, PAR is a pure-Perl module.

Re: [rt.cpan.org #75193] [PATCH] Fix build on Win32/VC++

2012-02-23 Thread Roderich Schupp
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 23:09, Mark Dootson wrote: >> I read the pp code as concatenating chunks of the final exec onto itself > > I just checked latest code and there have been many updates in this area > since I last looked. There was some weird code in there that definitely modified the "inner