Bulding libwin32 18 with bleedperl

alien_life_form has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings,

I am trying to build libwin32-18 with bleedperl (5.7.3).
The build process terminates with the following:

"Running Mkbootstrap for Win32::Internet ()"
    D:\bleedperl\bin\perl.exe -ID:\bleedperl\lib -ID:\bleedperl\lib -M
+ExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 Internet.bs
    D:\bleedperl\bin\perl.exe "-ID:\bleedperl\lib" "-ID:\bleedperl\lib
+" -MExtUtils::Mksymlists  -e "Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"Win32::Internet\",
+ 'DLBASE' => 'Internet', 'DL_FUNCS' => {  }, 'FUNCLIST' => [], 'IMPOR
+TS' => {  }, 'DL_VARS' => []);"
    link -out:blib\arch\auto\Win32\Internet\Internet.dll -dll -nologo 
+-nodefaultlib -release  -libpath:"D:\bleedperl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x8
+6 Internet.obj   D:\bleedperl\lib\CORE\perl57.lib C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~
+4\VC98\LIB\wininet.lib -def:Internet.def
   Creating library blib\arch\auto\Win32\Internet\Internet.lib and obj
+ect blib\arch\auto\Win32\Internet\Internet.exp
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _strcmp
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__strncm
+p
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp___errno
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _VerQueryValu
+eA@16
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GetFileVersi
+onInfoA@16
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GetFileVersi
+onInfoSizeA@8
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__FileTi
+meToSystemTime@8
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _strlen
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _strcpy
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__Format
+MessageA@28
Internet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__GetMod
+uleHandleA@4
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __DllMainCRTStartup@1
+2
blib\arch\auto\Win32\Internet\Internet.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 12 u
+nresolved externals
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x460'
Stop.
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I think something's amiss in Makefile.PL, but I have no clue on what.

Does anybody know how to fix this?
Cheers,
alf

You can't have everything: where would you put it?

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Re: Bulding libwin32 18 with bleedperl by perlplexer (Hermit) on Apr 18, 2002 at 15:52 UTC
strlen(), strcpy(), strcmp()... Seems like nmake can't find MSVCRT (C runtime lib), which is rather strange... Try adding "C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\LIB\" to your PATH. If that doesnt work, try adding it to -libpath in the make file. Hope this helps. --perlplexer	[reply]
Re: Bulding libwin32 18 with bleedperl by alien_life_form (Pilgrim) on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:57 UTC
I found a fix: In Makefile.PL one needs to change the line that reads: `'LIBS' => [ ":nosearch ${inetlib}.lib" ],` [download] to read instead `'LIBS' => [ ":nosearch ${inetlib}.lib $Config{libs}" ],` [download] Which sort of fixes it. I doubt I am rather curing the symptom instead of the actual illness though. Cheers, alf You can't have everything: where would you put it?	[reply] [d/l] [select]