Hi. I am working an XS tutorial example http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlxstut.html#EXAMPLE_4 which has you build a teeny library and build an XSUB (the perl extension, located in a .xs file). When I get to running "make", I run into a snag. Prior to this, when I run "perl Makefile.PL", I do get these warnings:

                      Warning (non-fatal): Target 'dynamic' depends on
+ targets in skipped section 
                      'dy'
                      Processing Makefile 'dynamic_bs' section
                      Processing Makefile 'dynamic_lib' section
                      Processing Makefile 'static' section
                      Warning (non-fatal): Target 'static' depends on 
+targets in skipped section 
                      'sta
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Then, when I run "make" the following appears:

                      $ make
                      mkdir ./blib
                      mkdir ./blib/lib
                      mkdir ./blib/arch
                      mkdir ./blib/arch/auto
                      mkdir ./blib/arch/auto/Mytest2
                      mkdir ./blib/lib/auto
                      mkdir ./blib/lib/auto/Mytest2
                      mkdir ./blib/man3
                      cp Mytest2.pm ./blib/lib/Mytest2.pm
                      AutoSplitting ./blib/lib/Mytest2.pm (./blib/lib/
+auto/Mytest2)
                      cd mylib && make LIB="" LIBPERL_A="libperl.a" LI
+NKTYPE="dynamic" 
                      PREFIX="/usr/l"
                      cc -c -O -DVERSION=\"0.10\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.10\
+" -Kpic 
                      -I/usr/local/libc
                      "./mylib.h", line 3: warning: const is a keyword
+ in ANSI C
                      "./mylib.h", line 3: syntax error before or at: 
+const
                      "./mylib.h", line 3: warning: undefined or missi
+ng type for: const
                      "mylib.c", line 9: syntax error before or at: co
+nst
                      "mylib.c", line 9: undefined or not a type: cons
+t
                      "mylib.c", line 9: cannot recover from previous 
+errors
                      *** Error code 10
                      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `my
+lib.o'
                      Current working directory /usr/home/judyf/perlwo
+rk/Mytest2/mylib
                      *** Error code 1
                      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `my
+lib/libmylib.a'
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From the looks of that, it seems like it's not seeing the local typemap even though I specified the full path to it in MakeMaker (in Makefile.PL, namely:

                      'TYPEMAPS' => '/home/juda/perlwork/Mytest2/typem
+ap',
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I should mention that an incomplete perl installation was initially performed on this Solaris 2.5.1 box and the sysadmin recently re-installed after I noticed that key componments were missing. He installed perl5.00405. When I type "perl 'V" it lists:

                      $ perl -V
                      Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion
+ 5) configuration:
                      Platform:
                      osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-sola
+ris
                      uname='sunos betaman.portsoft.com 5.5.1 generic_
+103640-26 sun4u sparc 
                      sunw,'
                      hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=def
+ine
                      bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
                      Compiler:
                      cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
                      cppflags=''
                      ccflags =''
                      stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usev
+fork=false
                      intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=undef, doublesize
+=undef
                      alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
                      Linker and Libraries:
                      ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
                      libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
                      libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
                      libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so
                      useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
                      Dynamic Linking:
                      dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, c
+cdlflags=' '
                      cccdlflags='-Kpic', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/l
+ib'


                      Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
                      Built under solaris
                      @INC:
                      /usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00405
                      /usr/local/lib/perl5
                      /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris
                      /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
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My understanding is that a lot of the perl stuff is intertwined where the installed perl and the extension development environment is concerned. I am suspicious that it might have something to do with our local perl setup since this XSUB example is very basic, the equivalent of "Hello, world" to run from a C library, called from perl. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Juda