Hi,

I've often wondered whether, on Windows, *every* script that dies with a "handshake" error would actually have misbehaved if it had been allowed to continue.
If I had a build of perl that was identical, except that all "handshake" checks were avoided, then I'd be able to know ... and hence the question in the title.
(I'm fairly familiar with building perl on windows - no problems there. It's just a question of how to have a perl that doesn't run any of those pesky "handshake" checks.)

TBC, these "handshake" checks are the ones that result (upon failure) in the script aborting with a diagnostic of something like:
fu.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got first handshake key 0000000012e00080, needed 0000000012d00080)

AFTERTHOUGHT:
I suppose I don't really need to avoid them. Just making them "non-fatal on failure" might suffice.
Maybe having them emit warnings, as opposed to actually croaking, might suffice.
However, it would also be nice to avoid having to hack the perl source.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to How do I build perl on Windows such that all "handshake" checks are avoided ? by syphilis

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