I don't know the solution to the CDB_File error

Well, I now know part of the solution. I asked about 'Perl_report_uninit' on the xs mailing list and Jan Dubois replied as follows:

"Perl_report_uninit() is not a public Perl API, so extensions are not allowed to call it. On Linux this cannot be enforced as all internal symbols are being exported anyways, but on Windows (and AIX) you can only call APIs that are marked as 'public' in the embed.fnc file in the core Perl distribution."

However it seems that calling Perl_report_init() does the same as 'warn("Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry");' - so I replaced the 4 instances of Perl_report_init() in CDB_File.xs with precisely that. On linux, with those changes in place, the module still builds and tests fine. However, on Win32, although it now builds fine, there are still some failures in the test suite - probably because my handling of 'fsync'. For that, all I did was insert '#define fsync _commit' near the beginning of CDB_File.xs, but apparently that is not good enough.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: Weird problems building Scalar-List-Utils-1.18 on Win32+MinGW by syphilis
in thread Weird problems building Scalar-List-Utils-1.18 on Win32+MinGW by bart

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