I thought I would add a caveat to this thread so others can find it.

I use the Perl API on Windows with Visual Studio C++. While moving from Perl 5.8 to 5.20 the Perl API headers generated compile time errors.

The first error was: 

c:\perl.5.20\lib\core\op_reg_common.h(58) : error C2144: syntax error 
+: 'void' should be preceded by ';'

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SE keywords: op_reg_common.h void preceded

Someone in the IRC irc.perl.org #xs chat channel referenced here. http://sourceforge.net/p/staf/support-requests/180/

Basically I needed to edit the config.h file from 

#define PERL_STATIC_INLINE static __inline__    /**/

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to 
#define PERL_STATIC_INLINE static __inline    /**/

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I don't know why it wasn't defined with ifdefs for each compiler.

J.R. Heisey

In reply to Re^2: A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++ by JRHeisey
in thread A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++ by tachyon

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