Under StrawberryPerl I'm having some difficulty building Win32::Exe and I'd like to get opinions from those more familiar with XS-using modules than I am.

Here's what the distribution package contains, in tree format, after I did a 'make clean'.


Win32-Exe-0.17-0/
|--Changes
|--MANIFEST
|--META.yml
|--Makefile.PL
|--Makefile.old
|--README
|--insert
|  |--InsertResourceSection.xs
|  |--Makefile.PL
|  |--Makefile.old
|  |--t
|  |  |--0-load.t
|  |  `--1-basic.t
|  `--typemap
|--lib
|  `--Win32
|     |--Exe
|     |  |--Base.pm
|     |  |--DataDirectory.pm
|     |  |--DebugDirectory.pm
|     |  |--DebugTable.pm
|     |  |--IconFile.pm
|     |  |--InsertResourceSection.pm
|     |  |--Manifest
|     |  |  `--Parser.pm
|     |  |--Manifest.pm
|     |  |--PE
|     |  |  |--Header
|     |  |  |  |--PE32.pm
|     |  |  |  `--PE32Plus.pm
|     |  |  `--Header.pm
|     |  |--PE.pm
|     |  |--Resource
|     |  |  |--GroupIcon.pm
|     |  |  |--Icon.pm
|     |  |  |--Manifest.pm
|     |  |  `--Version.pm
|     |  |--Resource.pm
|     |  |--ResourceData.pm
|     |  |--ResourceEntry
|     |  |  |--Id.pm
|     |  |  `--Name.pm
|     |  |--ResourceEntry.pm
|     |  |--ResourceTable.pm
|     |  |--Section
|     |  |  |--Code.pm
|     |  |  |--Data.pm
|     |  |  |--Debug.pm
|     |  |  |--Exports.pm
|     |  |  |--Imports.pm
|     |  |  `--Resources.pm
|     |  `--Section.pm
|     `--Exe.pm
|--script
|  `--exe_update.pl
`--t
   |--0-pod.t
   |--1-basic.t
   |--2-icon.t
   |--3-manifest.t
   |--4-execupdate.t
   |--application.xml
   |--empty.xml
   |--hd.ico
   |--par.ico
   |--winexe32.exe
   `--winexe64.exe

The error in the make step is this:

gcc -c -std=c99 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DMULTIPLICITY
+ -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -fwrapv -f
+no-strict-aliasing -mms-bit fields -O2 -DVERSION=\"0.17\" -DXS_VERSIO
+N=\"0.17\" "-ID:\SBP\perl\lib\CORE" InsertResourceSection.c
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

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I'm trying not to post too much from the screen so I'll just show this context for the error:

Running Mkbootstrap for InsertResourceSection ()
"D:\SBP\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod -- 644 "Insert
+ResourceSection.bs"
"D:\SBP\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e cp_nonempty -- I
+nsertResourceSection.bs ..\blib\arch\auto\Win32\Exe\InsertResourceSec
+tion\InsertResourceSection.bs 644
"D:\SBP\perl\bin\perl.exe" "D:\SBP\perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -typemap
+ D:\SBP\perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap C:\Users\somia\build\straw
+berry-perl\Win32-Exe-0.17-0\insert\typemap InsertResourceSection.xs >
+ InsertResourceSection.xsc
"D:\SBP\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command -e mv -- InsertResource
+Section.xsc InsertResourceSection.c

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So the obvious thing to do is to look at the file tree for InsertResourceSection.c and it's at Win32-Exe-0.17-0/insert/InsertResourceSection.c. That's why I say there's "Funny business." ;-(

Jun 04, 2025 at 21:09 UTC

In reply to Funny-business with Win32 extension module build by Intrepid

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