After reading the interesting Testaholics thread I downloaded Devel::Cover and tried to make it on my Windows 2000 with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1. It failed.

Well, I should have expect that, if I had read the test reports on CPAN. Did anybody managed to get this running?

I tried to fix it ...

As I investigated, it is after all because of the absence of the gettimeofday() function for the C-part.

After some search I found the _ftime() function, which gives the same functionality. So I wrote a wrapper-function GetTimeOfDay() which called _ftime(), defined HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY and run nmake. This step worked now.

Now I run nmake test, which failed for every test! So I tried nmake testdb TEST_FILE=t\aalias.t to see what is happening and found this working. What does that mean?

I am not sure wether it makes sense to go any further, as my time is limited. But if anybody has a hint or did try the same thing...

I did not post any code, it was just a quick hack, nothing to be proud of. If I am able to create a working patch, of course the author gets a note.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

In reply to Devel::Cover on Windows? by Brutha

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