Attempting to follow xmath's advice and try myself. Unfortunately, I'm out of my league with xs compilation errors. (I can build Date::Calc, so it's not an environment problem.)

Are there compiler options I'm missing?

>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.9466 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. cl -c -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSO +LE -DNO_S RICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_I +MPLICIT_S S -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION +=\"0.03_0 \" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.03_09\" "-IE:\Perl\lib\CORE" Alias.c Alias.c Alias.xs(1153) : warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'PADOFFSET' to ' +U16', pos ible loss of data Alias.xs(1458) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type' Alias.xs(1459) : error C2275: 'SV' : illegal use of this type as an ex +pression E:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl.h(1774) : see declaration of 'SV' Alias.xs(1459) : error C2065: '_da' : undeclared identifier Alias.xs(1459) : error C2065: '_dap' : undeclared identifier Alias.xs(1459) : error C2100: illegal indirection Alias.xs(1459) : error C2100: illegal indirection Alias.xs(1461) : warning C4047: '=' : 'int' differs in levels of indir +ection fr m 'SV ** ' Alias.xs(1461) : error C2100: illegal indirection Alias.xs(1461) : error C2223: left of '->sv_flags' must point to struc +t/union Alias.xs(1461) : warning C4047: 'function' : 'SV *' differs in levels +of indire tion from 'int' Alias.xs(1461) : error C2223: left of '->sv_any' must point to struct/ +union Alias.xs(1462) : error C2223: left of '->sv_any' must point to struct/ +union Alias.xs(1463) : error C2223: left of '->sv_any' must point to struct/ +union Alias.xs(1464) : error C2065: 'initialized' : undeclared identifier NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2' Stop. Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread uname='' config_args='undef' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip +licity=def ine useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D +_CONSOLE - DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT - +DPERL_IMPL ICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX', optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1', cppflags='-DWIN32' ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64 +', lseeksi ze=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -l +ibpath:"E: \Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib + comdlg32 .lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uui +d.lib wsoc k32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt. +lib perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool +.lib comd lg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib + uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msv +crt.lib libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib gnulibc_version='undef' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt: +ref,icf - libpath:"E:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL +_IMPLICIT_ CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 810 22751 Update to Test.pm 1.25 21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Jun 1 2004 11:52:21

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In reply to Re^2: RFC: Is there more to alias? by Solo
in thread RFC: Is there more to alias? by xmath

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