Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K

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

Not sure if this is a pertinent question, but being a new user please cut me some slack heh.

When attempting to compile 5.8.0 on a win2k box using the public release dmake and mingw32's included gcc i'm getting the following errors when it hits mini\win32.c

gcc -c -I.\include -I. -I.. -I..\lib\CORE -DWIN32 -DPERLDLL -DPERL_CORE -g -O2 -o.\mini\win32.o win32.c win32.c:66: conflicting types for `_wfdopen' c:/dev/mingw/include/stdio.h:364: previous declaration of `_wfdopen' win32.c: In function `win32_execvp': win32.c:3921: warning: passing arg 3 of `win32_spawnvp' from incompatible pointer type win32.c: In function `w32_DomainName': win32.c:4380: warning: passing arg 2 of 'WideCharToMultiByte' makes integer from pointer without a cast win32.c:4384: warning: passing arg 2 of 'WideCharToMultiByte' makes integer from pointer without a cast dmake.exe: Error code 1, while making '.\mini\win32.o'

I was just wondering if anyone else has run into this and found a quick fix, or a long fix, around this. This is the only OS I've really been having trouble building 5.8.0 with.

Thanks.
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Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 25, 2002 at 07:26 UTC
Are you using cygwin? Nevermind that. Use Borland's Free Compiler if you ain't got Visual Studio, or just download a binary from me, at http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz It's just the default compile (as far as I remember). I was also able to compile perl-5.8.0 with borland's free commandline tools, just so you know that that works ;) I wouldn't say it's the OS you've been having trouble with, but third party open source software ;) `____________________________________________________` ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.	[reply]
Re: Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by jordanh (Chaplain) on Sep 25, 2002 at 11:36 UTC
I've built 5.8.0 using cygwin. Built and tested, out of the box. There was a complaint in the test about some *dbm problem that I didn't track down. What's wrong with using cygwin? AFAICT, it's the best way to get a large set of CPAN modules working straight away. Most of the XS stuff has to be massaged for the VC builds and I would imagine this is the case with the Borland compiler as well. If you had a body of Perl that you needed to deploy on Unix and you wanted to do some development on W2K, I'd say that cygwin would be the way to go. Now, if you require a lot of Win32 modules that were developed under VC, I can see that, but, generally, I have few problems with cygwin.	[reply]
Re: Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by Adambomb (Initiate) on Sep 25, 2002 at 17:37 UTC
Thanks podmaster, using the borland free compiler worked fine, it appears you and courage were correct. most likely my installation of mingw32 was either outdated or running into one of the reasons mingw32 compilation support is noted as "experimental" heh. Thanks again to all who responded. ---------------------------- ice cream doesn't have teeth.	[reply]
Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by blm (Hermit) on Sep 25, 2002 at 05:42 UTC
I don't suppose you have acces to Visual Studio 6, do you? I have been able to compile perl 5.8 with Visual Studio 6 C++ using normal nmake on Windows 2000. I haven't as yet had much luck building stuff with mingw. I am using mingw with gcc version 3.2. What version gcc (with mingw) do you have? To find out type `gcc -v` or `gcc --version`. --blm--	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by Courage (Parson) on Sep 25, 2002 at 07:31 UTC
I think it could be something wrong with your installation of mingw, which is probably too old and unsupported? What is in that "stdio.h" file near mentioned line 364? Also, if a compiler explains about different declarations, try make it same or may be temporarily remove declaration of that function from win32.c. Courage, the Cowardly Dog	[reply]
Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by zaimoni (Beadle) on Sep 26, 2002 at 03:40 UTC
I use MingW32 as my dominant C/C++ compiler on Win95. MingW32 won't compile the Windows OS headers as-is. The problems have to do with wchar_t: this is a built-in type for MingW32, but a typedef (or worse) for MSVC++. I had to do some minor patches before I could compile my math AI project. I suspect the patches would be different for Win2000 than Win95. Also: what version of MingW32 are you on? Version 2.95.3-6 doesn't have _wfdopen anywhere in its stdio.h. I'd like to know if your version is later than that.	[reply]
Re: Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by Adambomb (Initiate) on Sep 27, 2002 at 17:58 UTC
Heh, I was using 2.0.0-3's included gcc, I upgraded gcc after getting the responses from podmaster and courage. Pretty sure that was the source of my problem, although I haven't tested the upgraded gcc yet since compiling with borlands free command line tools worked fine. ----------------------------- ice cream doesn't have teeth.	[reply]