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in reply to Re^3: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin
in thread Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin

That did not work. Devel::Cover unsurprisingly needs access to the symbols during both build and run time. Tried it with a 5.8.8 because that's my existing installation with lots of modules I don't care to reinstall.

Instead I patched the current installation by building a Perl 5.8.8 with the exported symbols, and then:

cp perl58.dll \strawberry-perl\perl\bin\ cp lib\CORE\libperl58.a \strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE\

This is clearly a hack, not a long-term solution.

What that solution is I don't know. But I imagine either

Damn, that was a lot of yak shaving to start doing interesting things!

/J