Inline::C will no longer run

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

I was trying to fix a small program written in Inline::C when I found out that Inline would no longer compile with my installation of Cygwin. Here's the relevant portion of the errror (I think):

s_add_pl_98b8.o   /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.a  
i see no perl executable around there
perl is required to build dynamic libraries
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That's odd because I definitely have Perl and I haven't updated it recently. Further, the file referred to in that first line (libperl5_6_1.a) definitely exists in that path. I tried to reinstall Inline 0.43 over the top of an old install, but I was getting the same error messages during make test, so I halted the install and have assumed that Inline, in fact, is not the problem. I've included the full out.make file text below (yes, it's ugly -- sorry 'bout that).

/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Ex
+tUtils/typemap 
s_add_pl_98b8.xs > s_add_pl_98b8.xsc && mv s_add_pl_98b8.xsc s_add_pl_
+98b8.c
gcc -c -I/home/Ovid/inline -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DHAS_SBRK_PROTO -fn
+o-strict-aliasing
-DUSEIMPORTLIB -O2   -DVERSION=\"0.00\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.00\"  -I/usr/
+lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE 
s_add_pl_98b8.c
Running Mkbootstrap for s_add_pl_98b8 ()
chmod 644 s_add_pl_98b8.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll
LD_RUN_PATH="" ld2 -o blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll  
+-s -L/usr/local/lib
s_add_pl_98b8.o   /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.a  
i see no perl executable around there
perl is required to build dynamic libraries
go fetch one or build this one static
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/s_add_pl_98b8/s_add_pl_98b8.dll] Error 1
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Anyone know what I'm missing, or is there something else I should provide for debugging?

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: Inline::C will no longer run by samtregar (Abbot) on Jul 02, 2002 at 15:43 UTC
Quick guess: is perl.exe not in your PATH? For the real answer, post your question to the Inline mailing-list. If there's an answer they'll have it. -sam	[reply]
Re: Inline::C will no longer run by rbc (Curate) on Jul 02, 2002 at 18:33 UTC
I have never used Inline::C but this ... `LD_RUN_PATH=""` [download] ... jumps out at me. Also I don't know if this is the case with Cygwin but I have ran into problems on Solaris where my perl was a symbolic link to the actual executable and I need the path to the actual executable for some reason. If all else fails check out the cygwin mailing list archieve. They (Cygwin) are pretty good at fixing any problems users find. Good luck!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Inline::C will no longer run by mattr (Curate) on Jul 04, 2002 at 14:00 UTC
Just thinking about some recent cygwin-perl quirks.. Is it possible that you could have a shares/permissions problem? Does it persist if you use /cygdrive/C/cygwin/usr/lib pathname format? Possibly the make script is not resolving -L/usr/local/lib correctly? By the way was that you or did someone else have the same problem? I see the CPAN page does note cygwin fails. Strange the Changelog says it works on all perl versions, a year ago. My Activestate bad? Sorry I can't be of more help. Usually on linux. (/me nukes linux laptop by trying to install redhat base onto a suse layout)	[reply]
Re: Inline::C will no longer run by flounder99 (Friar) on Jul 05, 2002 at 13:08 UTC
I had the same problem. I think it happened when I built perl 5.8.0-RC1. All I did to fix the problem is `rm /usr/bin/ld2` It is a shell script wrapper around `ld` I think that it got overwritten when I built the new perl RC. It had some weird paths in it, pointing to the directories where I built the RC. I don't know why since I never installed the RC. Anyway, I deleted it and it seems to have been re-created when I re-installed Inline. -- flounder	[reply] [d/l] [select]